I've been both busy with work and lazy in getting these out. I spent most of my free time last week writing a thank you letter to Louis Rossmann, briefly catching up on e-mails and messages that I needed to make, and replaying through Undertale.
The first time I played it was two years ago—on the very MacBook that I'm writing this post on along with the first chapter of Deltarune slightly over a month later. Unfortunately, I went in knowing Undertale's unique style of gameplay in which every encounter matters and has an impact on everything hereafter. Instead of being freaked out by particular spoilers, I was left impressed with how Toby Fox made those scenes happen both in narrative and execution—or rather, the whole thing flows rather brilliantly. Goes without saying that the soundtrack is a wonderful thing, both knowing it beforehand and while actually playing the game.
It ran well on the MacBook aside from motherboard getting hot and I couldn't heard the fan spin. They spun when I booted up the other game I played on it, Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri, which I bought off of Good Old Games during a sale. I remember playing that one growing up alongside Civilization II and Civilization II: The Test of Time for hours at a time. My dad was, and still is, big on the Civilization games and has been known to play the fifth iteration quite often.
Most of my gaming has been relegated over to the Switch for reasons that go without saying. I also don't like to risk playing games more exciting than DOS emulations or Undertale on my MacBook—or least for a lengthy duration. I always had this fear, even before Louis Rossmann did surgery on Apple computers, that any sort of extreme heat would kill the entire laptop. When I was fourteen, the desktop HP that I had wasn't powering on. When my Dad took it apart and tried to turn it on, the power supply made this crackling sound and there was a brief flash of blue from it. The sound I clearly remember, but the visual details are slightly blurry—I'm uncertain that there was smoke involved—but it freaked me out enough that I worried about any future laptops getting hot for an extended period of time. I also worried about dust as the power supply's interior was caked in it.
There's a series in the weekly zine, 1324: Out of Order, where Ivenne talks about her experience in getting Fall Guys to successfully run on an old laptop—starting in the second issue and ending in the fourth. I'm also going to link the zine's Twitter page, which where I would recommend following them for updates on future issues. If you're coming from Twitter, you'll know that I'm biased towards the zine and its creator and if you do like what you read there, please consider supporting Ivenne over on Patreon.
I know I said on Twitter that this entry would be more political, but the muse wasn't having any of that. In fairness, most of how I feel with regards to the current climate is summarized in this tweet...
Been waiting for these two pins all week—a set that compliments one another perfectly. (The Ice Cream pin’s out of shot. Also, pardon the glare.)#RidinWithBiden pic.twitter.com/bioJ1MriZu
— Bryan Mitchell (B.M. Mitchell)🧢 (@PromptedInk) October 23, 2020
I didn't expect the pins to be huge, but I made a space for them nonetheless. I'm trying to save space in the case for the pin from Strictly Limited's Turrican Anthology—the collector's edition—for the day it arrives in the post.
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