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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.

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[–] miz@hexbear.net 28 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

this dumbass still thinks his alligator black leather jacket schtick makes him look cool. go fuck yourself shithead. Jensen Huang? more like Jensen Wanker

NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang has expressed strong support for Israel [sic], referring to the country as a "second home" for the company

get fucked, hope you die soon and it hurts the whole time

[–] CliffordBigRedDog@hexbear.net 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Thankfully theres AMD who instead of giving money to israel gives money to the saudis instead wholesome

[–] EveningCicada@hexbear.net 5 points 18 hours ago

I love the Free World

I read this in Ed Zitron's voice

[–] GrouchyGrouse@hexbear.net 34 points 1 day ago (3 children)

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.

[–] ReadFanon@hexbear.net 28 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Dessa@hexbear.net 12 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Capitalism is the most efficient system of distribution ever devised

[–] Beaver@hexbear.net 27 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

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.

[–] Johnny_Arson@hexbear.net 20 points 1 day ago (1 children)

We could be making video cards, a thing that people in the actual real world would enjoy having.

We could be making a lot of things people actually need but capital dictates this shit.

[–] Beaver@hexbear.net 9 points 1 day ago

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.

[–] GrouchyGrouse@hexbear.net 20 points 1 day ago

yea

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.

[–] FnordPrefect@hexbear.net 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

[–] HexReplyBot@hexbear.net 2 points 1 day ago

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[–] queermunist@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 day ago

I dunno

At least stamps are real.

[–] btbt@hexbear.net 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

No more Pokémon go-ing to the polls you-hear-about-video-games

[–] Flyberius@hexbear.net 21 points 1 day ago

Every time I read this it's like my mind has purposefully wiped the cringe from my memory to protect me from a brain injury. It hurts every time I read it.

[–] Dessa@hexbear.net 9 points 1 day ago

"End-vidia." kelly

[–] Meltyheartlove@hexbear.net 25 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I would only be buying a Chinese gpu next time which would be a long time from now

[–] ReadFanon@hexbear.net 17 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)
[–] SexUnderSocialism@hexbear.net 15 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Rocking my Chinese memory from CXMT, with my Chinese GPU from Moore Threads. It really is the Chinese century. xi-lib-tears

[–] ReadFanon@hexbear.net 9 points 1 day ago

I haven't had a decent PC in forever and I was hoping to get one this year, if I played my cards right. The market had other plans however (as it does for us all).

I'm basically just stuck riding out this tidal wave of bullshit hardware stockpiling and scalping until your comment can become my reality.

[–] jackmaoist@hexbear.net 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] Des@hexbear.net 7 points 1 day ago

hopefully in time for my next build so I can have my entire machine from case to CPU be Chinese and decorate it accordingly

[–] cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Two thoughts. One, AMD exists and they are probably loving this news. Two, Cyberpunk was an outlier: most games are not that demanding. At least the good games. If you take Cyberpunk out of the equation, gaming hasn't really barrelled forward in a while. If Cyberpunk were a trend setter and all new games since 2020 looked like Cyberpunk does, I could say yeah, you need to upgrade your GPU every year. (Note that I say this as a Mac user who does his gaming on Switch and Xbox. I'm not doing computer games, though I can run some. Including Cyberpunk, albeit not well. I've tried it. It sucks. I'll just play it on Xbox.) But no, gaming has stagnated in terms of what is demanded. Indie games have been awesome for a while. If Nvidia wants to sit this year out and push the GeForce 60-series back a year, fucking let 'em. The 50-series is good enough for anything out there, and it's not like developers were waiting for the 60-series to push their big dreams. The 40-series, 30-series, and in many cases 20-series are good enough for most games. (Oh yeah, I am a Mac user now but I did used to build PCs, though my last rig was built in 2014 and used an AMD GPU. And a fourth-gen Xeon. And it ran Cyberpunk better than my 2022 or 2023 Mac. But you don't buy a Mac for gaming any more than you judge a fish for its inability to climb a tree.)

