They targeted gamers.
Gamers.
We're a group of people who will sit for hours, days, even weeks on end performing some of the hardest, most mentally demanding tasks. Over, and over, and over all for nothing more than a little digital token saying we did.
We'll punish our selfs doing things others would consider torture, because we think it's fun.
We'll spend most if not all of our free time min maxing the stats of a fictional character all to draw out a single extra point of damage per second.
Many of us have made careers out of doing just these things: slogging through the grind, all day, the same quests over and over, hundreds of times to the point where we know evety little detail such that some have attained such gamer nirvana that they can literally play these games blindfolded.
Do these people have any idea how many controllers have been smashed, systems over heated, disks and carts destroyed 8n frustration? All to latter be referred to as bragging rights?
These people honestly think this is a battle they can win? They take our media? We're already building a new one without them. They take our devs? Gamers aren't shy about throwing their money else where, or even making the games our selves. They think calling us racist, mysoginistic,removed apologists is going to change us? We've been called worse things by prepubescent 10 year olds with a shitty head set. They picked a fight against a group that's already grown desensitized to their strategies and methods. Who enjoy the battle of attrition they've threatened us with. Who take it as a challange when they tell us we no longer matter. Our obsession with proving we can after being told we can't is so deeply ingrained from years of dealing with big brothers/sisters and friends laughing at how pathetic we used to be that proving you people wrong has become a very real need; a honed reflex.
Gamers are competative, hard core, by nature. We love a challange. The worst thing you did in all of this was to challange us. You're not special, you're not original, you're not the first; this is just another boss fight.
Is it really a “shortage” if it’s just “a bunch of pie-in-the-sky hucksters pinky promise to buy every RAM chip made until 2091 and by the way lol the bubble is already showing cracks Trump might actually fuck up the global economy and these guys are wasting resources on a chat bot that kills teenagers”
I’m asking because I’ve finally decided to cash out my stamp collection and get into the stock market.
They've gone on record stating that they have a ton of racks that aren't even hot because they cannot get enough electricity supply to power all of them.
They have bought up the supply and they have piles of cards and ram sitting idle collecting dust because they can't even power them on while people that could make good use of them can't because now they're all so unaffordable because they're literally hoarding PC hardware like a dragon in a fantasy setting hoards a pile of gold. (Draw your own conclusions about what solutions fantasy stories have for dealing with dragons sitting on hoards of treasure.)
Tell me that doesn't sound a whole lot like collusion to feed this ridiculous bubble.
Capitalism is the most efficient system of distribution ever devised
Even if all of the AI companies go bankrupt tomorrow and all of these memory order dry up, it won't alleviate the problem, because fabs have now spent months rejigging everything to create AI hardware. So the shortages are going to be real no matter what.
That's the ultimate folly of the AI bubble: that it represents an actual real world waste of capital investment and human effort. We could be making video cards, a thing that people in the actual real world would enjoy having. But instead, all that effort is going onto rainforest burning CSAM generators.
We could be making a lot of things people actually need but capital dictates this shit.
Video cards are inarguably a frivolous thing, especially in a world with so much want for the basics. But I think the frivolity of them really just drives the point home of how useless all this AI spending is. You could substitute in something like cigarettes, or making a big bonfire out of a pile of money, and it would still be a better use of resources than this AI bullshit.
You know what I think about? How Capitalism created the just-in-time supply model to trim all the fat and then they just pump the fat into these kinds of bubbles instead of making the system better.
Damn, the villain from Ferngully really is a little too accurate rendering of Grok. His big musical number is Toxic Love for crying out loud
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
I dunno
At least stamps are real.