I’ve been into PC and PC gaming since like forever. My father told me a story about me pissing into his amiga back in the day .. so I guess I started young?
Anyways… I’ve been building my own PC very early on, be it from mostly used parts. I always was a tinkerer and often abused the hardware to “improve” it. I even watercooled my system when there were no watercooling parts commercially available – eBay to the rescue. We used Eheim aquarium pumps, motorbike radiators and water blocks that some dude machined with a drill press. FUN!
I HAVE tried to get into console gaming at some point, bought an XBOX 360 Elite, Gears of War (2 I think, but can’t remember) and Call of Duty (I guess 5?) and played a total of three hours on it before selling it to a colleague at work a couple months later. Yeah it really wasn’t what I was after apparently.
Much to the detriment of my wife, my mindset hasn’t changed much. I’ve probably spent more on my PC than some people would on their car at this point… but it was worth every minute of it. Every iteration of my PC gets a new name, and after things like Arctic Blue, Shockwave, Archangel, probably 1-2 names I’ve forgot over the years we’ve now landed on Prometheus.
I own several Tablets and Laptops, but they are almost never used unless I need to configure something in my homelab that requires a console cable or manual ip configuration. Besides my work laptop of course, which is used daily – but since I don’t technically own that one, that doesn’t count.
Prometheus is used for everything else, be it gaming of course, coding or just some YouTube. While I do have a full streaming setup, I rarely use it. I do stream about once or twice a year when my clan attempts new raids in Destiny 2 and I want to share my PoV with other clan members that can’t attend, but that’s about it. Everything is built to my liking and I am really happy with how the system turned out and currently works.
