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		dlcarrier 3 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Look at how unhinged GPU box art was in the 2000s ... It's nothing that complicated. Nvidia started micromanaging their distributors, and removed all the fun, and AMD just copies what they do.

gdulli 3 months ago [–]

Or it was just a fad when the scene was novel and it ran its course as fads and design elements do. This explanation doesn't require there to be an enemy to demonize but sometimes there just isn't, as much as we might want there to be.

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