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0 pointswhywhywhywhy5y ago0 comments

> Ban their trade because global society shouldn't accept rampant incentives to literally burn up energy

Videogames run GPUs at full capacity too, we should ban them too. No one NEEDS to pretend to be a cowboy for 100+ hours each across 36 million GPUs.

Actually maybe there should be a ban on computing power above mobile CPUs available to non-government bodies, if this really is so devastating to the environment we need to limit the amount of damage people can cause as individuals, why does a normal person need a GPU anyway when smart phone graphics should be enough.

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goda905y ago· 1 in thread

But gamers aren't buying up dozens of GPUs each to pretend to be a cowboy, and they don't pretend to be a cowboy 24/7.

whywhywhywhyOP5y ago

They might only have one GPU each but there are a lot more of them, if even half of all people who bought RDR2 complete it that would be similar to 1.5 billion GPU hours of crypto mining (Eth for example).

32 million bought it, takes about 100 hours to complete runs GPU full capacity.

If we're going to say using GPU computing power is bad for the environment then we can't just stop at crypto because it's convenient. We have to look at all computing and videogames isn't something that should be considered essential either.

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