just as novels are a trojan horse for truth, video games are a trojan horse for tech mastery and innovation
- all the senior devs and tech leads i know got into coding because of video games
- both bitcoin proof-of-work and LLM's grew thanks to gaming graphics cards
Gaming is one of the few applications that will use the entirety of your system (sound, video, math co-processing, various input devices, etc).
In the past, I have theorized that all of computing relies on gaming for it's progress.
All the way back to the early days of silicon when the most powerful computers were chess systems...
It also took a long time for them to get good enough to beat humans
Proof that video games should be outlawed
