Dystopian future Memes

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Future Sure Looks Grim
Hardware Gamedev Cloud
16 days ago 153.4K views 1 shares
Future Sure Looks Grim
Picture this dystopian hellscape: it's 2030 and you're confessing to your friend that you DARE to run games locally on your own hardware like some kind of digital caveman. The absolute AUDACITY of owning your own GPU instead of renting processing power from our cloud overlords! Your friend looks at you like Obi-Wan discovering an ancient relic—because apparently in the future, the concept of "buying a graphics card once" will be as extinct as physical media and reasonably priced DLC. Nothing screams "innovation" quite like turning your RTX 5090 into a glorified paperweight while you pay $49.99/month to stream Minesweeper at 4K. The "Nvidia" being crossed out is *chef's kiss*—because why stop at one company monopolizing the GPU market when EVERY tech giant can get in on the subscription grift? Welcome to the future where you don't own anything and you're supposed to be happy about it!

This Is Not Going To End Well
AI Security Hardware Gamedev Cloud
16 days ago 159.7K views 0 shares
This Is Not Going To End Well
So we've reached the dystopian future where owning your own hardware is a crime and the AI overlords enforce subscription models for everything. The meme hits different because it's basically where we're already headed—every game company salivating over "games as a service" while you're just trying to play something offline without internet connectivity checks every 5 minutes. The "You're sheltering Nvidia Gforce RTX 5090 32GB aren't you?" line is *chef's kiss* because in this hellscape, having actual gaming hardware becomes an act of rebellion. Like hiding Anne Frank but it's your GPU. They've turned PC gaming into a thought crime where local storage and offline play are contraband. Remember when you could just... buy a game and own it? Yeah, your kids won't. They'll be paying $29.99/month for the privilege of streaming games at 720p with 200ms latency while corporations monitor their every keystroke. Fun times ahead.

Are We In A Sim
Cloud AI Gamedev Programming Linux
1 month ago 238.4K views 1 shares
Are We In A Sim
So we've got tech bros uploading their consciousness to the cloud for digital immortality, only to end up as NPCs in someone's Sims 4 save file. The .tar.gz format is chef's kiss here—because of course your eternal soul would be compressed using gzip. Nothing says "preserving human consciousness" quite like a tarball that'll probably get corrupted during extraction. The year 2050 timeline feels generous considering how fast Silicon Valley moves. By then, some teen will be torrenting these consciousness archives like they're season packs of a TV show, casually modding billionaire minds into digital servants who autonomously cook mac and cheese and get stuck in swimming pools without ladders. The ultimate revenge for all those "move fast and break things" mantras. Fun fact: A .tar.gz file is actually a two-step compression process—first tar (tape archive) bundles files together, then gzip compresses them. So your consciousness would literally be archived like it's going on backup tape storage from the 1980s. Peak irony for the cloud computing crowd.

The Great Tech Replacement
AI Programming
8 months ago 232.3K views 0 shares
The Great Tech Replacement
From debugging complex algorithms to flipping burgers at McCode's. The great tech replacement didn't quite pan out as expected, did it? After years of training AI to "automate all the things," it finally mastered the art of stealing your job while leaving you with an apron and a drive-thru window. The irony is delicious—much like the fries you're now serving to the engineers who built your digital replacement. At least you've still got job security... until they build a robot that can wave goodbye better than you can.