I thought it was on purpose here (Gaming)

by Cody Miller , Music of the Spheres - Never Forgot, Tuesday, April 15, 2025, 08:10 (13 days ago) @ ZackDark

But to answer your question the the Destiny context: it was constantly confirming and downloading things with the server. Doesn't matter that your GPU has 554214 cores, you're still going to wait on a queue to even know what to render. Other non-calculation wait times may include loading heavy art files from your hard-drive and decompressing insanely compressed files before using them (technically qualifies as calculation, but you know, extra).

There's this thing called… I dunno, caching? How hard is it to cache your inventory and update only individual items as they change? I'm not a programmer yada yada but this is basic shit. Validate with the server in the background and don't hang up the UI.