bought a 27” iMac in 2010. This was pre-Thunderbolt, and at that time, the 27” model had something called Target Display Mode which allowed it to be used as a monitor for another computer. This made it easy to work from home and was a primary enabler for my 2014 gaming PC purchase. It worked …
My New Gaming PC
My gaming PC arrived about a week after I ordered it. Setup was quick and easy, with Windows 11 being easy to get used to. My games were set up within a couple days and most utilities, except for one particularly annoying one, were setup as well. The case is ever-so-slightly wider than my previous PC …
Summer Games 2023
Now that fall has begun, it's time to reflect on the summer, on games specifically. I usually don't play many games during the summer; it's usually time to go outside and enjoy the beautiful weather and get some sun. Unfortunately this summer was an obnoxious mix of never-ending rain and hot, humid scorchers. As a …
Holiday Games
It's fall and that means it's time to start stocking up on video games for the winter! There's no better time as most platforms have a fall sale followed by a winter sale plus some random sales in-between. I tend to buy most of my games from Steam, but occasionally seek out other digital platforms …
Black Friday Game Purchases 2019
It's the holiday season and you know what that means, clearance on video games!!! I rarely buy games at launch or at full price and usually wait until they are a year or so old and go on sale. Sales generally happen in the summer, fall, and winter hitting both Thanksgiving and Christmas. I scour …
2018 PC Upgrade Results
I recently decided to upgrade my storage and graphics card on my gaming PC. There was a bit of drama but the results are in. Storage I augmented my existing 2 TB spinning hard drive and 512 GB SSD with a 2 TB NVMe in an M.2 slot. The result has been phenomenal. A machine that …
2018 Holiday Gaming
The holidays are an opportunity to celebrate the season, spend time with family... and play video games! I'm off for 11 days in a row this year and while some of my time will be spent with the fam, some will also be spent gaming (and some working on the house). Here's what I'll be …
Bi-Annual PC Upgrade
I bought a custom-built gaming PC four years ago so I could upgrade it incrementally and avoid buying a new PC every couple of years to keep up with games. Over the long run this would provide me with a better system for less money. The original machine came with a high-end fourth-generation Core i7 …
Four Assassin’s Creeds
I posted about my holiday tradition playing Assassin's Creed III and noted that I wasn't sure if I would finish it before moving onto the next game in the series or if I'd start playing them in parallel. Well I decided to play the next game in the series... and then the next... and the …
Three Years of Assassin’s Creed
The first time I saw Assassin's Creed was at a Game Stop on a PlayStation 3, sometime in 2007-2008. I played a few minutes and died a bunch of times because I'm terrible using console controllers, but came away impressed. The game was so cool. It had a big beautiful world that you could run …
Relatively Ambitious 