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Oh yeah, I never mentioned it but sometime in mid July I met with the professor I did research with before and now I’m going to grad school starting this fall. I can’t specify exactly what I’ll be researching (for confidentiality reasons) but it involves marine invertebrates and it’s behavioral so that’ll be different than what I’ve done before.

I don’t think I mentioned that when my friend graduated last winter I got one of those personalized cookie cakes that said “congration you done it”. But I wanted to make sure they understood what I really wanted and that I wasn’t just typing drunk or something so I went in person to place the order. I looked the lady in the eyes as I handed her a printed out image of the original cake to be stapled with my order form and showed her that’s how I wanted it spelled and when I walked in to pick it up several days later she didn’t even need to ask for a name, just handed me the box and laughed. They got the font right and everything, even copied the little swirly things. It was beautiful.

Is it unrealistic to expect my laptop to run a game like Layers of Fear fairly smoothly? I tried playing it the other day and it was really having a hard time with it, even when I turned the graphics options to low. Like, slow response to mouse movements and laggy. My laptop’s been running Minecraft and Left 4 Dead 2 just fine (although sometimes the landscape in Minecraft takes a while to catch up, but I can still move around even if the whole ground hasn’t visibly loaded if that makes sense). I know there are ways to optimize a computer for gaming performance, but would that interfere with using it for drawing? Would I need to switch up what it’s optimized for based on what I’m doing, and how complicated would that be?

I know specs are relevant but I don’t know a whole lot about terms or what does what and it gets a bit overwhelming trying to read through discussions on the topic.

If anyone has PC gaming experience and knows more than the bare minimum I’d appreciate any tips.

I used to think it was unrealistic that Tazmily was developed so much in only three years, but then a whole frickin neighborhood pops up behind my old elementary school where only a year prior there’d been a pine stand and deer and rabbits and suddenly it’s way too real.

The other day I learned that dumpster diving on public property is legal in my county as of like two years ago. Not that I’ve ever taken stuff out of a trash dumpster but now the option is there I guess.