HumanBehaviorByBjork [any, undecided]

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Cake day: July 26th, 2020

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  • i mean, what do you already own? you really don’t need special equipment to enjoy video games. just a mouse (and mousepad), keyboard, and some speakers or headphones. the only thing really worth shelling out for if you find yourself playing team games online a lot is a decent microphone or headset. peripherals branded “for gamers” are usually overpriced and underbuilt, so unless you really want the removed LEDs don’t feel pressured.

    if you really want fancy stuff, there’s a whole mechanical keyboard hobby that you could spend months and hundreds on chasing a particular experience, but if you just want A Mechanical Keyboard, other than finding a model M at your local thrift store, I’d say go to your local electronics store and see if they’re stocking any of Redragon’s budget offerings. They’re almost as good as Razer at half the price.















  • I keep coming back to this sense that technological advancement has just sort of hit a wall. In the last 20 years we’ve seen processing power become cheaper and not much else. This has given us new, arguably shittier forms of mass media, but nothing really different. And notably it’s given us a parade of bullshit and bubbles pretending to be the Next Big Thing. The VR dream keeps recurring in various forms, 3D displays, 3D printing, blockchain, the gig economy, “AI,” almost everything in the “green” apocalypse mitigation field, and now I guess cold fusion.

    The only thing I can see as having real potential is quantum computing, because scaling it up would obsolete fundamental security features of almost every computer on the planet, but that’s still in the early experimental phase and the bullshit artists haven’t figured out how to market it widely.