>>723744564
Never. PC gaming got me out of my dead-end degree program as an electrical engineer and into the wonderful world of IT Infrastructure. Dropped out of college and saved a fortune from that and immediately climbed the ranks to where I am today as the lead engineer for infrastructure for a tri-state government organization. I build out, maintain, optimize, deploy and manage multi-million dollar datacenters for a living now. All because of the self-paced learning I was able to do thanks to an over-built gaming PC back in 2011. I love my job, set my own hours, lead my own team, get to research and work on whatever I am interested in and only answer to my CIO who only checks in to make sure I'm still happy where I'm working or help with some super niche issue once a month.
These days my gaming PC is helping me grow in new ways thanks to my 5090 FE. Have been testing usage of LLMs and agentic systems for the past 6 months and thanks to the 5090 I was able to proof a system at home which is in the process of deployment into production for said government due to complete December of this year. Will allow me to downsize a lot of cost (replace 6 different 500k-1mil software vendor contracts with a home grown system) and push that savings into my/my team's salary and more physical infrastructure rather than some shitberg faggy company like Microsoft.
God bless American and God bless PC gaming.

>>718249020
RIP Visceral Games. You made the best spinoff ever. It would have been a success if you dropped the name "Battlefield" from the title and just called it Hardline.

>>717759037
I'd love a remake of Origins provided they change literally nothing but improve the graphics. Maybe expand the tactics system.

>>717108169
Mine has always featured Dante from the Devil May Cry series. Current avatar. Most recently boomer Dante drinking monster zero.