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You're making a lot of assumptions here. > First games waste a lot of electrical power. A modern GPU is what at its peak? 500 watts? A modern CPU isn't too far
by wiseowise 4y ago
You're making a lot of assumptions here.
> First games waste a lot of electrical power. A modern GPU is what at its peak? 500 watts? A modern CPU isn't too far off. That's 1kwh that per gamer that gets turned into heat and lootboxes.
Majority of gamers are smartphone users and mid to low machines.
https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/Steam-Hardware-Software-Survey-Welcome-to-Steam?platform=combined https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/Steam-Hardware-Softw...
> 2nd technological game progress means that computers/gpus are considered obsolete too fast. Back in the day your home computer would last over a decade until you had to throw it away and buy new hardware.
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> 3rd (young) people wasting a lot of time in computer games. Teenagers waste their youth infront of a screen over going out and enjoying the world in their prime. Leading to adults that lack life experience and get depressed/anxious easily. (Mental health crisis)
Bitcoin users waste their life chasing gambling schemes and then killing themselves.
https://www.jumpstartmag.com/are-crypto-related-suicides-a-real-problem/ https://www.jumpstartmag.com/are-crypto-related-suicides-a-r...
> 4th modern game design makes games pretty much a gateway drug to gambling addiction.
What's "modern game design"? Gachas existed for a long time, single player games exist and are wildly popular.
> 5th spending all that time sitting means it's an enormous health care crisis. Pair that with the deregulated dopamine cycle in game addicted people and you can easily see how this leads to over eating and obesity. Which is even more of a cost to society.
Got something to back that up?