Tech budget Memes

The eternal struggle of PC building in 2023. You're all excited about that shiny new PC upgrade, maybe even drooling over those fancy PCMRs (PC Master Race setups), until DDR5 prices show up and grab you by the wallet. It's like going to a restaurant, checking out the menu, and then flipping it over to see they charge $15 for a side of fries. Suddenly your enthusiasm gets body-slammed by economic reality. The dream of 128GB DDR5 RAM running at light speed? That'll be one kidney, please. No wonder we're all still rocking DDR4 while pretending we're "waiting for the technology to mature."

That $4,000 gaming laptop with dual screens and RGB everything sitting next to a car that's one pothole away from total collapse is the most accurate representation of developer priorities I've ever seen. Why spend money on transportation when you need those extra CPU cores to compile your side project that you'll abandon in two weeks? The car gets you to work, but the laptop is your work—and your Netflix machine, and your "I'm totally going to learn Rust this weekend" fantasy enabler.

The existential crisis of PC building circa 2000 - when your entire upgrade budget forced you to choose between more RAM or a faster hard drive. That sweaty panic attack moment when you realize $100 won't cover both options, and whichever one you pick, your Quake III Arena experience is still going to be subpar. The true Y2K problem wasn't computers failing, it was our wallets failing our computers.