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I am probably not that informed on who does what artificially and intentionally, but I still don’t see a point in justifying gaming usage over crypto usage. As far as destroying the planet argument goes, gamers could equally be limited to using a specifically designed devices for optimal gaming and entertainment purposes.

Apart from the ability to check the GPU health, GPU providers could easily implement some hardware “calculation counter” or design specific solution so resell value could be more easily evaluated.

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> As far as destroying the planet argument goes, gamers could equally be limited to using a specifically designed devices for optimal gaming and entertainment purposes.

gamers frequently are, you just described a console.

Yes, I did. Intentionally. If you forbid consumer GPUs for both sides, limit or cripple the gaming tech development in a sense it offers lower variety of products, you are going to see a lower demand for gaming in general. Thus, “saving the planet”.

It’s not something I propose, but giving hypothetical example of what would really be fair for both sides

>gamers could equally be limited to using a specifically designed devices for optimal gaming and entertainment purposes.

We are trying, but crypto-bros are buying our cards. C'mon pay a bit more attention.

If video games are that important to you buy a video game console. The availability there is also bunk and has nothing to do with mining - claiming something which uses energy is automatically 'bad' is silly and relies on common ignorance and frustration. Cars use energy, lights use energy, video games use energy - crypto is new and you don't understand it past that fact that it uses energy so you can't tolerate it. If you don't want to get rid of everything which uses considerable energy then you need to determine the value of each thing individually, and if you say crypto is worthless, you should have a non-circular reason for that claim. Clearly the market disagrees with you.

>If video games are that important to you buy a video game console.

and play PC games how? for some reason I thought people around here were smart

Trust me, I'd take your problem seriously if only those cards would speed up growing up for you, guys.

I hope you dont have hobbies, since apparently hobbies are now childish.

Maybe you should grow up a bit :)

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