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Can We Go Back To The "5090 Will Cost $5090" Being A Joke?
Hardware AI Gamedev
27 days ago 42.6M views 0 shares
Can We Go Back To The "5090 Will Cost $5090" Being A Joke?
Remember when we all laughed at the idea that NVIDIA's RTX 5090 would cost $5,090? Yeah, turns out the joke's on us. The card is sitting at $5,499 and $6,999 respectively, making our previous nightmare scenario look like a bargain bin sale. At this rate, the RTX 6090 will require a small business loan and a kidney donation. Silicon has never been this expensive since... well, since the last GPU launch. Your ML training pipeline can wait another generation—or three.

We Are Same Same, But Diiiiiiiiifferent....
Hardware AI
1 month ago 102.5M views 0 shares
We Are Same Same, But Diiiiiiiiifferent....
Scalpers have truly perfected the art of organ trafficking, but for GPUs. Both markets operate on the same beautiful principle: take something with an MSRP that's already painful, mark it up 100-200%, and prey on desperate people who need it to survive (or run Stable Diffusion). The GPU costs $4,599 but the MSRP is supposedly $2k? That's a $2,599 markup. Meanwhile, kidney donors get paid around $5k in illegal transplants when the actual procedure costs hundreds of thousands. Same energy, different organs. At least with the kidney you only need to sell one—with GPU prices these days, you might need to sell both kidneys AND a liver just to afford the latest RTX flagship. Fun fact: The black market for human organs is estimated at $1.7 billion annually. The GPU scalping market during the crypto boom? Probably gave it a run for its money.

Do You Remember When This Was Unacceptable?
Hardware Gamedev
1 month ago 58.1M views 0 shares
Do You Remember When This Was Unacceptable?
Nvidia really pulled the ultimate gaslighting move with the RTX 3080 launch. They hyped up this revolutionary GPU with raytracing capabilities that would "change the future of gaming" and promised it would be 40% faster than the 2080 Ti—all while making it sound like a steal of a deal. Then they casually dropped the "Founders Edition" price tag of $1,199 and everyone just... accepted it? The same community that would've rioted over a $700 GPU a few years earlier suddenly thought four-figure graphics cards were the new normal. The real kicker? They trained us so well that when scalpers pushed prices even higher during the shortage, we were actually grateful to pay MSRP. Stockholm syndrome, but make it silicon-based. Now we're out here defending $1,600 GPUs like "well actually, considering the CUDA cores and DLSS 3.0..." while our wallets weep in 1080p.

Aren't We All...
Hardware
2 months ago 25.7M views 0 shares
Aren't We All...
You know things are bad when you're literally decomposing faster than DDR5 prices are dropping. Remember when 16GB of RAM didn't cost more than your monthly coffee budget? Yeah, neither do I. Now we're all just sitting here with our 8GB setups, watching Chrome eat through it like a competitive eater at a buffet, praying to the silicon gods that maybe, just maybe, we'll see those pre-2020 prices again before we retire. Spoiler alert: we won't. The skeleton has better odds of resurrection.

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Life Footage Of Me Trying To Brainwash The Youth Into Being Willing To Spend Money On Video Games, One Tiktok Comment At A Time
Gamedev Programming
2 months ago 850.3K views 0 shares
Life Footage Of Me Trying To Brainwash The Youth Into Being Willing To Spend Money On Video Games, One Tiktok Comment At A Time
Indie game dev discovers the ancient art of "managing expectations while also needing to eat." Blue innocently asks about pricing, and Alice delivers a masterclass in the delicate dance of "please buy my game but also I need to afford groceries." The progression is *chef's kiss*: Customer hopes for cheap → Dev hopes for reasonable → Dev reveals the harsh reality that game development doesn't pay in exposure bucks. That final response with the money-hugging emoji is basically every indie dev's LinkedIn bio translated to TikTok. The title calling it "brainwashing" is hilariously self-aware. Like yeah, how dare this developer want to be compensated for months of work? The audacity of expecting money for a product. Truly diabolical stuff. Next thing you know, they'll want health insurance too.

Hello There.
Hardware Gamedev
3 months ago 36.8M views 1 shares
Hello There.
You know that sinking feeling when management promises "part prices will go down in one to two generations" and you're momentarily excited before reality slaps you in the face? Yeah, they're talking about CPU/GPU generations, not human generations. Meanwhile, you're sitting there clutching your 5-year-old GPU like it's a family heirloom, watching the new RTX 5090 launch at the price of a used car. The brutal irony here is that hardware generations move at breakneck speed—Intel's on their 14th gen, NVIDIA churns out new GPUs faster than we can afford them—but prices? Those bad boys only know one direction: up. Moore's Law gave us exponential performance gains, but apparently nobody wrote a law for exponential wallet pain. The Anakin/Padmé format captures that perfect moment of naive hope followed by crushing disappointment. It's the tech equivalent of "surely THIS generation will be affordable... right?" Spoiler alert: it won't be.

