@f4micom that's a talk for your central banker my dear,
the holy grail of any business was grabbing the mass market, the richest piece of the pie, it no longer being so has little to do with players in the game -capitalism- and all to do with those messing up the score -money-
@HardwareUnboxed for someone that just wants to game and is sick of microslop and consoles, this might just work,
it's okey pricing for what it is, given current market
@mmjukic because paradise, once achieved to whatever degree, changes incentives so that inheritors never keep progress going for long, they don't have to,
you've seen the meme
@HardwareUnboxed there's always been forever games with unambitious graphics and plenty of fans that only play that,
this stagnation is not just game devs and artists hitting a ceiling, maybe when mainstream finally dies we get crysis 9000 requiring threadrippers and SLI resurrection
@TheMindScourge Vietnam simply carried on as yet another isolated commie land, Iran would carry on controlling a fifth of world commerce,
the Vietnam expense was at least a major accelerant in killing Bretton woods in 71, which I would say matters a lot.