Efficiency

The circuit diagram joke that separates the real engineers from the rest of us. That's a buffer gate symbol between "You would" and "it" - literally creating "You wouldn't get it" because the buffer inverts the signal. The kind of joke that makes electrical engineers chuckle quietly while the rest of the dev team wonders why they're always so weird at lunch.

Spending $2000 on a high-end GPU but refusing to upgrade that ancient 1080p monitor is the tech equivalent of putting premium gas in a '98 Honda Civic. Sure, you're pushing 144fps in Cyberpunk, but it's like watching an IMAX movie through a keyhole. The sweet irony of demanding 1440p content when your display can't even show the extra pixels – just developer logic at its finest. Your GPU is basically sitting there, underutilized and judging your life choices.

Computer Science: where nothing else has made the code work, so you might as well try licking it. Honestly, this tracks. After exhausting Stack Overflow, rewriting the entire function, sacrificing a rubber duck, and questioning your career choices, the scientific method becomes "whatever, let's just see what happens." Computer Engineering gets the "tingle of electricity on your tongue" test, which is disturbingly accurate for hardware debugging. The rest of the sciences have actual safety protocols, but CS? Just try random stuff until the compiler stops screaming at you. It's not debugging, it's percussive maintenance for your sanity. The real kicker is that this method works more often than it should. Changed a variable name? Fixed. Deleted a comment? Suddenly compiles. Added a random semicolon? Production ready. Science.

The true path to gaming nirvana isn't through framerates—it's through proving strangers wrong on the internet. First you've got your peasant-tier 30 FPS gaming experience. Then the respectable 60 FPS where your brain starts lighting up. At 144 FPS, you're practically transcending reality itself. But the real galaxy brain move? Dropping $10K on a gaming rig that could render the universe in real-time, then never actually playing anything because you're too busy writing 12-paragraph comments about why AMD is superior to Intel on r/pcmasterrace. Peak enlightenment is when your GPU collects dust while you collect internet arguments.

Listen, I'm not saying I'd get in immediately, but I'd definitely walk closer to check if they're legit. DDR5 prices are still ridiculous and my Chrome tabs are eating through my current 16GB like a college student through ramen. The sketchy van aesthetic just adds authenticity—real hardware dealers don't need fancy marketing. They know you'll come crawling when your system starts swapping to disk during a Zoom call.

The moment you get that computer science degree, everyone suddenly thinks you're the designated IT support person for the entire extended family. Nothing says "I've made it as an engineer" quite like being handed a printer that hasn't worked since Windows XP and being told "you can fix this, right?" The girlfriend bringing home a friend's printer is the final boss of unpaid tech support. Six years of algorithms and data structures for this glorious moment.