Things Change, Don't They

The evolution of GPU power requirements is getting ridiculous. Remember when a simple 6-pin connector was enough? Now NVIDIA's over here like "Your new graphics card requires *checks notes* breadboard jumper wires and direct access to your local power plant." Next gen they'll just skip the middleman and require you to build a small nuclear reactor in your basement. The RGB lighting alone will probably require its own dedicated circuit breaker.

Congrats on escaping the corporate prison! Now you're in a self-imposed solitary confinement with no weekends, no benefits, and a boss who never stops pushing deadlines (it's you). That dream of making the next Stardew Valley quickly transforms into debugging collision detection at 3AM while your Steam backlog grows and your social life withers. The irony of trading 40 hours of structured misery for 168 hours of chaotic passion is just *chef's kiss*. But hey, at least your commute is shorter and pants are optional.

The brutal reality of modern gaming licenses in one perfect comic! Steam says "You don't own your games" and gets a cute response, while Ubisoft says the exact same thing and suddenly HR is on speed dial. It's the digital equivalent of agreeing to Terms & Conditions without reading them until something breaks. Game ownership in 2023 is basically paying full price for permission to maybe play something until the authentication servers get unplugged. The finest print in software licensing agreements: "It's not yours, it's just your turn."

The eternal game engine wars continue! This dev has clearly switched allegiances from Unity to Godot, and isn't shy about declaring it. Can't blame them after Unity's pricing fiasco last year that sent devs running for the exits. Godot swooped in as the free, open-source alternative and suddenly everyone's new best friend. Nothing says "I've evolved as a developer" quite like dramatically announcing your game engine breakup on social media. The relationship status is definitely "it's complicated" with Unity these days.

The left side shows all the fancy modern game development tools - Unreal Engine, Unity, powerful programming languages, and sophisticated 3D modeling software. Meanwhile, on the right side, there's just "6502 Assembly" - the programming language from the 1970s used in ancient systems like the Atari and Commodore 64. It's like comparing Olympic shooters - the one on the left has access to every cutting-edge tool in game development, while the one on the right is basically coding on a calculator with a rusty nail. And yet somehow that Assembly programmer still ships games that people actually finish playing instead of waiting for 50GB day-one patches.

1989: "Imagine the technological marvels we'll create with computers in 30 years!" 2020: "So I've simulated 1,000 T-Rexes fighting 80,000 chickens. For science." Ah yes, the pinnacle of computing power - dinosaur-poultry warfare. Somewhere in a server farm, a CPU is thinking, "I was designed to cure cancer, but here we are."