The GPU Duopoly Delusion

Someone took the term "liquid cooling" way too literally and built a steampunk plumber's nightmare inside their PC. Those copper pipes aren't just for show—they're actually routing coolant through the system like some Victorian-era engineer got drunk and decided to fix their overheating problem. The craftsmanship is undeniable, but imagine explaining to your IT department why your computer smells like a leaky radiator. This is what happens when you tell a hardware enthusiast "just use a fan" and they take it as a personal challenge.

OMG the AUDACITY of game engines charging $99.99 for the privilege of turning your character into a mechanical octopus, only to have it run at a PATHETIC 24 FPS! 😱 The journey from "look at my cool tentacle arms" to "WHY IS EVERYTHING ON FIRE AND LAGGING" is the quintessential game dev experience. First they seduce you with those shiny Unreal powers, then BAM! Your graphics card is screaming for mercy while frantically suggesting driver updates like that's going to save your dumpster fire of a project. The modern gaming equivalent of "it worked on my machine" - except your machine is now melting through your desk. Truly the circle of game dev life!

The duality of developer ethics! While parents and schools drill "plagiarism bad" into our brains, the reality of coding is... slightly different . That NES DPCM bugfix from Super Mario Bros? Just "inspiration" for your game! The stick figure duality is perfect - honest thief vs. defensive "borrower." Nintendo's legal team is typing furiously somewhere while retro game devs nod knowingly. It's not stealing if you call it "referencing legacy implementation patterns." 😏

The classic Nintendo GameCube died in 2006, but its "reincarnation" in 2026 is just... a literal black cube. Minimalism gone too far? This is what happens when product designers take "return to your roots" too literally. Twenty years of innovation and we've circled back to "box that plays games" but without any of the personality. Next they'll remove the controller and call it "intuitive gesture control" while charging you double.

Looks like someone's trying to stump ChatGPT with real-world physical tasks. Asking an AI to finish constructing a building is like asking me to fix production bugs without coffee – theoretically possible but practically insane. The construction worker's smug grin says it all – some jobs still require actual hands and a hard hat, not just clever algorithms. No matter how many tokens you feed the model, it's not going to pick up a hammer anytime soon. Next they'll be asking it to fix the office coffee machine or handle those awkward team-building exercises. Some nightmares even AI can't solve.

Ah yes, the classic hardware hoarding drawer that every IT person has. You know, the one where old power supplies go to retire alongside cables from 2003 that you're "definitely going to need someday." The pun here is chef's kiss – we're literally looking at a drawer with a computer mouse (or mice, if you're fancy), but the title plays innocent like it's some unusual occurrence. Meanwhile, we all know this drawer also contains: 47 USB cables of unknown origin, three dead hard drives you can't throw away because "what if there's data on them," and at least one IDE cable because apparently you're running a museum. The power supply sitting there like it owns the place is peak IT energy – broken? Maybe. Will you throw it away? Absolutely not.