Weird 2010's gamer nationalism meets china bad.
"Oh no, kids won't be able to use games to escape reality now" — Good, have them play outside or read a book or something.
"Horrible, I couldn't live without games" — Yes, this law is attempting to help people before they become like you.
"New generations won't grow up to be gamers now" — How will society survive!
"It's about controlling freedom of thought" — Ah, yes, this will stop the great dialogue had by fourteen-year-olds in LoL game chats.
gaming can be cheap if you build a cheap pc (not rn entirely ofc with gpu pricing) for 500-600 dollars and pirate all the games.
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You need a place to play where the volume wouldn't be an issue. All the kids these days use a computer program and a DI box if they live in an apartment. Which is actually more expensive if you get programs that don't sound like shit, but the free ones are good enough to get people into it.
Also, for literally nothing you can download stuff that lets you play with MIDI. I don't know what programs are best because I can't stand fake instruments most of the time, but many people love MIDI. I bet if I was introduced to it when I was in middle school I would be one of those people.
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Those sound like shit and are a lot less fun to play through headphones as a result. Playing through headphones with amps like that feels like dry practice, if that makes sense.
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Can get an epiphone dot and a hotrod deluxe for that much.
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The gpu shortage is a temporary anomaly in the same way COVID stopping people from going to concerts is a temporary anomaly.
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There has been like two or three temporary gpu shortages due to crypto at this point. This current shortage is agrivated by the chip shortage. The majority of the crypto part of the shortage is already over, and now it's almost entirely a shortage of memory chips that is driving it. Once that is resolved things will be back to normal.
There are Ryzen APUs which are still widely available and will run most games perfectly fine.
https://youtube.com/c/LowSpecGamer
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isn't there initial costs for other hobbies as well? you need camping equipment to camp, musical instruments to play music, hiking equipment for hiking.
my cousin plays gta on his 300 dollar laptop that his dad bought for online classes. while it won't get a billion fps or look photo realistic, it works fine for him. gaming can be expensive or cheap, like almost every other hobby.
the budget pc+pirated game combo i mentioned is very popular in "developing" countries.
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