Today I finished a book that I picked a while back from a Little Free Library.
This is the reason I didn't know I was building that Steam backlog all along
I get slightly bummed about this possible future, but then look at my crazy backlog from over the years and all of the old spare hardware I have kicking around. I could spend years just going back through emulators, let alone the literal thousand Steam titles built up and waiting to be rediscovered. Plus all the fan projects and indie studios that don't require frame gen as part of their base spec.
We'll be ok, we just may have to revisit the Old Ways a bit.
I think know where this is going:
"NoBOdy wAnTs to BuY gAmeS AnYmORE"
There are thousands of amazing older games that run on old hardware. Forget AAA and wade into your backlog or pull out some classic from gog or a yard sale.
Don't chase the high end, relax and start a game of CIV 4 or Anno 1404
In the past 2 weeks, I've played Tie Fighter and Dune 2. Glad I had over the minimum 640 KB of RAM for Dune - it's pricey these days but worth it for a smoother experience!
I feel like everything is being priced to where we aren't meant to have any savings.
Companies want unbounded exponential profits. Now guess where those profits are coming from.
spoiler
It's from squeezing every cent they can from regular people.
The objective is to kill home computing :D (🤮)
I think consumer devices are slowly going to not exist. It will switch to screens that stream from the data centers.
I don't think it'll ever happen fully. There's waaaaaay too much money in selling even 1980s-tier hardware to individuals after a certain point.
It will be easier to control terrorists that way.
Thank the Lord! I'm sick of islamic terrorists(tm) killing me.
Or did you mean it will be easier for them to control the terrorists as in create them!?
Oh. All terrorists. Islamic, atheist, communist, animal rights, voting rights, environmentalist, democrat...
Think of all global resources and all economies that slowly leave imperialism behind. Things must get more expensive without wages adjusting to give everybody their fair share.
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