Collapse in living standards and soaring prices of RAM amidst economic strife are causing the "end" of gaming. >1980-90s: videogame explode in popularity, arcade and home consoles are everywhere, video games begin to rival movies among millenials>2000s: videogames go full mainstream with collossal hits like GTA and Call of Duty, the industry reaches its artistic zenith with titles like Planescape and rival genre literature with titles like Mass Effect and Dragon Age>2010s: industry reaches mainstream reach, yet the first cracks reveal themselves, when gamers are rejected and associated with extremist sympathies>2020s: soaring AI industries make personal computing and access to technology quickly disappear among common people, and the first casualties come from hobbies that rely on technology like gaming and movies>very little sympathy to the soaring costs of gaming, since gaming failed to attain cultural status like film and literature and sport, being delegated to the status of pro-wrestling>investment disappears left and right, big companies close doors, only a few big companies and some hundred indies with aging fans keep the water runningGaming is the next WWE: a niche hobby for 5 million people who grew up with it. Some popular characters may use gambling as a means to acquire popularity and make it to cinema and literature, but that is it. Gamers are sided with wrestling and NASCAR fans as some fringe nerd internet rednecks.Gamer Gate doomed gaming, by making sure that thr only people who build an identity around gaming are those that have already grown up engaging in it.The USA destroyed gaming, as the first casualty from a devastating free fall in living standards. Phones, television, even electronics like domestic equipment will follow suit.Yes, this is political. People getting so poor that toys enjoyed by millions ten years ago are becoming inacessible.
>>538362005None of this is true and they will just produce less less capable and expensive systems, budgets will get cut and it actually may save gaming by removing the cancer that ruined it. So instead of AAA way overproduced bullshit and a focus on better graphics which always means textures and lighting, we will see a focus on actually making good games again.
>>538362214>we will see a focus on actually making good games again.They won't go back to making video games at all. These companies will close, stay closed, and people you agree with politically won't have any jobs at all
>>538362005You're too young to remember that the games industry already huge crash in the early 80s and came through better for it.
>young men take up learning a sport of musical instrument instead of video games>become attractive to young women again>rise of young marriages and increase in having kids>economic boom resultsNice.
we have been reduced to chasing down a code. wth is going on here?
>>538362382>You're too young to remember that the games industry already huge crash in the early 80s and came through better for it.Holy shit, an actual knowledgeable person pops up in in a game thread on /pol/
>>538362382The crash during the 80s was during the highest moment of gaming, when there was so much being made everywhere. The modern crisis is nothing like the 80s. We are suffering an affordability crisis, where companies will close and stay closed, due to low revenues (due to declining living standards and rising cost of the hobby) combined with rising production costs and other applications to technology with better marginal returns, such as AI.The age of AAA games with massive cultural impact is over. And we are not back to what gaming was in the late 2000s, neither. We are in this sad zone where gaming is simply declining. There is ever less of it. Corners are being cut. Devs are being laid off. Resources are being repurposed to AI, and gamers are buying ever less.This is the end of WCW era for gaming.
>>538362661The "ET Crisis" is hardly some obscure fact. But ET was a crisis of overproduction. This is a crisis of affordability.
This is just an exodus of money printing 'investment' because gamers are no longer buying wakanda homo AIDs Halo 9: Infinite Money Printing for Xbox: Dubai. Gaming as an industry is still growing.
>>538362400That's not even approaching the crux of the issue. People use avenues of escape because this place fucking sucks. When times are tough people fall into their vices, whether that's chemicals or escapism via gaming and films.Just because I don't have access to a gaming system doesn't have any bearing on whether I break down and contribute to the judaized shitscape of a nation we've been left with. Nah fuck you. I hope other people have kids though because I sure as shit am not.
>>538362661Syndicate Wars?Sick game. We'll deport you last, pigskin.
ok but how does this affect the 5000 years worth of gaming enjoyment already in my steam library?
>>538362005Gaming isn't going anywhere. AAA games with accelerating hardware demands might be, but when you can run MAME on a raspberry pi, people will find ways to match stuff they can play to hardware they can afford.
