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Not my Turning Point gaming rig OR $30 laptops are not good for gaming.
Aughndibi | 11:10 PM on 03.14.2008 5 comments


Well, here it is, my entry for the Turning Point PC contest.



There it is. I got it for roughly $30 from a very lucky bid on Silvertag.com. I can play some games on it, but not very well. I mostly use it for Warhammer 40K: Dawn of War (which runs okay if I turn everything down), and I would use it for Team Fortress 2, except that it can't run the game without crashing at random intervals. So, that was a waste of $30 (for TF2, I mean). :/



I do, however, have a bitchin' Futurama mousepad. I looked all over teh Internets for an official one, but the best one I could find was a custom job from eBay. I enjoy it thoroughly.



One last shot, from a different angle. I'm hoping to win this contest primarily for the ability to play three games: Team Fortress 2, Dawn of War 2 (which I'm pretty sure is going to use the Company of Heroes engine), and Warhammer Online (which I don't know the requirements for, other than the FAQ which says "The second best system for sale next summer"). I'm mostly a console gamer, but I would REALLY love to try Warhammer Online. I never got into WoW, mostly because I would feel a bit aimless playing it. Like, there's no overall goal for me other than to get phat lewt, or whatever. With Warhammer, however, there's more of a competitive nature to it, from what I've read. Also, Warhammer Online is Warhammer, which instantly makes me interested in it.



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Aziel13's Destructoid Blog
awesome mouse pad
TheToiletDuck's Destructoid Blog
i second your mouse pad choice.
Nad Crusher's Destructoid Blog
30 bucks? How'd you get that lucky?
Clockwork's Destructoid Blog
30 bucks? That looks pretty nice! Unless it gave you herpes or something.
Aughndibi's Destructoid Blog
To Nad Crusher: I have no clue. The funny thing is, when I won it from Silvertag, I was actually trying to win something else (a PS3, I think). You see, Silvertag gives you a limited amount of bids per day (40, I think). I used like, hundreds of bids on the PS3, and maybe ten on the laptop, and I won the laptop. Go figure.

To Clockwork: It didn't give me herpes, but it does pain me. It mocks me with its inability to play the games that I want to play. I know I can't look a gift horse in the mouth, but it's like, if it were only a LITTLE better...oh well.


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Hi there! I'm Andy, and I like to play on things that use electricity. I mostly make use of my Playing Station the Third, and I sometimes play Team Fortress the Second on my lapping top. I live in Michigan, and it sucks. I believe that I may currently be in the throes of a quarter-life crisis, if such a thing exists.

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