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If Only We Knew How Good We Had It In 2018. $1200 1080 Tis Feel Cheap Compared To $1800 5080 S
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3 days ago 127.1M views 0 shares
If Only We Knew How Good We Had It In 2018. $1200 1080 Tis Feel Cheap Compared To $1800 5080 S
Remember when you could buy a high-end GPU without taking out a second mortgage? Yeah, me neither at this point. The GTX 1080 Ti launched at $699 MSRP back in 2017. Fast forward to today and the RTX 5080 is dropping at $1800+. That's not inflation—that's straight-up highway robbery with RGB lighting. The kid asking Santa for "reasonably priced graphics cards" has about the same odds as getting an actual dragon. Between crypto mining booms, AI training demand, scalpers, and Nvidia realizing gamers will pay literally anything to run Cyberpunk at 144fps, GPU pricing has entered the fantasy realm. At least dragons are cool. A $1800 price tag just hurts. Pre-crypto prices indeed. Those were the days when your biggest worry was whether you had enough PCIe power connectors, not whether you needed to sell a kidney.

Is This A Good Price For Cookies
Javascript Programming Debugging Webdev Frontend
5 days ago 62.3M views 0 shares
Is This A Good Price For Cookies
When the pricing system returns NaN instead of an actual number, so now these cookies cost "Not a Number" pounds. Classic JavaScript moment right there. Someone probably tried to do math on undefined , divided by zero, or parsed a string that definitely wasn't a number. The best part? The label printed successfully and nobody caught it before it hit the shelf. Production bugs hitting different when they're literally on display in a grocery store. Somewhere, a developer is getting a Slack message with a photo attached and their stomach just dropped. Fun fact: NaN is technically a number type in JavaScript, but typeof NaN === "number" returns true. Because of course it does.

Bring Me 1 Person Who Actually Loves Adobe
AI Programming Frontend
13 days ago 246.4M views 0 shares
Bring Me 1 Person Who Actually Loves Adobe
Adobe's business strategy flowchart right here. They had two perfectly reasonable options: sell Photoshop or PS5 games. Instead, they chose the corporate villain route—jack up prices and enshittify everything. But wait, there's more! They invested trillions in AI, and now their angry customers are literally reverse engineering their own software using that same AI. It's like they speedran "How to Make Your Users Hate You 101" and got a world record. The irony is chef's kiss: pour billions into AI tech, only to have it weaponized against you by the very people you've been price-gouging for years. Nothing says "sustainable business model" quite like training your customers to replace you.

Saas Pocalypse Is Here
Cloud Webdev Devops Backend Frontend
15 days ago 41.9M views 0 shares
Saas Pocalypse Is Here
The harsh truth about "free tier" SaaS products: they're not free, you're just paying with your time instead of money. That vibecoded productivity app with the cute UI? Sure, it costs $0/month, but you'll spend 3 hours setting it up, another 2 migrating your data, and then realize it's missing that one critical feature locked behind the $29/month "Pro" plan. The SaaS apocalypse is real—we've gone from owning software to renting everything, and now every startup thinks they can charge you monthly for what used to be a one-time purchase. The free tier is just bait to get you hooked before they inevitably increase prices or sunset the product entirely. Your time spent learning their platform, integrating their API, and building workflows around it? That's the real subscription cost they don't advertise. Remember when software just... worked? Without needing an internet connection, a credit card on file, and agreeing to 47 pages of terms and conditions? Yeah, those were the days.

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Can We Go Back To The "5090 Will Cost $5090" Being A Joke?
Hardware AI Gamedev
1 month 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
2 months 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
2 months 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.

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
3 months ago 869.6K 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
4 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
4 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.

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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.