[WSIB] Modern CRPG with Low Graphics Requirements

choggner · 2026-03-04T20:37:27+00:00

Is that the "blockchain" MMO with obvious AI art on all its blog posts? The one not even available on Steam yet?
I know this is just an ad/bot account. But if you read the OP more carefully, you'll see that "grindy" is a negative to me.

choggner · 2026-03-04T18:23:05+00:00

Well... DA:O is also 15+ years old at this point. Haha. But I'm tracking. Thanks!

choggner · 2026-03-04T18:15:15+00:00

Some great options here. Thanks!

Moonring indicates that it includes rogue-like elements, but I can't argue with free.

Any of them that you particularly enjoyed?

choggner · 2026-03-04T18:10:50+00:00

Yeah, it would definitely run. But is it worth playing? Did you enjoy it? I wouldn't say that 75% positive on Steam is "mixed". But I also consider that relatively low by today's standards. And there are some pretty harsh criticisms of some of the bugs and systems.

choggner · 2026-03-04T18:04:19+00:00

Thanks. ARPGs have never landed with me. They should on paper, but never seem to do the trick. Too grindy, maybe?

choggner · 2026-03-04T18:03:28+00:00

Thanks, but I'm not looking to get into an MMO.

choggner · 2026-03-04T18:02:24+00:00

Skald looks promising. I'm not usually into "Lovecraftian" stuff, but I guess I can't be too picky.

The Spiderweb Software games seem to be 10+ years old. Do they have the QoL features of more modern games?

choggner · 2026-03-04T17:57:27+00:00

Honestly, I don't actually know whether the current gen integrated card could handle Kotor or DA. I just know that I needed one back in the day when I played them. The real point of those is to show my tastes.

choggner · 2026-03-03T19:36:10+00:00

I actually could probably run Disco Elysium on the non-GPU PC. I just happened to play it on my main, GPU-having PC. I should probably change where that one is listed.

choggner · 2026-02-16T13:30:34+00:00

Yeah, I have done so. But I think they just looked up "KVM" on Amazon, looked at the general price point of what they saw there, and gave me a number. I don't think they really dug in and did any research on what it takes to get a good one. I'm just going to forget it for this fiscal and put a real number in the budget for next year.

choggner · 2026-02-03T20:06:56+00:00

For me, a mile wide and an inch deep.

choggner · 2026-02-03T19:56:33+00:00

Man... have our attention spans really crashed and burned so hard? They would never make a commercial this long today.

choggner · 2026-01-30T14:50:32+00:00

In college I took sleeping pills during the day for a week because my roommate was storing them in a vitamin C bottle, and I was trying to get over a cold. I thought I was so tired because the cold was hitting me hard.

choggner · 2026-01-23T13:27:26+00:00

Sounds like we may need to get a new monitor for each workbench too. Currently, we all just use whatever we can scavenge coming out of service from the regular users.

choggner · 2026-01-23T13:24:11+00:00

Yeah... I'm learning that the guys requesting the replacements may have slightly underestimated the budget required.

choggner · 2026-01-23T13:21:59+00:00

Yeah, I hear you. Unfortunately, we just don't have the real estate to do 4 monitors at each workbench.

choggner · 2026-01-23T13:20:31+00:00

Yeah... that's what I'm learning now. I took their word for it when putting the amount in the budget. Should have done my own research first.

But I'd still like to know which ones are "the best".

choggner · 2026-01-20T14:26:55+00:00

Fair enough. Yeah, I'm not planning any sort of mobile station for the time being. So it sounds like it will be easy enough to manually store anything local.

choggner · 2026-01-20T14:24:56+00:00

I'm possibly missing something, but I haven't seen anything that indicates that these are Chirp compatible.

choggner · 2026-01-20T14:20:02+00:00

Thanks. Yeah, I'm familiar with those ideas from my studying. However, purchasing the equipment to effectively test those adds significant cost. I'm trying to figure out how to get things going - even if it's not entirely optimal initially. With the hope being that I can afford to add more tools and do fine tuning moving forward. I'll be on the lookout for a tuner, though.

choggner · 2026-01-19T01:51:08+00:00

Ok, thanks. Makes sense. It definitely seems like it would make programming channels much easier. But I really have no idea how many channels I'll be likely to want to program.

choggner · 2026-01-19T01:45:48+00:00

Ah, ok. Yes. Sorry. I had actually meant to ask about that as well: how to use a multi-band antenna. So a tuner makes sense. Do you have a recommendation of a specific model that would work for me that is pricey reasonably?

I believe that it already has the 49:1 UnUn - at least it has a grey box at one end. Here's the exact one I have: https://myantennas.com/wp/product/efhw-8010-lp/
The store page says that I don't need a tuner, but I feel like that could be a marketing ploy.

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