The insides of this computer haven't been touched since Quarantine with the addition of a 3080, which was the right time to have a good card. Everything else in this shitbox, what the ragged youth of my street would call a Potato, is from years before that. I'm actually in a position to take advantage of Hardware Accelerated GPU Scheduling precisely because it's so decrepit elsewhere. I'll Fuck Around in an .ini, and Find Out about marginal gains. I was up in Borderland's guts before I ever even made a character, it ran goof troop, and then when I reset to defaults it played great. PC Gaming, folks! PC motherfuckin' gaming.

It's been a while since I have been up this late playing games. In my mind, I was getting B4 to play it cooperatively. I have tried and failed to play through one of these in the past because a) I felt strongly that playing it with other people was the correct way and b) the other people in question were always a rough assemblage of ne'er-do-wells, blaggards, and low rogues who could not schedule their own ass with two hands and a flashlight. This time I'm just playing it myself and having a good fucking time. For me, that means not comparing loot when its on the ground. This is akin to counting your money when you're sitting at the table, which The Gambler has firm edicts against. I go to a place and turn every White icon Blue and every Blue icon Green, like I'm hitting the highest rated Phở spots on Yelp. I like Hand Cannons and Sniper Rifles. They either don't see me or I'm the last thing they do. Open World is a very good look for Borderlands and the writing is a hundred times less annoying, dare I say verging into… good?!

I think I want to explore the higher settings though, but I am simply too white trash to pay two thousand dollars for a videocard. I understand that times have changed and that nVidia's primary business is making silicon mindbrains for abominable intelligences, and that commands a premium because it's a necessary step in converting the human race into a global herd. But I'm just congenitally unable to purchase something like that for myself. Also, last time I read about 5090s it seemed like it was basically like installing a flaregun in your PCIe. I can grit my teeth for a grand, though. My Vintage is such that I would have just trusted AnandTech to tell me what was up, I don't really know who to trust anymore in the age of SEO. An afternoon project, then.

(CW)TB out.