Mastodawn

Feb 7, 2025

Hmm, apparently when people say to you "this hardware is decade old, you can't expect it to run games at 1080p", and you respond that it's absurd — you get blocked 🤔

Oh well, let me repeat it for the entire room: the notion that a 5-10 year old piece of hardware is somehow incapable of doing the most basic thing in this day and age is a capitalist lie propagated by corporations which would love for you to keep buying their luxury-priced hardware year after year. It's a consumeristic mindset.

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Yuri

Feb 7, 2025

In just a few short years we've switched from blaming the studios for releasing unoptimized mess to blaming the consumer for not owning the latest and greatest piece of hardware on the market.

Games are not luxury, they are at the base of human life. You don't need to own a 5090 and a 4K display to be able to play games. You should be able to play games with a hardware that you've managed to save up for 5-10 years ago. Budget PCs are the core of the player base. They are the majority.

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Tom Schultz

@yurisizov Also, the devs that are pushing this tech forward are going to get bodied by the Roblox generation that grew up on terrible graphics and an infinite sea of free(mium) games.