Wait, You Pay Full Price For Software?

The eternal battle between pragmatism and the programmer's ego. When someone says "just use an existing engine," what they're really saying is "please don't spend the next 18 months building a half-broken physics system when Unity exists." But here we are, drawing our own circle from scratch because clearly no one in history has ever implemented collision detection correctly. It's like deciding to forge your own kitchen knife when you just wanted to make a sandwich. "But MY knife will have a slightly different handle grip!" Cool story. Meanwhile your game idea is collecting dust, and you're debugging quaternion math at 3AM.

Remember when NVIDIA promised us RTX would revolutionize gaming? Fast forward to reality where we've gone from "RTX Hair" that just makes characters look like they haven't showered in weeks to "HairWorks" that completely overhauls physics but turns your $3000 GPU into a space heater. Meanwhile, the doge meme evolved from normal to buff while our framerates went from 60 to slideshow. Graphics cards marketing in a nutshell: "Sure, your game runs at 3 FPS now, but look at those gloriously realistic individual strands of greasy hair!"

Ah, the beautiful irony of modern gaming! Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 with its hyper-realistic medieval graphics only needs a modest GTX 1060 to run. Meanwhile, Borderlands 4 with its cartoony cell-shaded style demands an RTX 2070 minimum. It's like needing a supercomputer to run MS Paint while Photoshop runs on a calculator. Game engine optimization is clearly an arcane art that defies logic. The real medieval warfare isn't in the game—it's in your wallet fighting to afford unnecessary GPU upgrades for stylized graphics. Somewhere, a graphics programmer is cackling maniacally while writing the most inefficient shader code possible for those cartoon outlines.

First, you're happy with 240 FPS. Then suddenly, it's not enough. The refresh rate addiction is real, folks. Once you've tasted that buttery smooth gameplay, there's no going back to the stuttery peasantry of lower framerates. Your bank account weeps silently as you justify "just one more" hardware upgrade for those precious extra frames that nobody else can even see. But you can see them... you swear you can.

The GPU market in a nutshell: AMD abandons their still-in-production RX 6600 like it's last week's leftovers, while Nvidia's over here giving 12-year-old GTX 750 Ti cards the royal treatment with fresh drivers and game optimizations. It's like watching one parent forget their toddler at the grocery store while the other helps their 30-year-old son with his taxes. No wonder Nvidia's charging kidney prices—they're supporting cards older than some of their customers' children!

GASP! The absolute AUDACITY of motherboard manufacturers passing around the concept of "reasonably priced" like it's some ancient scroll of forbidden knowledge! 😱 They're literally hiding behind a rock like Patrick Star, hoping we won't notice they've jacked up prices to the stratosphere! Remember the good old days when building a PC didn't require selling a kidney on the black market? Those fish are CONSPIRING against our wallets while we're out here trying to upgrade our rigs without financial ruin! The betrayal is just TOO MUCH to bear!