If you're desperate for more Baldur's Gate 3, here's a 6-hour mini-campaign all about Astarion with 4 different endings and 6 new companions

Help or hinder BG3's vampire elf as he tangles with a Bastellus in A Dream of Silence.

https://www.pcgamer.com/games/baldurs-gate/if-youre-desperate-for-more-baldurs-gate-3-heres-a-6-hour-mini-campaign-all-about-astarion-with-4-different-endings-and-6-new-companions/

#gaming #games #videogames #BG3 #Astarion #campaign #vampireelf #DreamsOfSilence #companions #Bastellus #PlayStation #Xbox #PC [PCGamer]

Der Speicherkrise entkommen durch gebrauchte Notebooks und PCs | c’t uplink

SSDs und RAM werden vermutlich auf Jahre teuer bleiben – was Gebrauchtrechner interessant macht. Der Podcast geht ausführlich auf Risiken und Chancen ein.

https://www.heise.de/news/Der-Speicherkrise-entkommen-durch-gebrauchte-Notebooks-und-PCs-c-t-uplink-11421240.html?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.mastodon.mastodon.md_beitraege.md_beitraege&utm_source=mastodon

#Speicher #ct #ctuplink #IT #Notebooks #PC #SSD #news

The Silent Age (Multi, XP'd on PC) Joe the janitor gets tangled up in the strange goings on at his company's lab, and needs to travel through time to save the world.

Bought this (likely on sale) over a decade ago and somehow never got to it till today, lol.

This is a pretty short (4hrs or so) and simple point and click. For as old as it is (think it first launched in 2012?) it's got good production values. Decent voice acting, simple but effective art style, good writing, good story.

The main "gimmick" here is using the time travel to get around obstacles in various ways. The most obvious of which is: door closed in the future? Travel back and pass through it in the past. It's a neat little trick and used various ways to good effect.

TBH the puzzles in this game are pretty heavily on the "easy" side for this genre, which is why it ends up being a 4hr single session playthrough. Which I don't mind, it's a nice break after 40 hrs of turn based battling in Expedition 33. Also because it's "so old", it'll run on a fucking potato, which meant my PC was super overkill for it, 4K 120fps (monitor refresh rate, prob could have run 300fps) 🤣

All in all I enjoyed the experience and think it's well worth the $10USD on Steam and it goes on sale fairly often which makes it a steal at half price or even less. 👍

#Gaming #VideoGames #ShareYourGames #PC #Steam #LinuxPC

https://thesilentage.com/

So I rolled credits on Clair Obscur yesterday.

.. I mean it's good, but I don't think it's a "masterpiece" or GOTY material. There was nothing "groundbreaking", which isn't a requirement or anything, just.. well there's a decent amount of janky oddness that definitely is jarring. Cut scenes that are locked to 30fps in IDK what res but def not the 4K I was playing it in, so they just didn't look right next to my gameplay. The facial animations are .. just wonky, fierce baring teeth grins, lips not synced to voice lines a lot, etc.

The battle mechanics were aight but nothing memorable other than <old man rant> timing windows that felt small even in Story (care bear) mode as well as some definite input lag screwing up my timing </old man rant>.

Story was decent, but as it progressed it sure did start to feel pretty cluttered up with all the side stuff. And I mean (again, old man here, 40+ years gaming now) there weren't any story beats that surprised me.

But, the overall package is still good. Good voice acting, great music, great art and character design.. esp from a smaller team. I'm not regretting my purchase or the nearly 40 hours I spent on it at all, and I'm looking forward to whatever they come out with next.

Also it did play excellently well on my Linux PC, which is always nice.

#Gaming #VideoGames #ShareYourGames #PC #LinuxPC #GarudaBroadwing

Hai! Friendly reminder to check out my listings for the GPUs i have for sale right now, I'm running out of hardware to sell at this point so be sure to get what you can while you still can!

RX 570 4gb:
https://www.tradera.com/item/341372/745833543/sapphire-nitro-radeon-rx-570-4gb-gddr5

Quadro 600:
https://www.tradera.com/item/341372/745834868/nvidia-quadro-600-grafikkort

#stockholm #forsale #GPU #geforce #radeon #gaming #pc #graphics #pcparts #sweden #sverige #game #mobile #samsung #phone #raspberrypi #SBC

be gon, thermal throttling.
#pc #minipc #homelab #noctua

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mini pc with a noctua fan mounted to the top to get rid of thermal throttle