X86 Memes

Ah, the miracle of emulation. Valve somehow convinced x86 apps to play nice with ARM architecture, which is basically like getting cats and dogs to not only coexist but form a barbershop quartet. The Steam Machine announcement feels like that moment when your coworker says they refactored the entire codebase over the weekend and "it just works." Sure, buddy. Next you'll tell me PHP is secure and printers never jam.

The x86 instruction set has evolved from sensible mnemonics like mov and add to absurd alphabet soup like xtrsprfstcmd that supposedly does complex math while romancing your mother in a single clock cycle. Impressive efficiency, questionable naming conventions. It's like Intel engineers went from writing readable code to smashing their faces on keyboards while achieving quantum-level performance.

The great CPU architecture debate, summarized with minimal effort. On the left, x86-64 represented by a mathematical graph. On the right, ARM represented by... an actual human arm. And there in the corner, RISC-V illustrated with what appears to be lines of cocaine. The perfect technical comparison doesn't exi—