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When that happens, its imperitive that you dont participate. We need to reuse, and repair current and older machines.
I’d much rather game on old hardware or janky arm based stuff than use hardware as a service, even if it means being 10+ years behind in performance. There are so many great games that will run on pretty much anything
Just think how cheap gaming would be when it's all on old hardware too. Or when you can get a raspberry pi 8 and just emulate it.
I got a XP PC for playing The Sims 3 and some Lego games and such on it. The PC was my first ever PC, and I have since upgraded it with free parts I have found in the trash.. You won't believe what kind of top-notch-at-the-time things people just throw away. It's quite pleasant lil machine, my lil machine.
That’s awesome! Unfortunately I have a pretty high hardware fail rate, at least for motherboards and gpu’s. But I also have/had a penchant for overclocking everything, so guess I’m kind of asking for it. Most spectacularly had a nvidia 780i sli motherboard let the smoke out from running a q6600 at 3.2ghz for a few years. That was a rad platform, still feel kinda bad about that one tbh
I ardently wish that gamers, or at least people who spend money on games, were better at withholding their filthy lucre.