Can we finally put to bed that "they want to rent you a computer so you never own anything" nonsense? They *can't* rent you a computer. It costs more for them to rent you the computer than to sell you the computer. Why would they do the thing that makes them far less money? Think!

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To stream a game it means a dedicated GPU and CPU for every. Single. Player. Everyone connected needs their own system, but in addition to that they need to cover the massive amount of bandwidth needed to stream it to you AND the electricity to run the thing. There is no plot to kill home PCs.

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Well.... They might have a plot. It's not competent, well thought out, or financially viable. It's the "Plan 9 from Outer Space" of computing.

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Now, there is in fact short-sightedness, greed, stupidity and incompetence killing the home electronics market. That's absolutely true. But it's not a plot. Your pattern-matching is lying to you. Sometimes things are bad because very rich people are a bunch of fuckups.

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They are anti West. That’s it. Notice how these people only invoke international law when it’s the west supposedly violating it. When it’s the enemy of the west, it’s only western propaganda for war. It’s quite clear that they want dictators to do as they please and the West to be sitting duck

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