Never understood the hate for that comment. Disclaimer I also don’t know the actual source context but a series of tubes is an apt description for the Internet IMHO. Especially TCP connections feel like tubes. UDP Connections more like those vacuum tube lines businesses used back in the day.

1080’ties really were legendary cards. Back then I only had a 1060ti as my prior card broke unexpectedly and that was all the money I could spare.

This reminds me of an old thread on a random forum. Just when Sims 2 was released they were speculating what Sims 3 would look like.

Someone suggested that the next game will surely be in the source engine!

While your point is more realistic than that I still don’t think valve could pull this off in reasonable time. Translation for games is extremely hard to do right. I think if at all there will be another generation of decks before we see something like this.