Gaming

It's almost like when Timothy Spall's character John Chapel (an actor turned police consultant, in Death Valley) said he'd been offered the role of Peter Pettigrew in Harry Potter but turned it down...

Speaking of Roach-like nonsense...
In cowboy-land after collecting some debts I saw a big herd of bison and went off to hunt one. I killed it! (after many, many arrows. ) but the hunt went on for so long that when I whistled for my horse I was told that it's apparently out of range.
So I had to carry this heavy thing for miles...

 

I kept whistling every few steps in an exhausted, out-of-breath way until finally...

 

I climb on and then get the message that my horse is very dirty and apparently that's a bad thing.
Better get the brush out.

 

Well it makes a nice change from the "Not enough VRAM message."

I haven't read Blood Meridian, but based on what I have heard I imagine it plays out exactly like your post 

"You are running low on text in this chapter. Close all other books and reduce your settings."
-Blood Meridian.

Does it also have a subplot about defeating random women at dominoes?

I don't think there are any women in the book, let alone any with pizzas