When You Realize How Old Everything Is

When You Realize How Old Everything Is
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That moment when your high-end gaming rig with 32GB RAM and RTX 4090 can barely handle a remastered version of a game from 2003. You excitedly select "Auto Detect Quality" expecting it to max out everything, only for the system to take one look at the spaghetti code underneath the shiny new textures and go "Yeah... let's set this to medium." Your $3000 machine just got humbled by legacy code that was written when 512MB of RAM was considered excessive. The real remaster was the existential crisis we gained along the way.

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