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Since size is paramount, I'd probably fill about half of this space with NES, GB, and SNES roms and the emulators to play them as well as a few highly replayable classic PC games (CIv, SIm City, X-Com, Warcraft 2, Doom) and some small programs to edit/create images, and a small compiler and text editing tool (maybe Pascal based as another commenter suggested). The rest would be filled with a tremendous amount text books in a compressed archive, both fiction and non-fiction.

Something like Project Gutenberg would fit well here. You'd never run out of books for the rest of your life.

You just skipped the entire SNES catalog for some N64 titles?

Wasn't the full Daggerfall install was actually closer to 400MB. I remember I bought a second HDD just to house Daggerfall since not loading anything from CD made it crash less.

Edit: Just forgot to mention that I love how detailed this list is and you are basically describing my late 90s PC, except it was Turbo Pascal and slightly older versions of Worms and RTS games.

I just replaced my 3070 with a RX 7900XT and it was a very noticeable difference in performance. It doesn't help that my primary display is 3840x1600 though. The 3070 was never particularly great for that res.

I just did this with an RX7900TX and everything worked fine and I decided to install my normal updates. And then my PC wouldn't boot. After hours of "fun", it turns out that the issue had nothing to do with the GPU swap and all. Tons of fun!

I haven't in at least a year or two.

Weirdly, I feel like Topre are almost designed to encourage and cushion a bottom out. The membrane dome collapses really high in the press and then you get bounced back up by the conic springs underneath. It doesn't do it for me, but some people love it.

Ok, I see where you're going now, but I'm still not sure I agree with you here overall for the genre.

I think the "add tactics" thing is already done to a degree in these games as early enemies in these games tend to be dead simple since players like likely still acclimating to the game, but I suspect that there is only so much you can do before you end up turning later enemies into some sort of frustrating puzzle. Diablo-likes, for better or worse, aren't generally mind bending affairs, high skill ceiling affairs.

There is definitely room in the genre for more tactical, skill dependent entries, but I not sure the end result would be as fun for most people as that would be a fundamentally different type game. Hey, maybe I am wrong and this would lead to some sort of souls-like Diablo game where skill and learning are all that matters and items and character building are far less important. Come to think of it, that sounds a lot like Hades in a way.

Your desire to dumb down diablo-likes is your own and I hate it. PoE and Grim Dawn are about the only games like this that I have truly enjoyed in a long time. Blizzard ruined Diablo and WoW with this bullshit take.

It's firmly "OK", though I was never a big Topre fan. It was amazing for the price and it is better when you remove the o-rings that are meant to dampen the sound. Once the dampers are out it and you replace the caps (uses standard MX caps), the 55G version feels like a slightly better version of the old Cooler Master Novatouch 45g. It is also backlit with RGB, which wasn't a thing for Topre boards at that point. I'm actually curious if the RGB Topre membranes feels just like the ones used by the RK.

That is truly a bummer, I guess Sony doesn't want any of my money any time soon.