If you could reason with religious people, there would be no religious people.

From the article you linked to.

Babbage died in 1871, before these were discovered.

Babbage and Turing would like to have some words. Though I'll not deny Zuse was a big contributor.

Hahahahahaha! Oh, you were serious? Let me laugh even harder!

When the result of fracking in your backyard is making your drinking water flammable, they're damn right to not want it there.

I'm just saying that it's a bit early to call the 9600 an obsolete piece of shit when, despite what you have convinced yourself as I doubt you own one, it runs newer games fine on medium settings (though admittedly, gamebroyo isn't that intensive). Besides obviously low end cards, I think it's a stretch to call anything in the DX10 generation obsolete.

Elaborating a bit: I can indeed play skyrim on the 9600 GT, but I usually play connected to a fairly low resolution display (my 720p TV), I'm running TinyXP on a gaming partition, and I've got pretty decent specs otherwise (8GB DDR3 1600, Phenom II x4). Yes, it's not the greatest of the great, but it runs acceptably. Indeed, it outperforms the low end of the 500 series by a decent margin. The 9600 GT is not an outdated piece of shit.

Nitpick: the 400 and 500 series should be considered a single series; they both use the Fermi architecture. Likewise, the 200, 9000, and 8000 series should be considered similarly. Every new nVidia series does not a generation make.

Is the 9600 an older card? Yes. Is it an outdated piece of shit? Absolutely not. Anything that can play brand new games on medium+ settings is not by any means obsolete. Just because the card is older than you, it doesn't make it an outdated piece of shit.

Have you considered that your other components may not be up to spec?

Yes, by swapping to a source of power that will run out in the next century. Genius.

You're deluding yourself if you think this is in any way a post-nuclear world.

That's securing your nation's future in the post-oil world! /s