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I loved dessert strike as a kid. I had a giant sketch pad that I’d map out every level in.

re: Gaming laptop advice

Posted by TTownTiger on 11/16/25 at 11:38 am to
In 2021, I bought a 3080 Lenovo legion 7i. i can still play pretty much anything that I want with mods added in. I cannot run ultra setting on most new games from within the past year. But, with medium-high setting and with Reshade to make the graphics pop, I can still hit 50-60 fps on pretty much any new demanding games. If it isn't a demanding game, I can still hit triple digits with high-ultra settings.

I am missing out on a lot of the DLSS & Ray tracing improvements that started coming out with the 4 Series cards, so if you suffer FOMO that is something you'll have to consider as cards/tech get better.

I do not play multiplayer first person shooters, so can't discuss those. I am strictly single player FWIW. Sports games are always easy to run:
WWE 2k25 maxed settings with a Reshade - 60 FPS (game limits at 60 FPS max)

NBA 2k26 max settings with Reshade - 65+ FPS

F1 25 high-ultra mix settings with Reshade and Lossless Scaling Frame Gen - 70-75 FPS

Others:

Final Fantasy XVI: Med-high mix with Reshade - 50 FPS during the crazy cut scenes. 70+ in less demanding scenes.

Final Fantasy remakes - 70+ Fps on high setting with Reshade

I was hitting 65+ FPS on Cyberpunk with Reshade and 30+ mods added on.

Alan Wake 2 (very demanding): 45-50 FPS on medium setting and Reshade.

Claire Obscur: I believe I was at a high-ultra mix with Reshade and getting 65-75 fps.

No issues with ports: Ghost of Tushima, God of War, Horizon.

I had about 3 years of being able to ultra most games with mods and reshades added in. Now I'm mixing setting between medium-ultra. I'll probably start looking to upgrade when the 6-Series laptops come out.

Edit: wanted to specify that I run reshade on everything and mods on everything if there are mods worth a damn for the game. Those can often lower FPS. So those FPS numbers above include both Reshade and in some cases mods.


One character is kinda expected to be your damage dealer. It's pretty obvious who that is when you have the full team. But pretty much everyone else is wide open on how you want to use them - damage or support.

And since every character gets a ton of weapon choices each with different buffs and everyone can be respec'd from scratch fairly often, you aren't locked in to specific builds. You can trial & error until you determine what works best for you.

I had one character who dealt nuclear damage to one enemy from the start of each fight, one who could deal above average damage to multiple enemies but needed a couple of turns for their weapon to meet the correct damage dealing criteria, and then my third character was strictly support to set up the other two.
He thought his cruise ship was leaving him, so he ran after it like a jackass. That wasn't his cruise. The correct boat was the one still at the dock. The end of the gif is someone telling him thats not his boat and then pointing him to the correct one (that he conveniently ran right past to chase down the wrong one).
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Suneater is turning into one of my all time favs.


I'll try again at some point but I found the first book starts out painfully boring (it might be the audiobook - wasnt a fan of the narrators monotone). I put it away earlier this week to start the First Law Trilogy.
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Joe’s Stone Crab


+1000
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“ Dave rutabaugh is an ignorant scoundrel. I disapprove of his very existence.”
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I still remember the FMV intro where dude kept calling you "dog meat."


Love Sewer Shark. I still play it from time to time. I am a sucker for those old Sega CD FMV games like SS, Ground Zero Texas, Tomcat Alley, etc...
What year was Waterworld? I thought that was considered the biggest flop ever at the time of its release?
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Turn your brain off if you’re an F1 fan


Just got out. It was a decent popcorn flick, but damn you have to suspend all disbelief at the racing scenes. It isn't sharks in the colosseum bad, but it is eye rolling bad if you want anything that resembles real racing or for anything F1 related.
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Bowe - Holyfield


If you had linked this to round 10 of their first fight, you'd be on to something. Great round! But mentioning it with a pic of Fan Man ruined it. That round was memorable for all the wrong reasons.

Morales vs Barrera had numerous rounds that would be in the run for top 10 best round status.

re: Xbox Handheld made by ROG

Posted by TTownTiger on 6/17/25 at 8:53 pm to
I just bought the Lenovo Legion Go S with SteamOS and the Z1E chip earlier today. It comes in on Thursday. Pretty pumped.

re: Xbox Handheld made by ROG

Posted by TTownTiger on 6/9/25 at 6:06 pm to
Too often I'm sitting on the sofa next to Mrs TTown playing Slay the Spire or Balatro on my tablet while she watches something on the tv that I'm not too invested in. I very recently started looking at handhelds to pass that time.

I'm interested, but doubt I'm holding off till the holidays for this. Probably just grab a Steam Deck instead of waiting.
Enjoyed this. Echo everyone else: 1st two acts were great but the third act was meh. Didn't care for the final act either.

So outstanding first half, meh second half.


SPOLiERS in the paragraph about the final act: I'm not caught up with what's considered canon in the Predator universe, but from what I know they were big game hunters going after the most dangerous prey that they can locate. If their chosen hunter goes down during the hunt, they paid respect to the surviving "prey" that defeated the hunter. SPOILERS FOR KILLER OF KILLERS: The fact they've actually been abducting the survivors to make them fight each other in gladiator type games really cheapens their mystique, imo.

re: Anyone here play Balatro?

Posted by TTownTiger on 4/29/25 at 3:45 pm to
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Guess I should have been more clear. It is playable on mobile through Game Pass, just not with touch screen. I'm not a fan of using a controller with my phone.


I bought this for my iPad a few days ago. I assume it's available for iPhone too. I have an android phone and see it in the app store for $9.99. You sure it's not available on your mobile?

No controller needed on tablet.
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My only complaint is the twist with Coop stealing the money only to be his dad seemed unnecessary.


Haven't seen this movie in quite a few years. Remind me again why Coop stole the money. If Mav wins the tourney, why was it necessary for the theft? Maybe it's discussed when they meet up in the Spa afterwards, but I don't recall the specifics.
Being mentioned in GOTY discussion in most reviews.
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Why are they wanting to kill Joel? I may have missed it


Did you watch episode 1? The first 10 minutes of the episode was that group talking about killing Joel for revenge for what he did to the Fireflies.
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lexus in new orleans has a handful available


Dealerships in Texas are starting to have them available too.