Yeah feature parity made sense in the beginning so the S didn't get left behind but at this point its place feels secure to me. It's the cheap option. I think most gamers understand that and accept the trade-offs that are inherent in that choice.

Every time we get more horsepower they mostly devote it to graphics that look slightly more spectacular. Booooooring

The difference is that the west outsourced the war to the Africans. It's probably costs more than direct intervention but they get a compliant country that they can use for profits and whatever else, and none of the risk to human life. I wouldn't call that progress, just neocolonialism

Total agreement. His message was revolutionary.

It's capitalism. Driving the economy by profit means that each company has to race to obtain as much profit as possible, or risk losing to their competitors who are trying to do the exact same thing.

I've been testing music servers lately so this is perfect timing!

In this vein, sudokuslam.com is cool too

This is my exact scenario and thinking

Only if a search sends me there and other links aren't giving me what I need

I need someone smarter than me to come up with all the ways this could go wrong. It sounds cool to me but I don't know anything

Nah I don't think so. What people do in a simulation can approximate what they'd do in real life with no consequences but in real life there are always consequences. And most people need to see themselves as the hero in their own story so they won't do things that they perceive as evil.

It seems to me that most individual people think they are right in whatever they're doing. Including voting for Trump, being hateful, etc.

There are too many downsides that are too severe and won't change unless we change the system. I suggest you research the successes of communism. The USSR accomplished a lot and there are other examples like Cuba