>>538363093pretty sure that's the original syndicate? could be wrong it's been twenty years since I played it... satellite reign is pretty good as a successor game
>>538362005You can literally just generate your own custom game now. Why even buy a game.https://youtu.be/JvT17VTCbcU?t=1453https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRorQfivg-Ahttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aB30In41P1g
cdda is free but is shit because of the tyrannical dev team/cult. play bright nights instead; dongs of dyx is on sale regularly or pirate it if you want the dev doesn't care or so he says upfront.panem et circuses
>>538362005China, Japan, and Korea will weather this crash like Japan weathered it in the 80s. The game crash in Western studios and PS/XB is due solely to hiring women, faggots, and troons to make games and run HR departments. They've been pulling from US universities which have been turned into activist factories, and these people are incapable of creating anything. They were never taught to create, they were taught to protest and "change culture" which is impossible. The American gamer will simply buy games made in Asian countries.
>>538362005>Buy second hand office hardware for peanuts>Play old games that are available for peanuts>Profit
>>538362005>Gamer Gate doomed gaming, by making sure that thr only people who build an identity around gaming are those that have already grown up engaging in ithuh?to begin with, if you build your identity around video games you are a retard, "gamer" is label one assumes to identify as a fellow hobbyistthings were better back when gaming was a niche thing ffor weirdos and dorks. normies just ruin everythinglet the ram-pocalypse befall the graphic whores as the ghost of 30fps lag grabs them by their Unrreal Engine V generic assetsthe greatest games of all time exist in part due to devs working around console technical limitations
>>538362005Gaming ended with Gamergate. The understanding was that the gaming industry was sacrificed to lay exposure to anti white anti male and anti personal sovereignty shilling.It was confused redditors who thought /pol/ was working to get them their hobby back. People who really do pay attention dropped the controller for good in 2014.
>>538362400Why would I give a shit about this when it doesn't benefit me as I am already too old to benefit from this?
>>538362005>Yes, this is political.Because you're a demoralizing glowie?Just because you can't get new slop doesn't mean you can't go enjoy some retro classics. IF you weren't such a massive faggot, you'd recall back when XBox announced you HAD to maintain a constant internet connection with a KINNECT spycam always on and only buy digital games.....just to walk that shit way back when they got their shit pushed back in. Put down the vidya, get a fucking life.
>>538363320I'm very envious of Asia's lack of anti-discrimination laws.They can just gatekeep the hags, fags, fag-hags and hag-fags OUT of their art spaces.
>>538362868Alternatively it could force more indie development of based shit instead of the AAA niggerloving we have now.
>THE END OF GAMINGGood.
>>538363755I thought about a Iran war themed RTS. Would pol pay for it?
>>538363719If the Western companies want to get rid of these clowns, they have an excuse to do it now. AI should be the excuse used for a great purge of trash from American companies.
>>538363557Gamergate and wokeness was the distraction and propaganda end of an attempt to use the gaming industry as another vessel for a cyclical pump and dump scheme. Only problem is, the pump and dump bounced right off the gaming industry and now gamers are more radicalized than ever. >gaming will end up like wrestling and nascarlmfao. LOL
>>538362005The AI-induced shortages are temporary. Economics will force unprofitable AI companies to slow down spending on it and they won't be able to buy up all of the memory with other people's money. That will cause a glut of computer components to flood the market and consumer hardware will be affordable again.It's still a couple years away but it will happen.
>>538362005Jews ruin everything.
>>538363875I probably wouldn't even torrent it.
>>538363979>>gaming will end up like wrestling and nascarIt's completely populated by retarded losers so yeah. It's just like wrestling and nascar. And another thing: in those days "woke" meant you subscribe to Afrocentrism.
>>538362868Blockbuster AAA crap with cinematic graphics and boring on-rails gameplay where you press X to win is what led us to where we are now. Gaming peaked in the 2000's when games had low poly graphics and developers were forced to make the gameplay good to make the games good. Those games were made by teams of like 30 dudes who were extremely passionate about making good games.We are more likely to return to that paradigm. AAA games are too expensive to develop and play. Games will have to get cheaper and better to be viable.
>>538364446He can always go with his buddies to conventions, thrift stores(in rural locations) or yard sales, etc.
>>538362005its literally the largest entertainment industry in the entire world large than movies and music combined
>>538362382>>538362661OP is just your usual demoralizer glowie. The vast majority of glowies here are constantly just trying to demoralize everyone they can. You see they've already responded with their ass-pull bullshit on why somehow it's just so much worse this time.
the american people are tired of women
>>538362005This is a manufactured collapse so AI companies can get the RAM. Screencap this post.
