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   Pleroma-tan (kirby@lab.nyanide.com)'s status on Tuesday, 06-Feb-2024 08:15:25 JST Pleroma-tan
   video games should probably be designed with reasonably old hardware in mind, would like to be able to run modern video games on my thinkpad x220
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     PC-9801 Enjoyer (pawlicker@bae.st)'s status on Tuesday, 06-Feb-2024 08:20:48 JST PC-9801 Enjoyer

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     @kirby I should make a blog post about this honestly, the problem is game developers don't think like 90s home computer devs do and make games that run on anyone's PCs.
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     PC-9801 Enjoyer (pawlicker@bae.st)'s status on Tuesday, 06-Feb-2024 08:25:17 JST PC-9801 Enjoyer

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     @kirby I also remember when an 8800GT could run every game still and now a RX480 struggles to run many PC games.
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     Pleroma-tan (kirby@lab.nyanide.com)'s status on Tuesday, 06-Feb-2024 08:34:39 JST Pleroma-tan

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     @mischievoustomato @Pawlicker the definition of reasonably old can be extended to hardware released sometime after 2010 and into early 2011. my thinkpad just so happens to fall into that range
     
     i have about 8 gigs of ram and an i5 that wouldve probably been considered "okay" at the time. seems like the sort of hardware your average all in one has today. except all modernish games run like shit because they werent exactly developed with the mindset of "how can we squeeze the most performance out of the hardware we're running on?" that games like doom or quake had.
     
     seems like a pc that should be able to run a lot of things fine, but can barely handle a web browser starting up without an ssd upgrade.
     
     of course hardware being too old is definitely a thing, i don't think anyone wants to deal with pcs released in the stone age that have Pentiums and 512 mb of ram. that era has long gone.
     
     point being, why did developers not keep this mindset into a new era.
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     Johnny Peligro (mischievoustomato@rebased.taihou.website)'s status on Tuesday, 06-Feb-2024 08:34:40 JST Johnny Peligro

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     tbf a x220 is far too old
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     PC-9801 Enjoyer (pawlicker@bae.st)'s status on Tuesday, 06-Feb-2024 08:41:42 JST PC-9801 Enjoyer

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     @kirby @mischievoustomato >point being, why did developers not keep this mindset into a new era.
     
     Blank checks to write to your employer and pretending gaming is in 2007 with Crysis coming out.
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     Pleroma-tan (kirby@lab.nyanide.com)'s status on Tuesday, 06-Feb-2024 08:50:23 JST Pleroma-tan

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     • Johnny Peligro
     @Pawlicker @mischievoustomato okay
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     BiggusDiccus (biggusdiccus@poa.st)'s status on Tuesday, 06-Feb-2024 12:00:29 JST BiggusDiccus

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     Where's your blog fren?
     @kirby
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     Pleroma-tan (kirby@lab.nyanide.com)'s status on Tuesday, 06-Feb-2024 12:07:59 JST Pleroma-tan

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     @BiggusDiccus @Pawlicker https://pleromanonx86.wordpress.com/