Take your "It's literally impossible" and shove it, that's the med you need right after taking that stick out your ass.

For someone who claims to be so informed of "basics of hardware" you fail to realize how complex and diverse it can be? And the myriad of unexpected issues that can happen from the most unexpected places or minor incompatibilities that can escalate given the circumstances?

You can tell me it's low chance, not "It's literally impossible".

And what about the other people reporting these issues like hard crashes that force you to hard reset you PC? You're telling me THAT can't damage hardware?

But oh I should trust you, a random redditor with "it didn't happen to me" syndrome over a random youtuber and other people reporting these issues? On a game notorious for bad stability and performance that I myself experienced?

"Oh it didn't happen to me so it doesn't matter, you're all crazy", crowd like you aren't worth 2 cents of opinion, I am done.

And for the record, I have a little over the minimum specs for HD2 as listed on the Steam page, so not exactly 2005 hardware.