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without gamers modern neural networks and GPGPU computing won't exist.
the 'useless shiny distracting idiot boxes' are driving market forces that shape your experience, though
you're probably thinking of oneself as unaffected by consumerism and being above the plebs:
you're using products that depend on masses buys and selecting for the next 'useless shiny distracting idiot box' due economic factors of scale - and unless you program your own FPGAs and microcontrollers the hardware is what the market dictates it to be.