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Adult tasks done, time to treat myself to some Baldur's Gate 3 and potato smilies!
Astarion has been throwing it at me the last few rests.
I've only just started, so I'm not to well acquainted with everyone yet. Had to put off playing because I needed a new SSD, games these days are getting far to big.
Oh dude (let me know if you're not cool with this language!) I have been ranting for the past month or two about games needing SSDs. I just got a 2TB SSD and it runs BG3 pretty well, some stuttering but I've dropped the graphics but it's better than what it was on the HDD especially now that I'm in Baldur's Gate.
Though with BG3 being turn-based your reactions aren't super important. Now playing Starfield on my HDD was like hell. Especially when it came to fights. Stuttering, lags, and audio delays was doing my head in.
If you need an SSD recommendation, I can recommend the one I bought, my partner recc'd that one. But yeah far too many games ask for SSDs and while they're getting cheaper, it's still pretty expensive. Luckily there are games that I enjoy that run great on my HDD, but the more recent games are definitely ones I'm going to have to shove on the SSD.
Thanks for coming to my Ted talk (also Karlach, be still my beating heart!).
The harder I simp for Karlach the more Astarion and Lazel come onto me.
Same with Gale. Though apparently Gale is a bug, because since you >!give him magical items!< he's like "oh my god thank you for this". And his affection for you goes high because of it.
For me at least, I don't mind stuff requiring an SSD, it's just the sheer size of the games that bothers me. I get games being larger because they have so much more going on now, but so many games are averaging 100gb+ these days and that's just the base game, throw in DLCs and whatever else and it's just insane.
Yeah, no I get you. When I was reviewing Ratchet and Clank, that pretty much required an SSD. The game would constantly crash for me because it was on an HDD. At least BG3 has a "hey click here if you're on a hdd" button which helps to try and make the game perform a little better, but so many other games are just like "ha you're on your own buddy!". I was happy that R+C was a small enough size to fit on my c drive, but still. Like BG3 and Starfield are both 100+gb. I miss the days of Skyrim being under 15gb even with all the DLCs installed.
I want Astarion to like me but I don't like being mean. 😭😭😭