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I spilled a full mug of tea over my work laptop – make me feel better by sharing your own broken PC stories
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I spilled a full mug of tea over my work laptop – make me feel better by sharing your own broken PC stories

On Friday, while on the phone to friend of this parish Jeremy Peel, I knocked an entire mug of tea over my laptop. I won't immortalise in text what I said in that moment; it's for the best that those curses are lost to the aether. I immediately shut down the PC, mopped it clean with a kitchen towel, and flipped it over, leaving it splayed open to air dry. I even went so far as to plonk it down in front of a dehumidifier to really sap the tea out of the machine.* There it sat for two days, a mod

This week in PC games: Hytale, Quarantine Zone, a weird Batman sim, and a fresh batch of RPGs and shooters
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This week in PC games: Hytale, Quarantine Zone, a weird Batman sim, and a fresh batch of RPGs and shooters

Happy Mawday all! This week, I'm thinking about how we can expand our bestiary of Maw manifestations. When describing the beast, we often resort to stock Lovecraftian imagery of a kaleidoscopic kerfuffle of teeth and tentacles, but the Maw’s appearances aren’t always so pulpy and cinematic. Sometimes, it just looks like a blinking cursor, or an expectant child, or a feeling of guilt about not returning a text message from an old friend. Sometimes, it looks like an audience of people

Here's Doom running in Hytale before it's even out, thanks to modders
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Here's Doom running in Hytale before it's even out, thanks to modders

Well, it was inevitable really. Here I sit, a day before Hytale's early access release, to tell you that a modder has already managed to get a blocky version of classic Doom running in it. Add it to the list of weird places to play the shooter, which already included (inhales) human test, lawnmower, electric toothbrush, tractor, the bad social media place, pregancy test, and gut bacteria. Read more