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Pilch thanked one person in particular for making his GTA V experience possible: the YouTube channel LowSpecGamer, which focuses on helping games run on old computing hardware.LowSpecGamer, a.k.a. Alex, runs the channel from an apartment in Spain. (He requested his last name be left out of this story.) Originally born in Venezuela, Alex discovered that living in a developing country and loving games proved a challenge; getting access to the latest releases or hardware at affordable prices was largely out of the question. When Alex went to college for engineering, his parents gave him a laptop, but he quickly found out it wasn't equipped for games.Undeterred, Alex dug around the internet for solutions to his problem. Surely, there had to be people who'd found clever ways to make games run better. But what he found wasn't useful.He said, "I was immensely frustrated by the existing and currently very strong narrative online of PC gamers being the 'master race.' That didn't really represent my experience.""I was immensely frustrated by the existing and currently very strong narrative online of PC gamers being the 'master race.' That didn't really represent my experience."—LowSpecGamer
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