Yeah I grok what you're saying. I personally only game in short bursts so it's not a big deal to me to let the machine spend a whole damn day downloading fallo

Yeah I grok what you're saying. I personally only game in short bursts so it's not a big deal to me to let the machine spend a whole damn day downloading fallout over a 10Mb DSL line. I mean, that was better than spending the whole night DLing Commander Keen. My view is that there's a certain amount of time that I'm willing to wait for certain interactions, and that's pretty consistent regardless of the tech stack. So if I have to wait a bit, I do. I'm far less patient with things like keyboard shortcuts, UX interactions... but I feel like a lot of those really have gotten way, way better (like, no more floppies). Perforamnce is just one aspect of UX, and while you're right that it could obviously be better, there are so many other parts that are so much better (and performance really isn't worse that it was when I was playing Police Quest V).