Literally everything was fine in 2010. You could build a mid range desktop for $1000 without even scrounging and all was well. We really had it good.Then the China bitcoin miners showed up and bought all the GPUs and pushed up the prices. Then the AI bubble happened and they demanded even more and turned GPUs into a strategic asset and launched trade wars to corner the GPU market.They just come and fucked with us for no reason we were minding our own business. Now a midrange desktop costs $5000 and they're locking us out of our own hobby. We were here first. We kept NVidia and AMD alive and prosperous for 20 years. And this is how they repay us with a stab in the back.We minded our own business and never asked for this fight. But it was brought to us and it's time that gamers rise upfuck t
And what do you think we could do? Write an angry letter to china?
>>724214239Drag cryptobros out into the streets and murder them.
>>724214239We could throw clogs at machines
>500 million mentally handicapped adult children joined forces today to take over the world so they can keep playing with their toys.
>>724213810you always can vote with your wallet. Majority of the people would still buy new pcs and components, and your "protest" would go nowhere, but at least (you)'d know that (you)'ve tried.
why are GPUs so good at bitcoin mining or powering machine learning anyway, when neither of which have to do with graphics?I would intuitively think CPUs would be for that
>>724214452Graphics is must math really. And GPUs are great at math, basically.
>>724213810Gamers around 2010 were having a melty weekly about the death of the industry, EA, console wars, the prices, gamergate, their tendies not microwaved enough, microtransactions, p2win, celeb drama, girl gamers ruining everythingJust change hobbies
>>724214239bomb the three gorges damnuke all chinese cities (their nukes are made out of water)TCDafter that, prices will normalize again.
first they fucked us over on speculative e-money hype. then over a chatbot that can write at a highschool levelall these people think they're going to be trillionaires at the expense of gamers
>>724214436you're retarded if you think you can "vote with your wallet" aggainst trillions of speculative dollars
>>724213810I know it's already a thing, but continue normalizing playing older and/or less graphic intense games. Make it part of the discussion and a trend among gamers (young and old) that fun and accessibility for low-mid range PCs is better than graphic intense movie cinematic slop. Celebrate good optimization in reviews and shit on a game that ignores it. An example would be the reception of MH Wilds. Make it known to devs that most modern games aren't really worth buying or shelling thousands for a GPU or PC.
>>724213810When we're hungry and cold. But nothing ever happens.
crypto is only used to scam and buy illegal stuff
Bitcoin is eventually going to have a mass selloff. It will get bad enough for that. You will outlive Bitcoin.
>>724213810tbf a $500 amd apu rig will play most games at 1080p low-mid
>>724213810Never. Everything will get worse forever and no one will care enough to do anything about it. This applies to everything in life btw not just vidya
>>724213810Do what I do>Get older and busier>Play one 8 hour long game for like a week>Eventually your backlog becomes so big that if you do it in order, you'll be mostly playing 3-4 year old gamesAlso, as you get older you stop caring about FOMO.
>>724213810Games stopped sustainably advancing graphically in the 2000s, so there's not even a real reason to get more advanced GPUs.You don't need 4K at 120 FPS.
