Minecraft And Chill – The Climb #900

Tuesday 10th August 2021

My PC recently broke. It just won’t boot up. Luckily, the way I work meant this was not the disaster it could have been, and with the exception of The Climb thumbnails and all my video stuff, I’ve been able to continue to work on my gaming laptop uninterrupted.

What makes this particularly annoying is that the system is just over 2 years old and in that grey area where the warranty covers labour but not necessarily the parts.

I went through all the diagnoses with support over the last week or so, and they came to the conclusion it was the graphics card. It was either that or the motherboard. Again, a graphics card should not go after just 2 years but it was an excuse to go for a new RTX card. So I bought one.

And today it arrived and I carefully installed it, thinking of all those low graphic games I’m going to play with Ray Tracing on, such as Warcraft where I will see minimal improvement. But hey, it really bugged me when I found out my system couldn’t do RTX

However, the computer still would not start, and to say I’m a little pissed off that it’s not the graphics card I’ve just spent £400 to replace, is an understatement.

So despite having a productive day, I finished early and decided to play some Minecraft.

This is another of those games that has ray tracing and was one I was keen to try with the new graphics card, but after the day I’ve had, it was the perfect game to play to chill out.

My brother and I set up a shared world, with the idea that either side of a valley would be our respective kingdoms. He expands out one way, I expand out the other.

I ended up spending most of my night flattening land. I also played quite a bit on the Support Bubble Sofa with the iPad and it worked amazingly well.

With Warcraft’s recent troubles making the game feel a lot less fun, my rep grind nearing its end and the covenant campaign apparently ending tomorrow, so the drive to play Warcraft every day lessens. Perhaps now’s the perfect time for a break to play something else.

Tomorrow I have to do all the procedures to return the computer for them to find out what’s wrong with it, which means another couple of weeks working on the gaming laptop. I’ll live, but I do really miss my desktop,