The much goofier version of this blog post in video form —> https://youtu.be/2R1Wml-VU0Q
Once I became an adult, my interest for computer hardware tanked. When I was younger it was a completely different world compared to the consoles, you could do anything you wanted. Mod skyrim with naked anime girls, download pirated games, and meet strangers on the internet. I drooled over having a gaming PC and dreamed about it every day. I would constantly watch videos on building PC’s, modding games, you name it. I was so obsessed with the idea of building a gaming PC, I would join these survey websites and fill out surveys like a sweatshop worker for hours and hours at time. Then I was eventually able to buy my first stick of RAM with my fake survey cash.
Once it arrived in the mail, my dad came up to me and he was like “what the fuck is this?”. I told him I wanted to build a computer and he was fully against that idea because it was like crack to me. I loved being in front of screens, gaming consoles, computers, I could spend all day with the blinds shut and my eyes glued on them. They didn’t like the idea since I was a fatty, I’d eat lean cuisines all day in my boxers in the living room and fail all of my classes in middle school.
They tried to hide the computers, lock them down, not like in a prison type way. More of like a ‘Matt should probably get better grades’ type of way. But this is what helps you learn, being caught in these situations of locked out computers, low spec hardware and limited resources. They had this 2006 Macbook pro and my little fatty self, youtubed on the TV how to get into it.
I made my own user account through single user mode and would use it when my dad went to work, I also had some crappy android 2.0 phones that I would hide. Everything was a resource to me, if it had a screen and WIFI I’d use it. Especially if they didn’t know about it having that. Including my PSP.
Holy crap, I’m ranting but what I’m getting to is that hardware no longer excites me like it did in the past. When I was younger there were two shots at upgrade game every year, Christmas or your birthday. It was a blast seeing the performance upgrades and showing up your friends with fancy low tier graphics card or CPU haha.
But now, it’s like what does this all mean to me? I’ve had a GTX 1080, ultrawide monitor. Everything to run games amazingly. Now it’s like what else is there? I can save for several months and get better hardware, but is it worth the diminishing value over time? Now it’s like just give me what I need that gets the job done. If it fits into my ecosystem of technology garbage and doesn’t get shoved into the bin in my closet, I couldn’t ask for more.
It’s so easy to accumulate dumb shit. Random peripherals, outdated computer hardware and tablets. It all just gets to be so much of a organization nightmare. I spent 4 hours the other day doing a deep clean of my room and organizing all of the stupid stuff that I’ve bought over the past few years.
That’s why I ended up buying an Xbox One and a PS4, just for the fact that it just works. I don’t mind the controllers, I don’t mind the graphics. Sure the capabilities are hindered compared to the thing under our desk but they do just as they should. Play games, and it shines in one particular area compared to the PC. The player base for games are much less volatile. With the PC there are a handful of multiplayer games that I can spend thousands of hours on, but no one plays them since there are too many games. With the consoles, they have a line up of games and they usually maintain player bases for the life of the consoles. With the PC, you’re stuck to the few games that are culted by competitive koreans if you wanna play for a few years and have a large amount of people to play against.
That’s my only gripe with PC. Other then that, It’s still the master race.