Out of Pod Experience

Sure, but remember to whom you are addressing here. Sure it's a game community, but it's a polished out old game. This may be a factor in the types of people in the community. We may have older computers that we squeeze every ounce of life out of, and then find other uses for when it's really just too old for most stuff, but useful for other tasks. I mean it's one thing to have the technical skill levels to run a new computer, but another to keep something going indefinitely, even to the superior skill levels required, even antiquated in all it's forms, but with the mix of the contemporary and the classic.

Even the things we look for when buying, such as in smartphones. Yes there are the disposable kinds, but then there are the kinds that you can root and modify, doing things that the manufacturer didn't even anticipate when designed.

It's just I imagine many here are more technologically sophisticated than to be among those that constantly throw new things out for the newer, not when something can be hacked, cracked, reprogrammed, upgraded, reconfigured and reintegrated. Like my 2yo laptop, click of death. Did I toss it and get a new model? Nope, pulled it apart, dropped in an SSD drive, now it runs better then before and on Linux rather than bloated windows. At this point, I'll probably get use out of it for the next 5-10yrs.

So maybe other places this may hold more true, but I think the sort here, at least more than there, are probably a little different than the typical consumer you may find.