Re: WoW: * It turns out that Wendy's laptop (which she hardly uses anymore, except on the rare occasion we travel) is actually powerful enough to meet WoW's minimum requirements, and most of the recommended requirements.
* Right now, that laptop mostly resides on the treadmill. Basically, there's a console area on it that the laptop fits neatly onto, and I often have it playing videos while I walk. Once upon a time, I tried using a treadmill while "walking across Warcraft," but I ended up hurting my wrists, because I tried to use the keyboard at an awkward angle while doing that. Maybe I can learn from previous mistakes and just NOT do it that way. I've been using the laptop with Fantasy Grounds for Digital_Rampage's online Starfinder campaign, but what I do there is that I stand and run the treadmill during periods where I'm not really required to *do* anything (waiting my turn in combat, listening to the others argue about what to do next, etc.), and then when I actually need to do something that requires my hands (other than poke the hot-key for speaking), I stop the treadmill, and at that point it's pretty much like a "standing desk" -- not the most comfortable thing in the world, but doable.
Perhaps I can do that with WoW: go on the treadmill while my character is on a flight path, etc., and stop the treadmill when I'm actually fighting, typing, etc.
Anyway, Gwendel's primary interest is her desire to "do stuff with (me)," and it's just that she's unwilling to actually do anything that *I* am doing (such as, say, joining us at the table for RPG sessions happening over at our house), so that leaves WoW. I tried seeing if I could recover my old WoW account, but Blizzard claims to be unable to find my email address (or any of my older email addresses), so it would seem that they must have done some housekeeping in the intervening years and wiped my inactive account. (I find forum posts claiming that Blizzard "never" deletes inactive accounts, but it would seem that mine is an exception.)
If I *were* able to sign back in, I suppose I could try the free version (unable to mail stuff, unable to join guilds or groups, level-capped at level 20, I think, and so forth), so if Gwendel's interested in running around with a low-level character, I could at least do that until the novelty wears off (and if nothing else, see if it's even possible with my current setup).
No way I'm doing guild raid-groups or anything intensive like that, for sure. :/
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* It turns out that Wendy's laptop (which she hardly uses anymore, except on the rare occasion we travel) is actually powerful enough to meet WoW's minimum requirements, and most of the recommended requirements.
* Right now, that laptop mostly resides on the treadmill. Basically, there's a console area on it that the laptop fits neatly onto, and I often have it playing videos while I walk. Once upon a time, I tried using a treadmill while "walking across Warcraft," but I ended up hurting my wrists, because I tried to use the keyboard at an awkward angle while doing that. Maybe I can learn from previous mistakes and just NOT do it that way. I've been using the laptop with Fantasy Grounds for Digital_Rampage's online Starfinder campaign, but what I do there is that I stand and run the treadmill during periods where I'm not really required to *do* anything (waiting my turn in combat, listening to the others argue about what to do next, etc.), and then when I actually need to do something that requires my hands (other than poke the hot-key for speaking), I stop the treadmill, and at that point it's pretty much like a "standing desk" -- not the most comfortable thing in the world, but doable.
Perhaps I can do that with WoW: go on the treadmill while my character is on a flight path, etc., and stop the treadmill when I'm actually fighting, typing, etc.
Anyway, Gwendel's primary interest is her desire to "do stuff with (me)," and it's just that she's unwilling to actually do anything that *I* am doing (such as, say, joining us at the table for RPG sessions happening over at our house), so that leaves WoW. I tried seeing if I could recover my old WoW account, but Blizzard claims to be unable to find my email address (or any of my older email addresses), so it would seem that they must have done some housekeeping in the intervening years and wiped my inactive account. (I find forum posts claiming that Blizzard "never" deletes inactive accounts, but it would seem that mine is an exception.)
If I *were* able to sign back in, I suppose I could try the free version (unable to mail stuff, unable to join guilds or groups, level-capped at level 20, I think, and so forth), so if Gwendel's interested in running around with a low-level character, I could at least do that until the novelty wears off (and if nothing else, see if it's even possible with my current setup).
No way I'm doing guild raid-groups or anything intensive like that, for sure. :/