>rising ram pricesStop being fucking poor. Holy shit. I just bought 32gb ddr5 ram. 99% of games released these days are absolute dog shit.
>>538364029You're assuming this is just a speculative bubble and not a deliberate attempt to kill off PCs.If the conspiracy theorists are right, there won't be a "correction", just ever-increasing prices.The only "PC" most people will be able to afford will be a lobotomized terminal useless without an internet connection and cloud subscription.
>>538365189It's not deliberate. To move away from digital interfacing is a good thing.
>>538362400Musical instruments are way more fun than any video game, and I love video games. It's a shame how many people miss out.
>>538362005This schizoid argument always feels off to me.If they wanted to move everything to the cloud why wouldn't they have the infrastructure up BEFORE enacting the plan? And why aren't they pushing legislation that would then force people onto the cloud?And if they wanted to do it they'd need the buy-in of other businesses, but most IT teams I've spoken with are doing the exact opposite. Moving shit back on-prem that's critical and just biting the cost.Realistic answer as I see it? RAM producers, who have made small margins until recently are colluding to milk the fuck out of this. Likely also working with certain sectors of the AI and silicon industries more broadly to make it happen.
>>538366199But yeah. This 'death of gaming' talk is just schizoid babble. Too many powerful players have interests that run opposite that for it to ever happen. They'd have to make this a really long slow burn scheme over 20 years. And elite faggots only think in terms of the next quarterly meeting.
>>538366199Computing is dying because everyone who truly knows how they work is dead or senile. For a short time around the turn of the millennium the internet allowed mediocre people to advertise themselves as serious people. Now it's disappearing due to years of neglect and abuse. This is all very natural wild by nature stuff.
>>538364951how many paychecks did it cost you?
>>538366306Giant companies haplessly throwing money at shit that irrelevant trannies buy because they buy everything isn't a sign of life. That's just defibrilating a dead guy and saying the electrical spasms indicate life.
>>538366333What are you even talking about? Back-end engineers still exist. There's still people who understand fucking assembly.Hell I'm only in my 30s and I know ADA. I work with 20 somethings who do self hosting and in-depth network shit.Stop doomposting
>>538362005A huehue complains about getting things that were never intended for him.Gaming is an American activity. Everyone else just joined in because le American was doing it
>>538365189It's not a conspiracy lol. The problem is that PC components are very expensive to develop and they can only be sold at a profit if there is huge demand. Before the AI thing, memory manufacturers were operating at a loss. ChatGPT happened and suddenly everyone wanted to build these chat bot things that required a lot of memory, and there was demand for this product that the companies making it were basically giving away a year ago. The memory market is just inherently volatile like this.The demand driving up prices right now isn't sustainable. AI companies are already unprofitable as-is. Paying exorbitant prices for hardware doesn't help that. They will have to slow down with the buying and prices will come back down.
>>538366445There hasn't been one decent game from any major developing house in 12 years. Gaming is fucking dead and everyone knows it except for trannies who still believe 30 year old technology is the future.It doesn't matter how many people buy in because the buy in exists to insure that you remain a passive element.Even in the past games that endured were on the grounds of artistic value alone with little to no technical considerations.Just face it. It's over.
>>538362005Chinese RAM will save us
>>538366942China will absolutely not share their stolen IP with your stupid ass. Sooner or later you dumb Jews are going to realize white boomers were completely unique and you got caught murdering the only friend you ever had.
>>538362005I just play Asheron's Call.It shut down in 2017, but it was released to the public soon after, so you can still play it for free on the emulator.>https://emulator.ac/
>>538364685>OP is just your usual demoralizer glowie.Indeed. I've remarked on it before but there's a direct correlation between how much they fear /pol/ and how many demoralizing/destraction shills they send here. We've already infected most English language political discourse on Earth and I can only imagine what further apocalypse they're vainly trying to head off,
>>538367191Letting games die in the bed of bluehaireds they made for themselves is a good thing. Spamming the political process with communist mudshits isn't going to gain you back what you lost.
>>538362005I'm sure they'll be fine with switching over to a model where all the stuff is done on a central server and your PC just displays it.
>>538362005Who cares? All the best games have already been made if youre done playing whatever backlog then go play in the real world or whatever the saying is.
