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The Only Justifiable Gaming Tax
Hardware Networking Gamedev
28 days ago 147.3K views 0 shares
The Only Justifiable Gaming Tax
The marketing department's favorite word strikes again! Slap "GAMING" on a motherboard, router, or case and suddenly it costs 50% more for some RGB lights and aggressive angles. But when it comes to monitors? That 1ms response time and 144Hz refresh rate actually delivers something useful beyond the aesthetic. It's the only "GAMING" product where the premium might actually be worth it... unless you enjoy paying extra for a router with more antennas than your neighbor.

The Evolution Of NVIDIA's Customer Service
Hardware Gamedev Programming
1 month ago 158.5K views 0 shares
The Evolution Of NVIDIA's Customer Service
Remember when NVIDIA politely asked you to upgrade your graphics card? Those were the days. Now they sit on their silicon throne, looking down at us mere mortals with contempt. "Buy our $2000 GPU or continue living in your pathetic low-polygon world, peasant." The transformation from humble tech company to aristocratic overlord is complete. And we just keep throwing money at them like the desperate frame-rate addicts we are.

The Great Gaming Hardware Tragedy
Hardware Gamedev Unity
1 month ago 171.2K views 0 shares
The Great Gaming Hardware Tragedy
The eternal hardware arms race strikes again! Console gamers (depicted as happy little Squirtles) are devastated when a game is next-gen only, meaning they need to shell out $500 for a new console. Meanwhile, PC gamers are practically having a Victorian death scene when a new game requires RTX GPUs - because that's not just $500, that's potentially $1500+ for a graphics card that's perpetually "out of stock" or "slightly cheaper than a kidney on the black market." The irony? Both groups will still find a way to buy the hardware while complaining about ramen dinners for the next six months.

Extinction By RTX: The Graphics Card Fossil Record
Hardware
1 month ago 186.7K views 0 shares
Extinction By RTX: The Graphics Card Fossil Record
Your GTX card that ran Cyberpunk just fine suddenly becoming a prehistoric relic the moment RTX 5090 drops. The tech industry's planned obsolescence at its finest—where your perfectly functional hardware gets dinosaur-shamed by some kid with daddy's credit card and rainbow RGB lighting. "Oh, you're still using a GTX? That's cute. My new card can render individual pores on a character's nose at 500fps while making breakfast."

The AAA Consumer Experience
Gamedev Hardware Unity Programming
2 months ago 109.2K views 0 shares
The AAA Consumer Experience
Ah, the modern gaming "enthusiast" in their natural habitat. This specimen has evolved to simultaneously complain about lack of innovation while refusing to play anything that doesn't match their exact preferences. The "$6000 battle pass purchasing machine" hits way too close to home. Dropping a small fortune on hardware just to play the same recycled games and then complaining about it? Chef's kiss of irony. My favorite part is how "thinking" and "originality" are listed under "SLOP" while "giving companies money" is "BASED." Nothing says discerning consumer like hating creativity while worshipping corporate wallets. The gaming industry's perfect customer doesn't exi—oh wait, there they are, threatening self-harm if exposed to a new experience. Meanwhile, their unbroken 4-year subscription to someone playing games for them continues...

Mechanical Keyboards (affiliate)

Ducky One 3 Daybreak 80% Mechanical Keyboard: QUACK Mechanics Dampening, Hot-Swappable Cherry MX Black Switches, High-Density PBT Doubleshot Keycaps, RGB, US, Daybreak
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Ducky One 3 TKL Pure White Hotswap RGB Mechanical Keyboard (Cherry MX Brown)
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Ducky One 3 Mini Aura 60% Mechanical Keyboard: Quack Mechanics Dampening, Hot-Swappable Cherry MX Red Switches, High-Density PBT Tripleshot Keycaps, RGB, US, White
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We Looped Right Back
Hardware
2 months ago 88.7K views 0 shares
We Looped Right Back
Guy wakes up from a decade-long coma excited about his "powerful" 8GB graphics card, completely unaware that GPU prices have gone full circle. In 2013, an 8GB card was high-end. Then came the crypto mining apocalypse, scalpers, and chip shortages that made buying any GPU require a second mortgage. Now he's about to discover his ancient dream card costs more than it did when he went under. The circle of GPU life continues.

