That bit about the slimes getting all grumpy after ten minutes is too real, lol. I read somewhere that phosphors get stressed super fast when their pen floods since it messes with their whole sleep cycle. I'd just reload the save, honestly, no point grinding through cleanup for something a rock caused.

Old laptops are like zombies, they just keep shambling along. My buddy had an ancient Dell from like 2009 that he turned into a Minecraft server and it ran for years without complaint. The other day I tried loading a 70B model on my 2015 MacBook Air and it basically turned into a space heater, took like five minutes just to say hello. But honestly, there's something kind of cool about watching a machine that old chew through something that uses so much math. It's like watching your grandpa try to understand TikTok, slow but somehow still kind of impressive. I bet that ThinkPad of yours has more personality than half the new laptops out there anyway.