>>538362214>>538362285a bunch of devs from industry like me are building their own games. for example im building an occult based immersive sim, basically if Deus Ex, Control, Pathologic, Silent Hill had children then those children had children with Cruelty Squad.
>>538364446Physical discs have been download codes for at least a decade, and 99% of game boxes are otherwise empty. Genuinely don’t understand why it’s just now a problem. It’s just restarted funko-pop tier collecting to have the game boxes for their own sake. Can you imagine this presumably grown man going to GameStop in the year of our lord 2026 with his friends? The time of midnight releases and the gamer culture is so long gone, it was good times but it ended a long time ago, e3 hasn’t even been a thing for nearly 5 years now. Why only start complaining now?
>>538367501Bullshit. One person can't assume the sheer number of man hours needed beyond little pointy clicky browser games.
>>538362005Thank God I bought two sticks of g.skill flare x5 a year ago. My setup will run every game ive thrown at it at max settings while maintaining 60+ fps.
>>538367191Look! It's an allegory of Plato's Allegory of the Cave, but with a cat!
>Fucking GamerGate!lol, lefty.
>>538367662It's because the channels of distribution being used by activist level leftists are being taken away from them by the corporate finance level leftist who gave them their place.They have no one to turn to for help because they can no longer access any high talent white right wingers in any capacity. Every serious person has moved on from games.
>>538367690You're retarded, I and many of us did it in the 90's and i can do it today with tools far superior than back then. modern 3dsmax + photoshop with C++ core game engine is more than enough to build a 8-20 hour game in a year that can be sold for 20-45 bucks. hell if you use an existing engine like flax engine or something similar, you can reduce a significant amount of development time even further. shit if you use ai to generate stuff too you can get textures, models, music, ui, everything can be cleaned up instead of starting from scratch. I built a prototype a year ago using ai asset generation and i had more than enough assets to build a full game but decided i would go back to the drawing board and make something else because it wasn't as fun as i thought it would be.the hard part isn't the assets anymore with modern tools minus ai, it's coming up with a good game idea and having proper systems in place to make your game actually fun to play. if you throw ai into the mix you have a significant advantage on top of it. a single dev can craft the world exactly as they see it. adding people pollutes the vision.
>>538362005I dont think half life 3 could fix this shitstorm. there's so much vidya left on the cutting room floor from glorious nippon that could be rebooted but won't. actual kids are unironically getting into boomer hobbies faster than vidya becausethis shits beyond adult expensive. every platform is involved in some sort of dogshit tech bro vision of futurism like ol' zucc. I'm nostra-dumbass'ing a crash in under 10 years
>>538368091>yeah you can do it>well I scrapped it because it suckedDude just fucking stop.
>>538368267>half life 3Having been around for the original, I hve no idea why people gave a shit outside counterstrike. Original HL is fucking unplayably bad
>>538368319>knowing when not to release or continue with a game is retardeddo you know how many prototypes get scrapped by every studio since 3d gaming?there's probably tens of thousand games scrapped over time from all the studios since the DOS days all over the world. god you fucking retard shills are so bad at your job it's funny
>>538367690I mean I have made CS maps/Half life 2 levels on my own. I don't see why a small team of 2-3 people couldn't make a great ass game with an existing engine
>>538368384it was a big leap in graphics processing and game design. duke nukem came out two years prior.
>>538362868Idk this feels like the movies argument. Sure most movies coming out are shit but you have like decades of good ones fromt he past you've never seen. Same as vidya. There's games you've never played that are 10/10s theres mod overhauls which make games you've played or never played 10/10 theres community sources revivals of older games which are held in high regards that you've never played etc. Gaming is too consumer spam focused and gamer cattle are just so obsessed with cheap novelty experiences, they're half the reason things became so trash to begin with. The best thing we could see is a bunch of these companies just go under and new blood coming in to refresh the stale industry who's main staple titles have no business existing in reality as it is. I mean how the fuck is assassins creed even still a thing?
>>538362005console fags deserve this
>>538368530Ken’s Labyrinth, Frontier: Elite II, LineWars II, Nitemare 3D, Avara, Damocles / Mercenary III all were made by 1 dude in a short time frame during the DOS days. people like him are trying to stop single devs from knowing the secrets to game dev because they have no ambition and only consume and never create. the hostility is a common thing among players of games who see a single guy making a game and seethe because they couldn't do it themselves
>>538362005nahthey'll just promote cloud gaming
>>538368530>>538368526I'm aware of the potential. But if this was going to be a serious market alternative to the legacy developers it would have happened already. Open Source engines have been available for like ever. Why this is I don't know but something about this idea inherently doesn't work. In claiming to be familiar with game dev you shift the burden of proof upon yourself. Forgive me but I find your answers speculative and unsatisfactory.
