Nice post, Auzner. For me PC is an instrument (like a piano or violin for eg.), the better “sound” you want - the more expensive it is and you should know how to operate and configure it.
Hopefully my Computer will play this.
Auzner
(Auzner)
#22
I some reason can never appropriately summarize the topics I think of.
When you put it like that I think especially of camping (which I have experience with to discuss). You have to either have some basic shelter/fire/food/safety knowledge, or else buy all of your food, rent a cabin, and just go on day hikes in the area. You don’t get a full camping experience but you’re still away out in nature all the same. It easily makes sense to people and they never ask, “why does furnished cabin and delivered meals cost more than four whole trips with a tent, knife, and pot?” Or: “Why are four season tents so expensive? Why is all lightweight gear so expensive? Everything of mine is too heavy and should just be lighter because of the fact they’re camping resources.” Same reasoning as “windows machine is windows machine.”
That really works too. If I know hardly anything about instruments surely most people at least understand they can be expensive. Like a portable Yamaha keyboard vs a Steinway grand piano.
Computer gaming is not a magazine or DVD. I think the fact it’s electronic entertainment some how creates a united social belief that everyone is entitled to the best of it. You can either buy a bunch of kick ass light weight water proof camping gear, or buy cheap heavy stuff and don’t do backpacking or even avoid a tent. None of that stuff is free and you’ll already have plans to buy something else for you next trip. Or you hated camping and will never go again. It’s great to have upgraded equipment that’s lightweight for backpacking though.
Computers aren’t free and someone will encounter a program they can’t run. Rather than reason that they need a better system (spend more money) they will conclude computers are not viable for gaming. That’s like going camping and blaming your cheap gear for falling apart. “My folding chair ripped, camping is not a viable activity. My $20 tent was missing a pole, no one is going to camp anymore in the near future. I didn’t bring enough food for everyone, camping is too complicated to plan for and will be gone in a generation. I had to spend $5 to enter the park, camping should be free, no one will come to this park anymore and it will die.” Somehow an opinion on someone’s experience becomes like the nature of the hobby. “Oh well a random stranger said this, I should feel the same way they because they did it and I didn’t. I obviously can’t know any better or objectively judge them.”
Nail
(Nail)
#23
camping was fun when I was younger, spent a summer living in my Mini, but now I just rent a houseboat for 5 days, best of everything