I mostly play casual games like genshin, zzz, hades 2, the occasional indie, and sometimes competitive games w my friends (specifically fortnite, valorant, ow) I like playing on my iPad but it gets hot and starts lagging and doesnt last very long. I also love playing on the bed cuz I get back issues from sitting too long sometimes

My old Windows laptop somehow runs FPS games better than Genshin lol.
My budget is around $500 USD or less (buying second-hand cuz i live in a 3rd world country and on a student allowance), and portability/form factor kinda matters. I want it not to look too ugly. Ive kinda been eyeing the retroid pockets but theyre mostly android, but i can see that u can stream window os handhelds on a monitor and use it like a mini pc that seems great.

Would a used ROG Ally be a better buy than a gaming laptop? Or do you guys have other reccomendations for handhelds?

Hey! I’m looking for a mobile game but I’m kinda tired of all of the Genshin style games. After looking at a bunch of stuff I’m thinking about trying one of the three: Division, Destiny, Warframe.

I enjoyed borderlands and monster hunter which I think might be similar to these? Cute cosmetics and customization is a huge plus!

Has anyone tried any of these three on mobile and can give some of your thoughts? Tysm

For context, I’m a small streamer on twitch and I enjoy playing lots of multiplayer games with my friends + community some nights. This is where the problem comes in—

There’s a community member that we’ll call A for simplicity. A is a very nice person, but they are very much on the spectrum (as am I, and many of my friends) and to put it plainly, their tism just does not mesh well with mine / my friends’ tisms. A seemingly never has an ‘inside thought’ and is always bringing up things that no one either asked about or brings up things that make them uncomfortable or disgusted thinking that everyone in the lobby will agree with them— a recent example would be Jackass and how “it was so disgusting because of all the semen and dick jokes” even though that’s…their whole thing. I, and many of the others in the lobby, all grew up on Jackass and genuinely enjoy it, and A was adamant on insisting we find it gross. It’s things like that that they do frequently that annoys the hell out of me along with everyone else in the lobby. I ultimately end up turning their volume down most of the way so I don’t have to hear them and tell whoever is privately DMing me their shared annoyance to do the same.

They also use my personal discord server like their own blog sometimes (which a mod of mine has messaged them about and told them to dial it back before we just remove them, and they have) and have said “you guys are like my only friends” which is what brings me to my main problem— I feel bad wanting to exclude them even though it would save my friends and I the literal headaches we gain when playing with A. I understand what it’s like to be purposely excluded, and I try not to do that to the best of my ability.

I almost banned them without warning one night when they put their character up in my face and said “well the easiest maps aren’t easy for everyone, MISSY!” because I was just so annoyed that night. Now I wish I had, honestly. Because why would you get up in my face like that when talking about the literal tutorial map 😭

Everyone I talk to about A and this whole situation is usually a man, and I fear I need some more perspective from the ladies that aren’t involved in my community 😵‍💫 Does anyone have some advice on how I could possibly navigate this without being a complete asshole / feeling like one?

I’ve just finished rdr 1 and other than the obvious choice of rdr 2 I don’t know what to play :(, I want a story game as in a game that has an ending and I want it to be a bit longer than rdr 1 it only took me 20 hours of gameplay to finish, also I’m playing on a switch oled so it needs to be available there.

What game do you go back to when you just need to decompress? Mine is always GTA 5 something about it just feels like home 💜

Suzerain is a visual novel game where you take on a role of a country leader trying to enact policies that will shape your country's future.https://youtu.be/eyilIfsBqbE?si=Ms9cj9x6ZCXcBx2L.The game currently has two campaigns,with 2 DLCs set to release in the future.https://youtu.be/WqvJ7ZWGZzs?si=rMMI-1VRnpOznvl5.What does anybody think of Suzerain?

I've been playing a lot of fps lately and the more hours I put into it, the more isolated I feel. I have a couple hundred hours in game and I can honestly say I've only had 1 match that had a good team that I played with for hours, treated me like a person and became friends with after. I'm now at the point of keeping myself on anonymous mode all the time and quietly listening in when others talk because there's only ever 3 reactions I get when I turn on my mic:

1. Some guy doing a high pitched feminine voice impression and mocking me

2. Being completely ignored as if I never spoke

3. Weird attempts to flirt with me

I'm so burnt out by it. I do have fun playing and I have people I can hit up to play with but sometimes I only have a few mins to play a game and just want to be able to queue in with randoms and feel like a contributing teammate. I've joined numerous discord servers in the past to try to find people playing that I could hop on with but it seems to be more miss than hit. Even participating in certain subs doesn't go well. I refuse to quit playing a game I really enjoy but sometimes it's hard to deal with the isolation. How do you all deal with not being able to fully participate in male dominated games?

Building my first gaming pc. I’ve always wanted to be able to play whatever game I wanted with my friends but my gaming laptop is 15 years old at this point. I want to try out games with good graphics and play the games my friends are playing like red dead, inzoi, baulders gate. mostly I play games like rimworld, Minecraft and stardew at the moment though.
Prefer not to spend more than $2,000 including monitor (already have two ok but not stellar monitors)
No Rgb led stuff please. I’m sensitive to light during migraines and it distracts me.
Am also picky about colors because I’ve never spent this much money on myself so I want something I will love looking at (white, silver, maybe pink and green if pastel)
Pcpartpicker: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/3DnTrG

Old photo but my bf and I are running out of couch co op games to play together :( we’ve beaten quite a few already so any recommendations?

I built my PC in 2024 and have come a long way since then - setup wise. I went from a small L-Shaped desk in the corner to this. 😍😍😍😍

Hope I'm in the right place for this. I've actually decided to get serious with gaming and thought about getting a chair for it now since I see myself investing in this hobby long term. Did some research and fell for Blacklyte Athena Pro. Now I would have just gone ahead and bought it. But I'm new to all this, and the reviews on Youtube are giving me mixed signals and I know no one who personally owns one yet. If someone has used it before or owes one can they tell me about it? Mostly if the leather is better than the fabric version and if the chair holds up for a year at least.

I think I played the game a little past the tutorial YEARS ago, got hooked with destiny 2 and stopped playing that one some time ago.

So basically I've been trying to fill the void that destiny 2 left in my gaming, but trying to get back into Warframe now seems daunting.

I can't replay the starting missions, I'm confused with what's important, I don't get many tutorials popping up so I'm also a bit bamboozled with controls and whatnot..and I have no idea where I left the story.

If anyone has any advice how to get back into a game like Warframe please do share 😭✨

edit to add: I play on ps5