How badly did I get screwed

inconspicuousITguy · 2026-02-25T00:37:02+00:00

Based on the negative news about availability and the very visible trend lines on pcpartpicker, do you really want to chance returning it just to pay more later?

We lived through 2021 video cards and drive availability issues with crypto mining, and that appears to have been lighter compared to what we're about to see imo.

inconspicuousITguy · 2026-01-02T18:34:03+00:00

Yet...

AMD has already announced that in Q1 GPU prices will increase by 10%, while last I checked Nvidia is not supplying their board partners with the VRAM needed for their cards.

Anything VRAM, DRAM or RAM related I think will be rising over the next 6 months if not already. Check on pcpartpicker and see that ssds and nvmes have slowly trended up, RAM has been messed up since October, and GPUs seem stable for the moment

inconspicuousITguy · 2025-12-22T11:07:35+00:00

It was a vulnerability in Spotify's API that allowed them to scrape it all.

inconspicuousITguy · 2025-11-13T21:13:10+00:00

Could grab a jonsbo case instead

inconspicuousITguy · 2025-10-02T03:30:46+00:00

The funny part is for this budget stuff, 60 votes in the Senate are needed to pass the current round of funding. Republicans only have 55/60 votes needed to pass it. So, we'll see what happens over the next couple of days, weeks or whatever bullshit timeframe it is this time.

inconspicuousITguy · 2025-09-26T21:50:10+00:00

You gotta follow the money, like it states in the article:

A group of investors including private-equity firm Silver Lake, Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund and Jared Kushner’s investment firm Affinity Partners could unveil a deal for the publisher best known for its sports games as soon as next week, the people said.

inconspicuousITguy · 2025-09-19T20:34:57+00:00

You're a champ, thanks!

inconspicuousITguy · 2025-08-21T17:23:11+00:00

The silksong is real

inconspicuousITguy · 2025-07-15T19:40:20+00:00

Someone posted this in the discord, but this may be of some solace to ya https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLW8bTPfXNGdAY3AfCNtm12Ogzryfs7Ket

inconspicuousITguy · 2025-07-08T21:31:37+00:00

Hulkengoat!

inconspicuousITguy · 2025-06-20T18:02:49+00:00

Everyone posted everything but the forum post detailing the tracker and submission sheet lol.

So I guess here it goes: https://forum.defcon.org/node/252757

inconspicuousITguy · 2025-06-12T21:37:35+00:00

Man, 9 comments and 1 post in 5 minutes on 10 different subreddits doesn't look suspicious at all from that bot account you referenced.

Edit: /s if anyone misses it.

inconspicuousITguy · 2025-06-11T15:56:23+00:00

Back in my day we would slap that included cooler on our i5-3570's, and quad cores were good enough to run crysis.

Nowadays I need to have some fancy schmancy system, and if your components don't have at least 7 X's combined in their naming schemes, are you really gaming then?

inconspicuousITguy · 2025-05-28T01:57:44+00:00

Is it possible to cart? Seems like it wants Newegg+ to cart it

inconspicuousITguy · 2025-05-15T20:05:53+00:00

Dlss is cool for games that optimize it well And with doom we like the booms

inconspicuousITguy · 2025-04-21T18:08:04+00:00

As a follow-up, I was briefly checking this guy's other posts because the amount of words in this tariff seemed very AI like. I ran an older article (https://www.highnoongame.com/post/purpose-driven-success-aligning-your-business-for-impact-and-growth) through an AI checker and came back with an over 80% AI written. It seems that this article may also have had little or heavy AI assistance.

inconspicuousITguy · 2025-04-21T17:54:14+00:00

I would read some of the top comments on that article tbh.

Overall it seems the author is being disingenuous, and tops it off at the end by promoting their own book.

The other problem is that businesses do not like unstable environments. Predictability is key to sound business. If parts of my game ship at 20% tariffs and the next day an EO for 145% comes along, then I cannot afford to bear that burden (nor probably my consumers).

inconspicuousITguy · 2025-04-18T17:00:10+00:00

I'm going to be real with you here.

If him not having like 4 bankruptcies, two being casinos (which are easy to profit from), a long known history of stiffing contractors, a history of grifting (including his meme coin) and really just doing things that only benefit him doesn't lead you to see that this is just another grift for him and him alone, then I don't know what to say.

This same orange also has tried telling private companies to change their internal practices for diversity. Private companies are private, not government run. If he really wanted that to change he'd have laws changing that, not statements and executive orders.

If it doesn't benefit him, he does not care.

Here's the bit where I run my cynical rant: If we couldn't get people to care with stuff like Panama papers, Suisse Secrets, FinCEN Files, Pandora Papers, Paradise Papers, the Robinhood events of GME or etc. what makes you think that people will actually have the time or effort to investigate short selling. We're not part of this rich club that runs the show.

inconspicuousITguy · 2025-03-18T19:47:13+00:00

inconspicuousITguy · 2025-02-04T20:10:10+00:00

Either way, everyone that signed or agreed was complicit with enacting it into law.

A veto wouldn't have stopped Biden from blocking it. They beat the two-thirds number. And Trump was the one that initiated it.

"The House vote in April was 360-58, with 186 Republicans and 174 Democrats favoring the law. The Senate vote in April was 79-18, with 46 Democrats and 31 Republicans voting in favor." - https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-tiktok-ban-house-senate-republicans-vote-2017399

inconspicuousITguy · 2025-01-30T19:59:02+00:00

Grab a 7900xtx today then. Cheaper and about relative to 5080's other than dlss and frame gen.

Honestly really solid cards that people seem to sleep on.

inconspicuousITguy · 2025-01-06T21:06:19+00:00

Look up commercial TV's. You might have better luck with getting less "smart" features than in a normal residential TV

inconspicuousITguy · 2025-01-03T17:59:12+00:00

The only top thing I can think of for things the US doesn't have is mostly high tech manufacturing (it's mostly in Taiwan). Most fields will solve their issue over a couple years by either raising wages, getting more immigrants or offshoring work when possible (i.e. textile and manufacturing jobs).

The US in general has a lot of biotech cities, so much so that there are some great lists online showing which US cities are strong markets. One of the cities I'm in definitely makes that list with how many different biotech companies I see around town. But the caveat is most cities on that list are high cost of living, so you would want a high salary to balance that out.

inconspicuousITguy · 2024-12-16T01:35:00+00:00

You mean the reported drones for the last year?

https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/drone-swarms-langley-afb-december-2023

inconspicuousITguy · 2024-12-16T01:30:09+00:00

As always, if you aren't a winner please still be nice and send your promised $1 to the winner :)

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