How The Tables Turn
StackOverflow AI Programming
3 months ago 23.9M views 0 shares
How The Tables Turn
So the AI companies got us all hooked on their coding assistants, made us forget what actual programming feels like, and then decided "hey, let's 10x the price now that everyone's dependent." Classic drug dealer business model, honestly. Stack Overflow watching thousands of engineers suddenly remember they exist after two years of radio silence is just *chef's kiss*. They're standing there like "Oh, NOW you need us? NOW you want to read documentation and ask questions like peasants? Where was this energy when you were copy-pasting AI slop without understanding it?" The irony is beautiful. We spent years complaining about Stack Overflow's toxic culture and downvote-happy moderators, fled to AI assistants the second they became available, and now we're crawling back because enterprise pricing hit different. Welcome back to manually googling error messages and getting marked as duplicate, folks. The circle of dev life continues.

I Updated The Meme Of The Last Year
Hardware Gamedev
4 months ago 14.1M views 0 shares
I Updated The Meme Of The Last Year
So the Nintendo Switch 2 went from $499.99 with a regular LCD screen to $779.99 with... still an LCD screen, just with "(OLED)" slapped next to it. Winnie the Pooh in a tuxedo has never looked more justified. Nothing says premium gaming experience like paying an extra $280 for the privilege of having the exact same display technology but with fancier marketing. The 256GB storage stayed the same, the LCD stayed the same, but somehow the price discovered its inner OLED aspirations. Classic tech industry move—when you can't innovate, just rebrand and charge more.

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Great Question Yes Looks Like You're Cooked
Cloud AWS Programming Devops Backend
5 months ago 722.2K views 1 shares
Great Question Yes Looks Like You're Cooked
You know that feeling when AWS sends you a 47-page email about "minor adjustments" to their pricing structure and you're just there nodding along like you understand what "egress data transfer costs in multi-region VPC peering scenarios" means? Yeah, we all just skim the bullet points, pretend we read it, and hope our credit card doesn't get declined next month. The real skill isn't understanding the pricing changes—it's maintaining that confident smile while having absolutely zero idea if your side project is about to cost you $5 or $5000. We're all just vibing until the bill hits, then we'll panic-optimize our Lambda functions at 2 AM. Pro tip: If you actually read those emails in detail, you're either a CTO, a masochist, or both.

Enshittiflation
Cloud Programming Devops AWS Gcp
5 months ago 631.1K views 0 shares
Enshittiflation
The perfect word to describe modern tech in 2024. Your cloud provider just raised prices by 40% while simultaneously removing features you actually used and adding three new AI integrations nobody asked for. Remember when software just... worked? When you bought a license and owned it? When APIs didn't deprecate every six months? When "updates" meant improvements instead of "we removed offline mode and now require an internet connection to open a text file"? The tech industry discovered they can charge you more for less and call it "optimization" or "streamlining the user experience." Your $200/month SaaS subscription now has a worse UI than the $50 version from three years ago, but hey, at least the loading spinner is smoother. It's the circle of tech life: disrupt the market with a cheap, good product → gain monopoly → jack up prices → cut costs → profit. Rinse and repeat until developers are paying $99/month for a code editor that used to be free.

Finally A SaaS That Does Nothing
Cloud Webdev Programming Frontend
5 months ago 474.1K views 0 shares
Finally A SaaS That Does Nothing
Someone finally built the SaaS product we've all been secretly wanting. DoNothing™ offers three tiers of absolutely nothing, with the Premium plan charging €4.99/month for "nothing, but with style" and bragging rights. The Ultimate tier at €19.99 gives you "full access to nothingness" and "non-contractual moral superiority." It's basically every startup pitch deck I've reviewed in the last five years, except they're being honest about it. The free tier promises "guaranteed empty interface" and "non-existent 24/7 support" which is honestly better than most actual SaaS companies deliver. At least you know what you're getting—or rather, what you're not getting. The "Voted most useless software of the year since 2024" badge is chef's kiss. Worth noting that paying for nothing but getting "increased personal pride" is basically how half the cloud services justify their enterprise pricing anyway.

Intel Is Doing It Again...
Hardware Gamedev
6 months ago 364.8K views 0 shares
Intel Is Doing It Again...
Intel really looked at their struggling CPU lineup and thought "you know what'll fix this? Making them 30% more expensive." Meanwhile gamers who've been patiently waiting for the new 250KP and 270KP processors are getting absolutely demolished by reality. Nothing says "market strategy" quite like pricing yourself out of relevance while your competition is eating your lunch. The boxing glove represents the swift knockout punch of disappointment when you realize you're about to pay premium prices for chips that are already behind the curve. Classic Intel move—when in doubt, just charge more.