Future Sure Looks Grim

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20 days ago 157,641 views 1 shares

Future Sure Looks Grim

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Picture this dystopian hellscape: it's 2030 and you're confessing to your friend that you DARE to run games locally on your own hardware like some kind of digital caveman. The absolute AUDACITY of owning your own GPU instead of renting processing power from our cloud overlords! Your friend looks at you like Obi-Wan discovering an ancient relic—because apparently in the future, the concept of "buying a graphics card once" will be as extinct as physical media and reasonably priced DLC. Nothing screams "innovation" quite like turning your RTX 5090 into a glorified paperweight while you pay $49.99/month to stream Minesweeper at 4K. The "Nvidia" being crossed out is *chef's kiss*—because why stop at one company monopolizing the GPU market when EVERY tech giant can get in on the subscription grift? Welcome to the future where you don't own anything and you're supposed to be happy about it!

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