The biggest problem is the harsh image thresholding done by the superfast receipt printer.
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(Image credit: smilly ) Playing PC games on inappropriate displays looks like it is becoming a trend in late 2025. Last month, we saw a PC enthusiast playing Battlefield 6 on the tiny circular screen of a CPU liquid cooler. Today, we spotted a YouTuber who had decided any type of conventional monitor or screen had to be snubbed. Instead, Smilly recorded themselves enjoying a bit of Minecraft using a printer as their sole viewport into the famously blocky game’s universe.
Watch On Above, you can see and hear that Smilly isn't having the happiest time in Minecraft , via his high contrast paper-spooled view of the game world.
The receipt printer provides surprisingly rapid updates, which is a welcome feature for any gaming "display." But it isn’t the ‘refresh rate’, which we'd hazard is around 0.5 frames per second, that seems to be frustrating the YouTuber.
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- https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/SPONSORED_LINK_URL
- https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/crazed-gamer-plays-minecraft-using-a-receipt-printer-as-a-display-crippling-frames-per-second-not-even-the-biggest-drawback#main
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