Brand-loyalty Memes

Console gamers have been riding the "it just works" train for decades, but Sony announcing the death of physical discs is apparently the final straw that breaks brand loyalty. Not the overpriced games, not the subscription fees, not the lack of backwards compatibility—nope, it's the inability to physically own a disc that suddenly makes PC gaming look attractive. The irony? PC gamers haven't used physical discs since like 2012. Welcome to Steam, Epic, and GOG, where your "ownership" is equally questionable but at least you get better graphics and can mod Thomas the Tank Engine into every game. The grass isn't greener here—it's just rendered at 144fps.

Oh honey, the eternal GPU wars just got personal. While PC gamers are out here treating NVIDIA like it's the only graphics card manufacturer on planet Earth, AMD and Intel are literally lying on the floor begging for attention like forgotten stepchildren. The brand loyalty is UNREAL—people will drop $1,600 on an RTX 4090 without blinking, but suggest an AMD Radeon and suddenly everyone's a "compatibility expert." Meanwhile, Intel Arc is just happy to be mentioned at all. The market dominance is so brutal that even when AMD releases competitive cards at better prices, gamers still swipe right on team green. Competition? What competition? NVIDIA's out here living rent-free in everyone's minds AND wallets.