Summer and the small issues for Gamers it brings...

Hi all,

It's summer in the northern hemisphere and temperatures are going up...

You are sitting in front of your desktop or laptop and feeling like melting ice cream (which probably is the thing you desire most but can't get). It's over 30°C outside and in your room it feels like over a 50°C.

Nevertheless... you turn on DOTA as usual, enter a game, chose your hero, walk to your lane and start killing creeps... but what's that? Chaos Knight jumps out of the forest swinging his Quelling Blade. In the very last moment you try to bring up your Stout Shield to parry his attack... but... your forearm got stuck to your desk... you fail to parry and feed the enemy. While the 10 seconds of your death you try to remove your sweaty forearm from the desk and find another less gluey position.

Anyone of you has the same problems?
You have any other issues typically happening in summer time?
What do you do against it?


Play with long sleeve, connect a USB-fan, turn on the air condition if you have one...

If you are living in a region where it is always summer I'm looking forward to your professional advice. :-)

I dont have too much of a problem with temperatures since I'm in the basement and I live in northeastern corner of the US. My laptop does overheat though (i need an upgrade) so I put an icepack under the fan area. My hand often gets sweaty so I often just need to wipe it against my shirt when I'm not busy in the game. Have a small towel or a pad nearby it helps with sweaty palms.

I actually live in a region where it's almost always summer, and because of that, everywhere has air conditioners.

Still, my brother has a laptop that overheats and shuts down, he bought an external (table with a small fan inside it), that is plugged in the USB port. This will consume some more energy from the laptop, so you must keep your laptop charging.

A few weeks back in the UK it was very hot and for a sustained period - so hot at one point that all the fibre optic junctions for Virgin Media overheated, and my 20mb fibre optic connection dropped to around 3mb, which caused a few days of poor performance all round.

I know this as the technician I booked to come look at my connections had spent all week going around sorting non-existing customer issues and that was the root cause - how will they fix it - he told me they are replacing all of the dark cabinets with white / cream ones......