The Minister For Performance Has Spoken
Programming Hardware Debugging
2 months ago 93.6K views 0 shares
The Minister For Performance Has Spoken
Ah yes, the government official who clearly graduated from the "Stack Overflow School of Technical Facts." The classic "30 FPS is all you need" myth being delivered with such bureaucratic confidence is peak programmer pain. Meanwhile, PC gamers with their 144Hz monitors are having physical reactions to this statement. It's like when your product manager declares "the bug is now a feature" with the same authoritative hand gestures. The real performance minister is the one who optimizes your garbage collection, not the one who can't tell the difference between slideshow and smooth animation.

The Great GPU Hypocrisy Highway
Hardware Gamedev
2 months ago 159.3K views 0 shares
The Great GPU Hypocrisy Highway
The great GPU hypocrisy highway! AMD started with noble intentions of being the anti-NVIDIA hero we needed, only to swerve right and basically clone NVIDIA's 5060 card. It's the corporate equivalent of saying "I'll never become my parents" and then finding yourself yelling at kids to get off your lawn. The 5060 reference is to NVIDIA's RTX 5060 architecture - AMD basically took the same approach after promising to be different. Ten years in this industry and I've seen it all: companies start as rebels, end up as copycats. The circle of tech life continues...

Outdated GPU Purgatory: The Window Licker's Lament
Hardware Gamedev
3 months ago 114.9K views 0 shares
Outdated GPU Purgatory: The Window Licker's Lament
DARLING, it's the TRAGEDY of our TIMES! There you are, clutching your ancient GTX 1080 Ti like it's the last slice of pizza at a hackathon, peering through the blinds at the ray-tracing elite playing DOOM with their fancy-schmancy GPUs! The AUDACITY of game developers requiring hardware from this DECADE! Meanwhile, you're over there convincing yourself that Minecraft's blocky graphics are "an artistic choice" and that frame rates above 30 are "just showing off." The digital equivalent of watching the cool kids' party from outside while pretending you didn't want to go anyway! But honey, keep huffing that copium - those 2012 indie games aren't going to play themselves! 💅

Hope You Bought Hearing Protection For Your GPU
Hardware Gamedev
3 months ago 114.9K views 0 shares
Hope You Bought Hearing Protection For Your GPU
Ah, the sweet sound of innovation! ASUS engineers meticulously selecting the loudest possible coil whine for their GPUs, as if they're crafting a symphony of annoyance for gamers everywhere. Nothing says "high-performance computing" quite like the banshee screech of electrical components at 3 AM while you're trying to stealth through a game. It's their signature feature - why have silent computing when you can have your own personal electronic cicada? Clearly, they test these in soundproof labs while wearing industrial-grade ear protection.

Programming Books (affiliate)

Clean Code in Python: Refactor your legacy code base
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Expectation Vs. Reality: The GPU Evolution
Hardware Gamedev Windows
3 months ago 135.7K views 0 shares
Expectation Vs. Reality: The GPU Evolution
Remember when you could buy a graphics card without taking out a second mortgage? The "expectation" shows a humble GT440 from 9 years ago - probably cost you a reasonable $100 and could run Minecraft without setting your desk on fire. Fast forward to "reality" and we've got a monstrous GTX 1080Ti that costs more than some used cars and requires its own nuclear power plant. The best part? Both cards are equally impossible to find in stock. The crypto miners got the new ones, and your weird cousin who "builds gaming PCs" hoarded all the old ones.

My Take On Razer
Hardware Programming
3 months ago 129.0K views 0 shares
My Take On Razer
The RGB gaming peripheral struggle is real. After kicking out all the flashy rainbow keyboards, chairs, and monitors, Mr. Krabs keeps just the plain black mouse. Because when your setup looks like a unicorn threw up on it, sometimes all you want is that one piece of hardware that doesn't blind you at 2AM while you're debugging production code. The mouse – the only adult in the room of gaming peripherals.