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 The 9600 GT is not an outdated piece of shit.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 Is it an outdated piece of shit?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 Just because the card is older than you, it doesn't make it an outdated piece of shit.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

It's 3 years old. That's not a really old, obsolete GPU. You're really talking out of your ass here, you know, I can run Skyrim decently (40fps or so) at high settings and turn everything up to ultra in Fallout: New Vegas without breaking a sweat. That and it's not even 5 generations old, unless you're an idiot that considers every new line of an nVidia card a generation. It's actually only one generation offset, it's a DX10/Shader 4 card, the current standard being DX11/Shader 5.

Actually, I was in a discussion about this very thing the other day. It was decided pretty unanimously that Detroit would probably have been one of the biggest cities in the pre-War US, both due to a lack of cultural shift away from manufacturing jobs and its point right on the border of annexed Canada. It'd be pretty awesome to have such an urban jungle style fallout setting.

Also, have you ever actually been to Detroit?

You kid, but the shaders mod rapes framerate. Even my 9600 GT can only run it at 10fps with decent settings.

You could have a system wherein if you're ever killed, you get downloaded into a new body, or something similar.

It'd be tricky, but I think a linux-like OS could be ported.

He released the specs early- there's already a C compiler available, among other languages.

Considering this is essentially a commodore 64, I give it about a minute.

Hell, even reddit loved the idea. I'm thinking this poster may be from 4chan or something.

Absolutely not needed. EU populations are already starting to decline, and the US population would but for immigration.

-Checks username-

Oh.

There is some hope. In countries with highish standards of living (US or better), birth rates go negative- that is, below death rates. The US's population is only growing due to immigration, and much of Europe has gone negative. If we can raise the global standard of living enough, projections show that we could see a plateau at 9 or 10 billion circa 2050-70, which should be sustainable for a little while, until population starts falling. Indeed, decline in growth rates has already started. By percentage, growth rates have fallen by 50% since the 1960's, and actual numerical annual population growth has decreased by 14 million a year since 1989.

Have you ever actually been to the bible belt? That attitude is a real thing down here.