/u/outwrangle before everything went to shit in 2020, /u/emma_lazarus for a while after that, now I’m all queermunist!
I, for one, hate the way PC gamer culture has normalized hardware obsolescence. Your hobby is just for fun, you don’t really need to gobble up so much power and rare Earth minerals and ever-thinner wafers all to just throw away parts every six months.
I have plenty of fun playing ascii roguelikes and I do not respect high performance gaming. It’s a conservationist nightmare.
It’s conservationist, reducing hardware requirements to lengthen the lifetime of old hardware.
Whatever. The phrase “Christmas is cancelled” forced me to remember the fact that Christmas is literally cancelled in Bethlehem, with the articles about it often directly saying the phrase “Christmas is cancelled”
I was struck by how petty and small this whiney video is when compared to places where Christmas is literally cancelled.
Christmas is canceled in Bethlehem because of the ongoing genocide in Gaza.
Y’know, for the sake of comparison.
Fuckhuge trucks that roll coal are fun for some people too, but fuck em.