Real Struggle

The gaming industry's legal battles have reached new geometric heights! Nintendo apparently filed a patent claiming ownership of... *checks notes*... cube shapes. Yes, CUBE SHAPES. Because clearly, they invented 3D geometry in 1889 when they were making playing cards. Meanwhile, Valve (maker of Steam and the black cube-shaped Steam Deck) is getting sued for having the audacity to use the revolutionary concept of "six equal square faces." Next up: Sony patents spheres, Microsoft claims exclusive rights to rectangles, and EA announces you'll need to pay $9.99 to unlock the concept of edges. The patent lawyers must be absolutely thriving right now. "Your Honor, my client clearly invented the concept of three-dimensional objects with right angles back in 2001 with the GameCube!"

Spent $1200 on a new GPU thinking it would solve all your gaming woes? That's cute. The crushing reality of modern gaming is that no matter how beefy your hardware gets, devs will find new and exciting ways to make poorly optimized games that still require you to dig through config files like it's 1998. The circle of life in PC gaming: upgrade hardware → realize games still run like garbage → back to tweaking .ini files while questioning your life choices. Rinse and repeat every GPU generation.

Ah, the mythical Linux battery life! 81% battery with 55 hours remaining while in "Performance" mode? That's not a power management system, that's a fantasy novel . Windows users get excited about 3 hours of battery life while Linux is over here claiming your laptop can outlast the apocalypse. The best part? Someone has it in "High performance" mode, which on any other OS would drain your battery faster than a TikTok scrolling session. Linux is basically saying "I can make your 2012 laptop battery perform like it's powered by arc reactor technology from Iron Man." Sure, Jan. 🙄

That laptop has seen things. Dark, unspeakable things. The kind of security vulnerabilities that make sysadmins wake up in cold sweats at 3 AM. It's either running Windows XP in a nuclear facility, storing the only copy of production credentials, or it's that one machine that somehow still runs the company's legacy COBOL app from 1983 that nobody understands but everyone depends on. The skull and crossbones is basically saying "this machine is one npm install away from causing an international incident." Respect the warning, people.

OH. MY. GOD. The AUDACITY of these felines! 😱 In the cutthroat world of hardware development, there's an enemy more terrifying than any memory leak or buffer overflow – THE CAT WHO PEES ON GPUs! That precious $1,500 graphics card you waited 8 months to buy? One feline bathroom break away from TOTAL DESTRUCTION! The fact that the counter is at ZERO should send shivers down your spine. It's basically a ticking time bomb of ammonia-based devastation waiting to happen. Hardware engineers across the globe are frantically installing cat-proof cases while whispering prayers to the silicon gods. The struggle is REAL!

The ultimate PC builder's walk of shame: replacing a side panel only to break it again immediately. That RGB fan in the background is witnessing the crime scene in real-time! The "Not again!" screaming cat is basically the PC's soul leaving its body. The counter at zero is like those git commit messages that say "final fix v4_ACTUALLY_FINAL_this_time.js" right before you push another 17 commits.