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Re: Unrelated: I finally got a new computer, almost two years

Posted by Tabernacles E. Townsfolk (@billstrudel) on Oct. 20, 2025, 10:40 a.m.

Cool! Prebuilt from Dell or Lenovo or something, I’m guessing? Specs, or a website or something?

I completed two-thirds of Avernum 2 and then took a break to play something else. When I returned, I found that I had forgotten where the hell I had left my boat up north and decided to move on rather than to explore every map square, in treacherous territory no less. I staeted a game of Avernum 3 to be played straight, no cheating with character editor, but with a walkthrough since time matters in that one. I made it past the first quest and I’ve been idling on that save since, waiting until I have a good chunk of time.

My front-burner games have been Final Fantasy V and Assassin’s Creed: Odyssey, which is the one set in fifth-century Greece. I’ve completed the first island of that game and have just gotten the ship and my save sits there. I’ve wanted to play again, but I need to either get my graphics card RMA’d or wait until Christmas money to buy a new RX 9070 XT over my old/current last-gen-same-level RX 7800 XT. I’d rather get the replacement for free minus return shipping m so I’d better get started on that. I think the gralgics-card stand I was using from breaking the PCIe socket by sagging in it, had bent the graphics card’s connector by being set too high so it went all NES-Game-Genie on me and won’t work in any position other than the one it had gotten propped up in.

Until I can get the graphics card replaced I have the integrated graphics on my CPU, which should be enough to be old Final Fantasy and the HD-2D Dragon Quest I & II remake when that comes out. After that I might juggle FF6 and the Dragon Quest 7 remake once that comes out and I beat Assassin’s Creed. Then Avernum.Cyberpunk 2077 at some point.

On the side I’m playing a few games ofMagic: the Gathering: Arena and I’ve been beating up on fellow PvP beginners, but damn is that gane loaded up on in-app transactions (as you may expect).