The Circle Of Tech Life: 3D Is Dead, Long Live 3D

The eternal GPU pricing purgatory we're all trapped in. Every hardware cycle, that one friend swears prices will drop "soon" after the next release. Meanwhile, your wallet weeps as prices only climb higher while you're still running a 1060 from 2016 that sounds like a jet engine when you open Chrome. The tombstone for "GPU prices will settle soon" might as well be my desktop background at this point.

The eternal struggle of trying to get into gaming but the universe has other plans. First it's the GPU shortage that makes graphics cards cost more than a kidney on the black market. Finally snag one? Cool, now cloud gaming exists as an alternative! But wait—your ISP decided that buffering is a feature, not a bug. It's like a boss fight with three health bars, except you're fighting capitalism, infrastructure, and your own sanity. The tech industry really said "you can have nice things, but not all at once" and made it their business model. At least developers can relate—just when you fix one bug, two more spawn. Just when you master one framework, three new ones become "industry standard."

Ah, the classic "locally running fine-tuned model" joke that perfectly skewers both tech bros and Nvidia's marketing department in one fell swoop. This is riffing on how Nvidia has been aggressively pushing AI capabilities in everything from gaming to dating. The tweet satirizes the absurd endpoint of this trend – where even your romantic partners need to be running on local hardware to be "legitimate." As someone who's watched GPU prices skyrocket while marketing slides get increasingly unhinged, I feel this in my empty wallet. Next they'll be selling us RTX 5090s with "girlfriend-ready ray tracing" for the low price of your firstborn child.

Developers still clinging to their 1080 Ti graphics cards in 2025 while newer, similarly priced GPUs exist. That 7-year-old card sitting in your rig like royalty while you keep telling yourself "it still runs everything fine" despite struggling with modern games. The real flex isn't buying new hardware—it's squeezing eight years of performance from hardware you bought during Obama's presidency.

Forget fun-size Snickers, this programmer's handing out Logitech G502 mice for Halloween! The G502 is practically the unofficial mouse of programmers everywhere - that infinite scroll wheel has saved more carpal tunnels than ergonomic keyboards. Ten years from now these kids will be thanking this house when they're crushing leetcode interviews while their peers are still using trackpads like animals. The real trick-or-treat is deciding whether to use all 11 programmable buttons or just stick with the defaults because who has time to read manuals?

Nothing says "tech evolution" quite like Valve contradicting themselves after nearly a decade. In 2017, Gabe Newell confidently declared wireless VR a "solved problem" while showcasing their wired headset. Fast forward to 2025, and suddenly they're like "Fine, we'll just build the wireless adapter ourselves" with that signature Valve time™ energy. The irony is delicious. Eight years to go from "it's solved" to "we're solving it now" is peak Valve – the same company that can't count to 3 for Half-Life but can take their sweet time reinventing what was supposedly already fixed.