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  • I match the average stated in the article. 5 years for a new build (CPU socket change is how I define that) since 2002. 2-3 years for GPU. Not counting 90’s family computers since that wasn’t my own money. Or laptops/mini PC.

    Today I’ve reached my usual upgrade period but I didn’t this time. 5-6 year gap since my last builds last done in 2020 and 2021. The GPU remains the most frequent upgrade I still do. The rest dropped off…sort of. I bought a NAS that changed how I deal with storage. Gets complicated. Anyways, I don’t think I would’ve done a new desktop build for another 3 years at least even if things hadn’t gone to shit. Now with corpo AI bubble and daily global fascist tantrums jacking up prices? Hard to say. 8-10 years looks realistic?

    Just comes down to performance and I’m not feeling any pinches yet with the two towers, a Ryzen 5800X in the office and Core i5 12600 in the living room. Office PC only gets living room hand-me-downs from now on. My gaming habits have changed a lot I’m primarily a couch PC gamer now.




  • The hate mainly stems from how I see it less as art and more as a money grab because it failed to win me over, so I don’t begrudge anyone for liking them that’s just a personal hang up I’m inconsistent about.

    Read The Hobbit as a kid too! I’ve watched the movies only once in their original form and then a fan edit. The fan edit was on the originaltrilogy forum (or at least was at one point in time) that cut down The Hobbit movie trilogy into a much better IMO single movie. Dropping a lot of The Silmarillion material.

    The Ring of Power I didn’t try to watch. Wheel of Time left me so disappointed and then I kept hearing nothing good about Amazon’s other fantasy series :p

    Edit: What do you think of Stephen Colbert making an upcoming movie out of a few ommited from the Jackson movies chapters of the first LOTR book?


  • I only posted regret not timeline…could’ve written that better. It was 2020 (AMD 4700U) and was used until 2026 but spent the last two years in the garage running an OBD-1 diagnosis program for an old truck and playing music over bluetooth. It just stayed on outdated kernel until it got replaced. Steam Deck replaced its original purpose. A mini PC replaced it in the garage this year.


  • Easily I’ll admit that I love this super bloated 3 parter stretching way past the original’s content. I like the filler because I like the games. That’s subjective opinion. Nothing nostalgia baits me harder than FF7. I don’t even like most of the series. There’s flaws. Time janitors reek of Kingdom Hearts (derogatory) in the worst way and makes my eyes roll harder than anything. I wanted to strangle Chadley to death by the mid point of Rebirth. The high points make up for it, personally.

    It doesn’t always work out, I hate The Hobbit movies with a passion. These games aren’t ruining anything for me.

    But this self sucking corporate mythology narrative making the OG seem like more than it was is nauseating. Just own it, cowards. FF7 could’ve been remade without stretching it.