Insert Disk #4287

Insert Disk #4287
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So Moore's Law says computing power doubles every couple years, right? Cool. Storage gets cheaper, SSDs get bigger, everything's peachy. But somehow game developers looked at that exponential growth and said "challenge accepted."

Your PC gets more powerful. Games get bigger. Your storage cries in the corner. It's like watching two exponential curves race each other, except one is your poor 1TB SSD watching Call of Duty demand 250GB for the third update this month.

The real kicker? PC power is barely staying ahead. That gap between the blue and red lines? That's the only reason you can still install more than two AAA games at once. Give it another year and we'll be back to the floppy disk era, except instead of "Please insert disk 2 of 4" it'll be "Please delete 3 games to install this 400GB texture pack you'll never notice."

Moore's Law 2 isn't a law of physics—it's a law of spite.

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