Putting it in a bigger box with more cooling capacity will always make a much faster computer, so that’s not going away anytime soon and someone will always find a way to use 20% more power than is available every time a faster computer is made. A lot of things just come down to how well you can cool something, engines, brakes, lights, computers, batteries… how hard do you want to go and how long do you want to do it often determines the form of things.
My computer fits on my desk as it is so making it smaller gains me nothing and just makes it less useful.
Maybe tower PCs will become slightly more niche again in the future, but they’ll always be around for enthusiasts like me.
Need for Speed Unbound.
The stakes are just too high and the limit on time and funds you can safely earn just makes it feel stressful when it should be fun.
I can get the appeal of the risk/reward but it crosses the line from exciting and tense to anxiety inducing for me.
On top of that the game was kind of unstable on release and if you crashed it counted as losing the race and your wager etc and you cannot load an earlier save or anything, if that was the case the whole game would actually be decent apart from the lack of event variety.
The logistics just boggle the mind. It’s an interesting concept I do want to explore and will when I have some time to look into it deeper. I think I know what you are saying a little better, I just can’t envision it working in such a global economy that’s required to give people a high quality of life.
Also I don’t think the choice ever should be shit job or starve, I just don’t think you need to eliminate the concept of money or regulated “free markets” to do that. In a rational market system you gain a lot of efficiency by having it steer people to more efficient processes and encourage people to do the difficult or unpleasant things that need done with rewards.
We value similar things we just have different ideas of how you get there.
How do I get a computer? My neighbors do not make computers. The next 100 towns over don’t either. (at least not in whole) Do I go to the computer people in taiwan with a bunch of stuff the engineers and manufacturing technicians need? How much time would I have to spend to do that? Wouldn’t it be nice if we agreed on a medium of exchange that represented my labor, fair share, or value to society that I could just send electronically and could be exchanged again locally for what they need specifically?
It sure is the way we lived naturally in small tribes, but that’s not tenable at a certain point and it’s why almost every society that has grown to a sufficient size to make good use of it has invented some form of currency.
Money isn’t the problem, it’s the way it’s used.
Also society is so large there’s no way to have that level of accountability for everyone unless you create some neofascist social credit system.
Uncontacted tribes also don’t have advanced medicine (though not to say they haven’t discovered a great deal of important things on their own) or well… videogames. If you want to live like that more power to you, but for all the faults of modern society it has massive benefits as well.
I think there’s plenty of middle ground to be found where we can have our cake and eat it too even if it looks wildly different from what we have now. Gift economies just don’t work when you have billions of people involved. It’s ultimately more efficient to give people money and then they can spend it on what they need or want. Even the idea of a corporation or company isn’t inherently broken, people will always have a need to organize themselves to create efficiencies and build bigger things than they could on their own.
Capitalism is shit, the concept of money, and organized labor, is quite good.
Unless you have bleeding edge hardware yes, the highest end stuff usually requires that you dissipate 600+w of heat continuously at full tilt. I’m fine with running the hardware just below it’s stock throttling limits (which are well below safety cutoffs) which these days is in the 90s. It’s just kind of the reality of it if you don’t want to experience what it’s like to game on the deck of an aircraft carrier or go through the trouble of water-cooling everything.
FWIW I’ve put a lot of cards through this kind of “abuse” and then handed them down, they all worked for many years after.
My GPU is even hotrodded with the fans and shrouds removed and two side panel fans close to it, and the gaps sealed with gaffers tape to improve static pressure. Works really well but still, it’s a lot of heat to move out of a relatively small device.