There was a laptop lying around in the bin and I figured it was broken if someone was going to throw it around like that but today I was pretty bored and decided to check it out. It took me a full minute to find the power button (located on the side of the laptop for some reason) and it turned on by some miracle, like a patient’s heart being started by a defibrillator. The screen is a bit cracked, not in hammer smashing the screen sort of way; it’s cracked similar to how it would be if I accidentally sat on it. That’s alright though since the screen is still completely visible.

Also, for whatever reason Grammarly is installed on this thing. I don’t know who uses Grammarly aside from illiterate high school students trying to write an essay. According to Grammarly, my writing is 5/5 on the friendliness scale. I was thinking about downloading it to help with my Wattpad fanfiction but now I know it’s a total sham.

After downloading some updates I booted up Roblock to see the thing I was most interested in: the performance. I suppose I could check somewhere to see the specs but it’s all gibberish to me and I’m not a nerd. (My assertiveness scale was at 2/5 but it jumped to 5/5 after I wrote “nerd.”) A few weeks ago I was looking at some PCs since the laptop I use is over a decade old and can’t even run block games. There were a bunch of people discussing the specs of each PC and it all sounded silly to me since I was just trying to play Adopt Me without any lag. The way I understand it, the bigger the numbers, the better it is. I could try to search up what it all means but I’m just trying to play video games so I don’t think it’s all too important.

Anyhow the laptop seemed to fluctuate between 40 and 60 fps while running the block game. It was a little disappointing really. I was sort of hoping for a clean and consistent 60 fps the whole way through. Still, it’s a lot better than the dinosaur fossil I usually use, the one that struggles to even reach 30 fps.

Of course, I still have to test if it can run a more intensive game. Hopefully, it can but I’m not sure it will. At the very least I want it to run Source games.

For a long time, it seems like everyone’s owned a decent laptop aside from me. I went to a friend’s house a while ago—mind you, we were still just idiot fifth graders at this point—and he had this rainbow goliath PC with two monitors. At the time I didn’t realize how impressive it was but now I’m pretty jealous. Vinh has a pretty good PC and several laptops that run a lot better than mine. TQ had a pretty decent laptop from what I remember and I’m sure they have a computer as well. Even that bum Bien has a better running computer than me. At school, this guy asked me if  I had a PC and I told him I didn’t and he called me a liar. I asked him why I’d lie about something like that and he said, “I don’t know, you just look like you would own one.” I thought it was a little strange to associate people with hardware but the message was pretty clear.

At this point, Grammarly has completely given up on what tone my writing has. The screen is just blank now. My words must be too advanced for them.

The last thing I want to say about this laptop is that the CTRL button is in a very awkward position.