[–] jackmaoist@hexbear.net 20 points 1 day ago (2 children)

It's about time that game devs discover optimization again. Most games should run just fine with a 9060XT and FSR4.

[–] cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 13 hours ago

I only wish we had a fraction of the optimisation we had in the 8- and 16-bit eras. With that kind of optimisation, imagine what kinds of games we could have given today's storage abilities.

[–] PorkrollPosadist@hexbear.net 12 points 1 day ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

I sincerely love reading academic papers on rendering techniques and trying to implement them and adapt them to my needs. All commercial studios know these days is import UE5 open world FPS template, asset flip, eat hot chip and lie.

[–] came_apart_at_Kmart@hexbear.net 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

im totally on board for my next GPU being AMD or whatever this Moore Threads / Chinese play is about. i was already committed to not buying any NVIDIA hardware again.

[–] Des@hexbear.net 10 points 1 day ago

i've never owned an NVIDIA card and i've been doing my own builds for almost 15 years now

AMD cards are fine but the drivers/software can be pretty borked and need workarounds but I've gotten used to it.

i honestly can't wait for the full suite of Chinese hardware to come out because AMD is just going to become overpriced garbage soon once it's all that's left

[–] OptimusSubprime@hexbear.net 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

If Nvidia wants to sit this year out and push the GeForce 60-series back a year, fucking let 'em. The 50-series is good enough for anything out there, and it's not like developers were waiting for the 60-series to push their big dreams. The 40-series, 30-series, and in many cases 20-series are good enough for most games.

Recent Gamers Nexus news headline (as of 4 Feb 2026): HW News - OpenAI x NVIDIA Deal Questioned, GPU Prices Suddenly Skyrocket, AMD Vibe Coding

internet-delenda-est Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck doomer

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[–] LENINSGHOSTFACEKILLA@hexbear.net 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Alan Wake 2 seems to be more demanding, imo, and also looks better and is a better game and a better story.

I've got a 4070super, and I knew there's no way i'm upgrading until at least a 6080. The 5000 series is just not a very big jump, i dont want the 4x frame gen, (2x is blurrier than i'd like. no way am i going higher), and the price is astronomical, even if you can get msrp.

[–] AF_R@hexbear.net 2 points 19 hours ago

4070 owners stay winning. Genuinely seems like my 4070Ti Super is going to do the job for a long long time. Absolutely breezes through anything I throw at it, exceeding 60fps at 2k ultrawide even when I crank up Cyberpunk. Other games barely challenge it.

That and CPU tech has hit such a wall for such a long time that my 8086k is still performing well lol

[–] microfiche@hexbear.net 11 points 1 day ago

Do you like my jacket?

[–] GoebbelsDeezNuts@hexbear.net 12 points 1 day ago

They don’t know i-cant

[–] doleo@lemmy.one 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Inspiring stuff, but isnt this also the group that accepted micro transactions and p2w as normal? An industry where layoffs are just an expected part of development cycle. Where acquisitions and takeovers mean an ever decreasing pool of (well funded) studios.

They think calling us racist, mysoginistic,removed apologists is going to change us?

I mean it would be great, if it did.

I'm not so convinced that the group really even exists, outside of the toxic, self-identifying subset. Let alone, has the determination to stand up to late stage capitalist tactics.

[–] Infamousblt@hexbear.net 15 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The post body is an old copypasta just fyi

[–] doleo@lemmy.one 5 points 1 day ago

Thanks, I suspected that, but I still bit the bait anyway

Ed Zitron mentioned in his podcast that apparently during the crypto boom Nvidia claimed that all of the GPUs being sold for crypto purposes were for the "gaming" market. It's not illegal, but a very bad accounting practice. They were slapped by the SEC for it. I imagine right now there's some other "creative accounting practices" going on right now and they are getting ahead of it before their shit gets rocked. I don't believe for a minute this is really what's going on.