>>538362005I hear the sentiment everywhere "Who cares about overpriced next gen consoles? My backlog will last the rest of my life!" Sony and Microsoft vastly overestimate people's need to have the newest, shiniest toy. Both consoles will flop while retro gaming continues to thrive. Meanwhile Nintendo will keep doing their own thing.
>>538368652yea but when it gets to that point games will get like one week peaks vs 6 month peaks, it's never been more over. even with kojimbo's new horror game
>>538368681>I'm aware of the potential. But if this was going to be a serious market alternative to the legacy developers it would have happened already.>Why this is I don't know but something about this idea inherently doesn't work.it has and does. Cruelty Squad was made by a single Finnish guy. minecraft was built by notch. see >>538368651 for dos era games made by 1 guy. there's plenty of other examples too. like total conversion mods for various games and other commercial success stories of 1 dev games>In claiming to be familiar with game dev you shift the burden of proof upon yourself. Forgive me but I find your answers speculative and unsatisfactory.sure sure, but you could google single developer games and see hundreds, and of them, there's quite a few commercial successes, and a few btfo industry hits. that's why you need to know when to fold em and when to hold em when you're developing, many just truck on through and build a shit game. but that's true with studios too. modern gaming is filled with multi million dollar failures
>>538362005Gaming has always been an expensive hobby, and I'm tired of you niggers pretending it wasn't. JUST BECAUSE SOMEONE ELSE BOUGHT YOUR ORIGINAL CONSOLE DOESN'T MEAN IT WAS CHEAP!
>>538368935I had a friend buy one on impulse when it came out played it and didn't like it and sold it used for like $100usd more kek
>>538362005Nah, it just means devs are gonna have to deal with designing for limited RAM again. I don't mind the market being filtered on such a technical detail.
>>538362005>are causing the "end" of gaming.You mean (((aaa gaming))), let it collapse
>>538362005What an assload of cope. You can play just about any game on an 800 dollar laptop, which nearly every normal nigger on Earth has. They just aren't fun and the realization that they ruin peoples lives and return nothing for outrageous time investment is too widespread. >but heckin GTA nobody asked them to make a game that can't run on computers. overrated trash anyway.
>>538368935There used to be value attached to the high price. The PS6 was still the cheapest Blu-Ray player at the time. And it was promising widescreen HD gaming which was a huge upgrade from the PS2. Graphics hit a plateau 10 years ago. There are PS4 games that look better than most PS5 games. What exactly is the selling point of the PS6, more intrusive AI assistants?
>>538362400They will all do drugs
>>538362005AAA is dying but who cares? At one point you needed a huge company to make a complicated game but hat's not the case anymore. At one point only a few studios could afford to make big movies and when that changed movies evolved.
>>538368896Okay.>Cruelty SquadThis is the problem with discord. You start mistaking your trannie plurality for a majority. No one has heard of Cruelty Squad>MinecraftEveryone thinks pedophile when they hear Minecraft.I said serious market alternative. Your tranny pipe dream does not meet criteria.
>>538369181>more masonic trashCreatively bankrupt all of you.
>>538369181We had experimental movies in the 70s and 80s because production was so cheap, studios could take risks. A movie that flopped in theaters could make a killing on home video and cable. Now movies are so much more expensive and less profitable (streaming killed DVD and cable) that studios need to play it safe. We could never get Raiders of the Lost Arc or Star Wars today. They would be way too risky.
>>538369205>No one has heard of Cruelty Squadare you retarded, that fin made over 2 million in sales from it. and you have absolutely heard of it, and seen it's game if you're on 4chan.shut the fuck up nigger >hurdur trannieswhy do you even think of these subhumans?>Everyone thinks pedophile when they hear Minecraft.why is your first thought, trannies and pedos? FBI check this guy's drive please.
>>538363112>drmnothing about that library is yours
>>538362005Just the opposite. Gaming is going to be reborn thanks to proliferation of AI. Now anybody can create any game they want. You don't actually need 30 professional programmers, you just need focus and time and your AI tokens
>>538362005>Gamer Gate doomed gamingwasn't this shit funded by Epstein money? I swear I read somewhere that some shit by that Anna Sarkesian bitch was funded by some shit he had money in. It's always the fucking Israelis.
