I find myself quite different from the vast majority of the "gamers" community when it comes to pc hardware, graphical settings and performance: I feel that, in this time, you can achieve a great level of graphical details and performance with medium-to-low hardware. With high end hardware, the results are noticeable BUT not life changhing and after you're immerged in a good 3D game in Full HD, I stop paying much attentions to details. Still, people keep spending a lot of money on new products. I have the same approach to many things in life (TV, cars etc). What's your position in the system?
Currently on: Guild Wars 2
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In the last year, Technical progress had not the same impact on me like it used to have:
On the pc side, I bought a ryzen 1500x / 16 gb ram ddr4 / 250 gb SSD and rx 570 pulse 4gb with a full HD 24 " monitor: I don't see how I would need anything more!
Smartphones even more: used to be a big enthusiast, now I'm seeing new models that cost more and more without having any significative improvement. I bought a Huawei P9 lite for less than 200 €, and screen resolution is still pointlessly high and I would've survived with "only" 2 Gb of RAM
TV screen: I renounced to the whole living room!
When I lived with my parents we had 2 TV screens in the house and I've almost never used those from 16 to 25. I didn't like the idea "cable" programs and boundaries, the process of moving a good film from the pc to the TV wasn't easy and the TVs in the evening were usually occupied by my parents.
Right before moving out, I was planning to build a good living room with 4k oled TV and speakers and stuff like that... Until I realized that I had been watching tons of movies and TVs series from full HD screens and earphones for a very long time and you know what? I enjoyed them a lot, cause the core experience was very much there. I realized I already needed to set a corner with pc and desk and I were going to keep watching movies on my PC, saving thousands of € in the process!