It’s still open for a other 40 hours.

Go here: https://www.gog.com/en/game/tropico_4 then clock the link that says go to giveaway.

I’m in pretty much the same boat. My past 2 laptops have been dell inspirons with a touchscreen. I use the touch screen for game programming to make sure touch events work. The one I got was $500, but probably should have gone a bit higher.

It has a i5 processor 16gb ram, 1 tb ssd. It does indeed run tf2, guild wars 2, and other not graphically intensive games. I’m satisfied and it does work well, but below are some of the negatives of my new laptop vs my old.

It’s missing key backlights, a fingerprint to unlock, and the bodyvis much more plastic and feels not as secure as my wife’s lenovo.

Be sure to check out pics for keyboard arrangement. My new laptop has a numberpad…which is nice, but the arrow keys got shrunk which is not nice for programming.

Be sure to check where the trackpad is. Centralized is better. My new one is more to the left and my wrist hits it when playing tf2 and I do occasionally get some movement from my wrist in game, but not much.

I picked money up from amazon.

That’s very awesome of you kind sir/ma’am. I would be interested in #5 spiderman.

I also highly recommend the trine series.

I watched the whole thing. I think most anchors talked a bit too slow which seemed fake. Those hand gestures were weird especially for (I don’t know his name) the black anchor. Very rigid fingers.

The main cringe section was the movie section where they tried to have the black anchor act sassy but that’s hard with a very level speaking tone and speed.

Honestly, I’d watch something like that once a week.it was nice to get a broad cross section of news.

I still use z-library. https://singlelogin.re/ has nearly all books.

Yes and no. I finished the show and the last episode or so has more action, but it’s a pretty slow burn the whole season.

My (8-10 year old) daughter and I have played through and throughly enjoyed the first 4 in co-op mode.

I am also learning Japanese. I fine it hard to think of the sentence structure as different than English. In my mind I find myself daying the sentences the way Yoda from star wars does and it makes more sense.

Yoda I am–>Yoda desu

I’m a math teacher. I use my video game making knowledge from Godot to make little video games to review skills. Each takes a few weeks to make with game design, making all the art, programming, and making the worksheet.

Here is my Disco Dj-Demo if you were curious what I mean.

I think it’s fun, it’s not something I can really chat with others about.

I bought a wireless hair clipper in February of 2020 for $50 on Amazon. Every few weeks I go out in my back yard and buzz it all off in about 5 minutes. I’m definately happy.

My daughter and I have played through quite a few games. Here are our favorites:

• ANY LEGO game, we have played through many of these
• The TRINE series. They are fun puzzle platforms
• portal 2 co-op. There is a campaign and other maps on the workshop
• brothers: a tale of two sons. Sit right next to each other and share the controller
• Unraveled 2, puzzle platform errors
• It takes two is an amazing game from EA.
• sackboy: a big adventure
• battle block theater is a fun romp
• bleep bloop
• degrees of separation, mostly fun there was a few annoying puzzles, but many can be skipped
• guacamole is a nice battle platformer
• ibb and obb is a very unique puzzle platformer
• octodad is pretty great fun
• pixel junk monsters is a tower defense style co op game
• putty pals is a fun if childish looking game
• spelunky is a rogue like
• toodee and topdee is a fun puzzler

Those are our favorites!

I started doing diamond art. Here is a cheap set with honestly 100+ hours of content. AMAZON LINK

I would put on a TV show and sit at my desk and Diamond art for a few hours before bed. Each picture takes 10-15 hours in my experience. When I was done I would find someone to give the picture to.

So not only have you accomplished something and you can SEE THE PROGRESS, you don’t need a big shift in your life of watching youtube, and at the end you get to make some else happy by giving them a gift. And for a hobby it’s fairly inexpensive.

Second for godot!

I am just starting the Fitz and the Fool trilogy. I have enjoyed the other trilogies in this series.

Looking forward to rereading mistborn so I remember wax and Wayne before jumping into the lost metal.

Thatars trilogy took me by surprise. At first it felt slow and dry, but I kept on. It definitely is a unique perspective on colonization and I really enjoyed it in the end.

I’ve read all these series. WoT seemed to drag toward the end and i didnt care for the last few chapters. It felt like there was too much to wrap up with too few pages so it felt rushed and unsatisfying.

I love all works by Sanderson so I’ve read all mistborn(except the new one from last November #7 I think). Excellent series. Have you read Elantris by Sanderson. I thought that was a very unique one off book that I couldn’t put down.

I just started the final set in the farseer/liveship series. I loved the first farseer trilogy. I felt the second trilogy(live ship trilogy) had a significant change of pace and almost skipped it. I really liked the first person view of fitz. In the end it was good and there are a few tie ins to later trilogies.