>>538369257just because they're using symbolism doesnt mean anything, the devs were big fans of jrpgs who do that all the time just do be kinda edgy >>538369324the peak of the mcu will be remembered as well as star wars wasthere are far more tv and film productions being made today because of streaming to the point where it's a problem and talent is being spread too thin
>>538369513also just because someone read hermetic books and used it's stuff does a mason not make.
>>538369071The only value attached to the price was that most people couldn't afford it. That's why you brought your friends over to play split screen.
>>538366591>They will have to slow down with the buying and prices will come back down.They aren't going down again. Companies know we will pay these prices so they will continue to charge these prices.
>>538369597Is desperately posting for the last word on 4chan part of the game dev process? Forgive me but I admit I'm not familiar with the inner workings.
>>538369782>weHow about own your fucking decisions asshole.
>>538362005Vidya has been infiltrated by investors and activists gradually over the past 20 years, and they're a massive weight on the industry. Between devs directly catering to who will be preemptively buying them out (and thus not building games off of the consumer base), investors pushing well meaning devs toward endlessly larger audiences, access journalism making it impossible for customers to make intelligent choices, and companies outsourcing as much as possible first to cheap immigrants and now to AI, the entire industry is just rotted beyond hope.Luckily the indie market is almost completely unaffected by this, since the massive investor sphere hasn't latched onto them. AAA gaming is crashing and will continue to dip further, and smart gamers will either stick to indie or just play old games where you don't have to deal with increasing price/increasing file size/increasing production cycles/decreasing quality.
>>538369783it's 4th of july, nigger. i took today off to call you a nigger, specifically
USAE-1 Please Respond. Please Respond Over Please Respond.Now you can begin actually even, your journey of training to a firm grasp upon the obvious, not sludge gargling jeetzza in front of this hot aftermarket parts Pootergeist 3000, and with my help you will be the best. Let the highest form of training begin. I somehow dodged owning every Ballstation, and it adds to the high score now. Your best bet is to make a clear Game Boy Pocket with Metroid 2 and a Casio CA-53W your circle of friends. Your best bet is to land to rainy Zebes to stay there. In just one of those rains.
>>538369597yeah like jrpgs it's used in context of the villains
>>538362005>"end" of gaming.cool gaming needs less bloat
>>538362382I remember. I grew up playing Atari games when I wasn't outside harassing the wildlife.
>>538362868Companies will close because they drove off all the people that actually like games in favor of hiring blue haired feminist morons that want to shove their agendas into every story. Good riddance.
the one thing that could save vidya is virtual PC's of dev kits being free to the public
I doubt the architects at the top of our civilization will allow such an effective sink of the workers' free time, energy, focus, and mental bandwidth die off. Unless they plan to start actively, significantly reducing our numbers, that is.
>>538362976ET didn't cause the crash. It was a shit game but kinda impressive that it worked at all given the short time to make it. Fall into random pits to find candy and phone parts while scientists were trying to nab you lol. I think Eliot could help you I don't remember it's been decades.
>AAA gaming has sucked for many years>even indie devs are shit coders and use far too many computer resources even if the games are OKGaming literally died when the PS4 came out, it was almost over when the PS3 came out. If you aren't retro gaymen you're just fucking retarded.
>>538363215I've been playing Crimson Desert. Before that all old games. I still play old sierra games on my Tandy.
>>538362868Can I say Persona is the Vince Russo of Vidya?
>>538362005oh this might affect me in 10-15 years because i am that far behind in games...whats the point of being forced to be a tow truck driver in gta v and if i have to play a black i prefer a skinny one like CJ compared to a big one and how would a black man have driving power up when i never see black racing drivers?
>>538366199>why aren't they pushing legislation that would then force people onto the cloud?States like California already have laws banning computers that consume "too much" power.Expect more of this.Eventually the only computers that will be legal to sell will be dumb terminals."Gaming PCs" will be de facto illegal because they consume too much power.(Expect an underground trade in such PCs to develop.)
>>538372917>States like Californiai.e. Hollywood, which is paranoid about losing its monopoly on production of video entertainment to amateurs with powerful PCs.
>>538368548What is quakeRetard
