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his is a year to sit and think about how much things cost. Many of us are feeling the sharp end of the cost of living crisis this winter, trying to balance the books so that we can simultaneously sustain our passion for virtual worlds and fend off frostbite. The status quo has been disrupted across society in the wake of the pandemic, and for those of us who count frames and get angry about ray tracing mods that actually only use screen