So, apparently Erratic didn’t agree with me about the game Borderlands, making sharp fun of me in his rebuttal to my review of the game. Instead, he recommended you play some older but still good games. I agree. Those game are good. But so is Borderlands.
That’s the thing about getting old like Erratic. Change is bad to these guys. They are set in their ways, they like their prune juice a certain temperature and eat dinner at 4:30 PM to catch the early bird special (so they can be asleep by 9). It’s cute, really it is. Oh, there is something you need to know about his two paragraph plus once sentence post – it took him almost three hours to write it.
Isn’t it cute how the senior citizens try?
Regardless, he does have some very good input when he’s agreeing with me. Now, on with the rest of the post.
Until recently, all my gaming experience has been with my tower. I was lucky enough to come into possession of a used laptop at a very good price. This laptop can game – not that well but it does run Call of Duty 4 perfectly. I’ve found that having a laptop that is game capable, well, liberating to say the least.
Let’s picture this scenario. You are invited to a lan party. All right! A weekend in a basement playing all your favorite games, not showering, and eating nothing but sugar and trans fats. Awesome! You get your tower out. You unplug every wire for the back, roll them up, secure them with elastic bands and put them in your bag. You then pick up your tower. You almost drop it carrying it up the stairs. You almost drop it again while opening the door. You swear. You put it in the trunk. You are about to go in the door when you realize you need to secure it before you destroy a hard drive like last time. You load the rest of your stuff. You get to the party. You set your machine up after finding the appropriate space. The fattest guy sets up next to you, hogs half the table and can’t stop farting.
Six and a half hours later, you’re starting to game!
Now that you got that in your head, let’s picture another scenario. You take your gaming laptop. You put it in your laptop backpack. You go to your party (stopping at the store for snacks). You don’t drop the laptop because it’s secured on your back, leaving your hands free to open doors, carry bags full of chips and pop, and so on. You get to your table, take up almost no space, and you’re ready to start gaming 2 minutes after you sit down.
Your friends are still arguing about how many plugs they need because there’s not enough power bars to go around. You smile, go out and get more snacks, and are warming up with a little pre-lan gaming while one guy is trying to figure out if 3 1/2″ of space between his tower and keyboard is enough room to operate his mouse.
And that, my friends, is logic not even old grumpy Erratic can refute.
Related posts:
- 5 Things you really need to attend a LAN party Spaz, in his last post, listed 5 things he found...
- The five things every serious gamer needs Back in the early 00′s, I went to my first...
Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.
