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Some old, but free ones to try: battle for Wesnoth and MegaGlest. First is turn based 2d strategy, the second is real time 3d. Simple graphics but what I love is the open-source fan support that's let them grow into decent games, with loads of extra content.

What's your field? I think the viva was the second most scared I've been in my life, after my wedding. Do enjoy it if you can, though, it will probably be the last time in your life you can talk for hours, in detail about your work to an audience that cares AND understands. I always think they...

Skyrim, Valheim, Dark Souls & Black Mesa are main main go to games so far. Most worked perfectly out of the box, except perhaps Valheim, which I tweaked to better use the menu system and Black Mesa which needed a few keys changing. Skyrim used a fan-made profile, which is really nice: when you...

Surely you can't be serious?

I never had a switch but mine has surprised me - I've taken to gaming with it at home, downstairs, just so I spend more time with my wife - sure we're doing different stuff but we chat and we wouldn't if I was upstairs on the PC. I also use it for things I didn't expect like watching stuff on...

From the (admittedly few) steam reviews, it sounds like the GOG version is better.

If Gloomhaven is your thing, that conversion from boardgame works really well IMO (maybe because the boardgame was so complex and the PC version has a better tutorial)

I'm having a lot of trouble with the Steam servers at the moment - sure I'm not the only one on day 1 of the Summer sale. Think it might be time for Satisfactory, maybe the new Pathfinder one too and some TWWH2 dlc I was missing. If anyone spots some good bargains that are steamdeck verified...

Jameson for day to day, Lagavulin if I'm being posh (even had the Ron Swanson edition, once or twice)

This is why I get so frustrated shopping for PCs at almost anywhere but PCS (I sometimes have to for work kit as they have 'preferred suppliers'). The amount of places that will tell you how much RAM there is, but its impossible to find out the speed or they'll say how large the storage is but...

I have a Roccat Vulcan that's well past its best - maybe it's time to look for something new. It will have to be durable, though - can you get keyboards with reinforced WASD keys?

Windscribe was about the same, I must admit I didn't shop around much. I tried their free trial and it all did what it said on the tin, others seemed a similar price and I'd read some good reviews.

I've heard good things about Nord, I'm on Windscribe at the moment - always seems to work well for me and you can use it on multiple devices.

Hi All, I found a PC Specialist subreddit - not large, less than a thousand members. Link I was curious if this was run in tandem with the forum, or if any forum mods posted there or had started it. It states clearly that it is not a channel for support but uses the PCS logo etc.

I've just watched 'Clark', a Netflix series about the Stockholm syndrome guy. Not at all what I was expecting but really great. More of a funny take on an amazing life than a historically detailed biography. Would recommend.

Free weekend/66% off for State of Decay 2 on Steam: Juggernaut edition

As a Maths lecturer, our undergrads are rarely doing anything heavyweight enough to get significant benefit from this (I can't say that for sure, for you - Uni courses are not like A levels, curriculums vary a lot). If they do, it tends to be in final year/masters machine-learning modules or...

Took me a while to compress the images enough, but this is running on stock settings, no tweaks at all

Get the cheapest and expand with SD. Rationally, that's what I would have done, but at the time I'd had a pint or two and it was only a £5 deposit, so...

I got lucky and had the time to be online at the steam launch - it skipped a few times and dumped me out of the queue, but I was able to complete a reservation a few minutes after the start. Was originally Q1, got bumped to Q2 and then used the Reddit spreadsheet to guestimate my delivery (was...