How People Used To Buy RAM

The unspoken truth of software engineering: you can spend years mastering complex algorithms and distributed systems, but your family will only ever be impressed when you fix their printer. Nothing says "I have a computer science degree" like standing next to a Canon inkjet for 30 seconds, turning it off and on again, and being hailed as a technological messiah by your relatives. The formal attire and aristocratic frog just perfectly captures that misplaced sense of accomplishment we feel when solving the most trivial of technical problems for our non-technical family members.

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.

Oh. My. GOD. The absolute DUALITY of PC building! 💅✨ On the left: All those boring technical components - CPU, GPU, motherboard, RAM, power supply, SSD - just sitting there like "please assemble me correctly or I'll literally burst into flames." 🙄 On the right: The FABULOUS RGB lighting and cable management that turns you from the confident Mr. Incredible into that creepy shadow demon lurking in your nightmares at 3AM when you realize you forgot to connect the CPU power cable and have to disassemble EVERYTHING. Honey, we all start thinking we're tech geniuses and end up questioning our will to live when that $2000 rig won't boot because of ONE. TINY. CONNECTOR. The transformation is CRIMINAL!

The classic "have you tried turning it off and on again" tech support trick dates back to the Jurassic period of computing! When a developer loses their cursor in 1983, they immediately resort to the oldest trick in the book—faking a hardware problem and suggesting a reboot. The best part? It actually works, and the comic perfectly captures that smug satisfaction when your BS technical explanation saves the day. Some programmer traditions never die, they just get faster processors.

Santa went full Thanos mode after some kid asked for 256GB of DDR5 RAM just to run Minecraft. Look, we all know that one person who thinks they need a NASA-grade supercomputer to play games with blocky graphics. But honestly? 256GB of DDR5 is overkill even for Chrome tabs. The kid probably just wanted to run 47 mods, 12 shader packs, and still have room to keep Discord open. Santa took one look at that wish list, calculated the cost-per-gigabyte, and decided violence was the answer. Can't blame him—DDR5 prices probably pushed his workshop's budget into the red faster than a production bug on Friday afternoon.

Ah, the classic game dev pipeline of diminishing returns! First, you spend weeks upgrading textures that players will barely notice. Then you crank up those polygon counts because clearly what your game needs is characters with more triangles than actual gameplay features. Next comes the obsessive addition of microscopic details that absolutely nobody will see unless they're inspecting your models with an electron microscope. And finally—the pièce de résistance—just blur everything with fancy lighting effects and call it "cinematic." DLSS/FG (Deep Learning Super Sampling/Frame Generation) is basically saying "let AI fix our performance problems" instead of optimizing the code that's running at 12 FPS. It's the digital equivalent of sweeping dust under a really expensive, ray-traced rug.