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Quick WIP picture of the BIT.TRIP BOY I'm working on.

fixed.

Chip is a medium, not a genre.

I was a graphic designer in [a store], but business was getting too slow and it got to the point where I was only working 15 hours a week which was only enough to pay for gas and vehicle insurance. AND the store owner has no idea what she's doing and won't take help or advice from anyone (including the president of the company), so she's basically running the business into the ground. It was a fun job but I had to get out of there. The Amazon fulfillment center that opened up last fall called me last month (I did seasonal work for them in December) in the middle of my shift and basically said "Hey, if you want to work here again, here's your new schedule. Show up in two days. We'll pay you $11/hr and you're guaranteed 40+ hours a week and at least six months of work." So I quit my graphic design job that same day and I'm working at Amazon now.
The job sucks, and I have hardly any free time any more (40+ a week, hah. more like 60+), but I have plenty of cash now.

I can't really suggest anything for $220, but if you can save up some more I'd definitely suggest getting one of the cheaper laptops from Dell's Insprion line. The basic ones are around $400, IIRC.
That's my go-to laptop for anyone who doesn't know exactly what they want and don't want to go through the trouble of building their own.
IMO it's probably the best prebuilt lappy you can get for that kind of money. Not exactly top-of-the-line stuff, but it'll have a decent video card and a decent amount of RAM. My dad gave me an Inspiron n5010 about two years ago and I still use it for FL Studio and Ableton, as well as Adobe's premium web suite CS4 (photoshop, illustrator, flash, etc.), and Vocaloid. The specs are also good enough that I've played Bioshock, Portal 2, TF2, and emulated a few Wii games on it with without any problems.
But yeah, there's not a lot you can get for 220.
All I can think of for around 200 is a little "eee pc" (this is a brand?) netbook my sister has. It's pretty much a piece of crap and the only thing it gets used for is Facebook. Some of her Facebook games don't even work properly on it.