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[Loud Whispers]

Gigaplotwist: Futurama is the golden age of mankind, Fry is the Emperor [which explains the idiocy and extreme luck], the war against the iron people was actually a war against the million benders e.t.c.

[Putnam]

The laptop I'm on starts to overheat (I'm gauging that by the CPU reaching 80 C)  while playing a game.

The game in question is Morrowind. Morrowind. This is a Windows 7 computer. Modern. I mean, yeah, it has no graphics card and runs on a Core i3, but come on.

EDIT: The laptop, based on the date of the processor's introduction, is at most 3 years old. Come on!

[Skyrunner]

You had it at "no graphics card". If you have a bad video card, it's possible the cpu has to do calculations it would normally shunt off for the video card to do and work very hard. Sadly, the poor cpu isn't as good as the video card in certain things like vertex calculation.

[Putnam]

It's still an 11-year-old game running on a 3-year-old system. Even worse, considering that it normally runs really, really well until it starts overheating.

[Frumple]

It's still an 11-year-old game running on a 3-year-old system. Even worse, considering that it normally runs really, really well until it starts overheating.

Yeesss... sometimes older games don't run too well, even on modern systems. Especially considering a lot of the lower end modern systems have been kinda'... stagnant... for the last several years. Hard drive space going up and multicores becoming more common, but raw CPU power and RAM and whatnot just sort of hovering.

Also, your core I3 has an integrated GPU (integrated video cards are notoriously shitty!) and going from intel's site the highest processor speed among them is 2 ghz. Two. Highest. Dual-core, yes, but morrowind isn't multithreaded. Still over MW's system reqs, but especially since it's a newer (heavier, regarding system resources) OS...

Basically, going forward, don't really consider the comparative ages of the game vs. hardware as assurance of performance. Check hardware vs. system reqs, and whenever possible... demo. Because both of those lie, sometimes.

[Putnam]

No, the performance is goddamn amazing, considering all that you said. Over 30 FPS at all times. It overheats, though.

[Frumple]

Ah.

Yeah. That's a laptop thing.

Just as a kind of... general rule. Laptops overheat when the CPU runs at any meaningful capacity for, like. A few minutes or whatever. Always and forever. No one seems able to design one with good heat dissipation. Least I've never had one that had it. I've literally burnt off some of my flesh on some of my laptops.

Kept it running anyway. To hell with electrical fires directly over my groin, gaming forward!

[Putnam]

yeah my morrowang le chim>casuel skyrem

oh god remind me never to stay up to 5 am again

[LordSlowpoke]

yeah my morrowang le chim>casuel skyrem

oh god remind me never to stay up to 5 am again

late night posting is the best kind of posting and you should stay up to 5am more often

not only you are amused, people around you are being amused also

[Xantalos]

What the fuck? I fell asleep at 11 and woke up at 5:30 and now I can't get back to sleep.

[Dutchling]

What the fuck? I fell asleep at 11 and woke up at 5:30 and now I can't get back to sleep.

It's a sign.

Your deity of choice wants you to look at pictures of cats on the internet.

[Graknorke]

What the fuck? I fell asleep at 11 and woke up at 5:30 and now I can't get back to sleep.

It's a sign.

Your deity of choice wants you to look at pictures of cats on the internet.

I'm pretty sure that Xantalos is GenDisc's deity of choice.

[Dutchling]

So apparently there is a Wikipedia for boobs.

With valuable information.

[Graknorke]

So apparently there is a Wikipedia for boobs.

With valuable information.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:GreatTit002.jpg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Now_that%27s_a_great_pair_of_tits.jpg

EDIT: In a WTF completely unrelated to tits (as far as I know), Powerpuff Girls was made into an anime. This is not something that I knew.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

KOJIMA!