Libraries should get enough funding to be equipped with gaming computers and I'm not fucking kidding.
Expanding on this, that post i reblogged just now made me think about how piracy is like a library for video games. The library buys and stocks books (person buys and cracks the game), patrons come in and borrow them (torrents the games), doesn't matter why they do it (broke, don't like spending money on books, want to test the waters of a series before committing to spending, etc) no one says libraries are killing book sales, they're just making it so people who wouldn't otherwise have books get to read. Much like torrenting gets people to play games they otherwise wouldn't. Maybe they can't afford every game they buy, maybe they end up not liking it, maybe they do and end up buying it to support the dev. Either way it's just more people playing games.
And that ended with me thinking it would be sick to have communal gaming computers. It might be hard with some games, but with account-dependent save files or arcade games it could be possible. Not everyone can afford to buy beefy PCs, much like not everyone can afford to buy every book they want to read.
