Niq: I'm a graphics dev and I 100% wish I could go back to the hardware we had like 10-20 years ago. I had a bunch of cool ideas I never got to try out! I feel so much less skilled now because it's all a dark mysterious box of brute force and magic and I can't really control it any more.

we need to stop making computers more powerful they're as powerful as they need to fucking be. graphics don't need to get better at this point and GPUs shouldn't be used for ai or farming. we need to focus on making the tech we currently have consume less power.

I'm a graphics dev and I 100% wish I could go back to the hardware we had like 10-20 years ago. I had a bunch of cool ideas I never got to try out! I feel so much less skilled now because it's all a dark mysterious box of brute force and magic and I can't really control it any more.

I mean...you can always build a vintage computer. People be out here rebuilding ibms from the 80s. Surely a 2000's era build wouldnt be that hard?

the issue we're talking about is the shift in culture and tech and changes to industry standards. you can make things on old hardware, but you can't exactly use that to do graphic design work in current day.

Yeah nobody's gonna pay me to go back to writing assembler on PS3 hardware, lol. It's a shame, I was really good at it!

Mayhaps set up a patreon and run tutorials on how to do that? Teach people how to make homebrewed ps3 games.

Eh I have no idea how to make homebrew PS3 games! I've always specialised in graphics things on teams with like 30 other people doing the other bits.

Thank you for explaining. I mistook the original post for a different kind of nostalgia I suppose.

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