Tim Sweeney: preference

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…Okay, great. So I started out being pretty lazy. I had a bunch of, I bought used computers because you would often get them at half the price of a new one. They’d be good enough. So I had this old 486 I was developing on, I guess it was a 15-inch monitor at the time. It was a poor workstation setup but it was very economical. So as we started on Unreal, I realized that I had to write a ton of code. I had to write at absolute maximum productivity, so I had to rearrange my entire life around delivering maximum output. And so at that point I realized actually spending money on getting good equipment was a good investment. And we’re not talking about millions of dollars here or billions if you’re building a GPU farm, we’re just talking about buying some basic hardware. And so I bought the biggest CRT you could buy at the time, because this was a CRT. It was 24 inches, it weighed like a 100 pounds. I had back pain for a week after I installed it. But it got me 1920 by 1200. Wow. Nice.…

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