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GrindingGears
joined 2 years ago
But it's ENHANCED this time.
Now shut up and give us your money. We have shareholders to enrich, won't anyone just think about the shareholders...
As a pirate, I refuse to read.
Just wanted to say arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr, though.
Shiver me timbers!
That's just it though. The top managers who make these decisions will probably be fine, half of them are probably at their desk this morning. It's always everyone else that has to pay the price for their management missteps.
You'd think after 30+ years of this shit, they'd realize they are fighting a losing battle. Actually, you'd think they'd also figure out that they should stop being rapey and molesting everyone too, but alas here we are...
Bruh, politics in Alberta is a mess. Full stop.
I just don't have any animosity towards any of these people. Are they the ones acting like lunatics? No. So why hold them accountable for others poor behaviors? Especially in Vancouver, that's holding people accountable for a foreign actors actions. It's kind of lunacy when you think of it.
He'll get taken care of, one way or another, I have no doubt on that. When people go to buy a car, I'm pretty sure a large portion of them are going to be pretty turned off by all of this, I know I am. I won't be racing down to buy another one anytime soon. But I am not holding myself accountable and complicit for a purchase I made a year and a half ago. Especially when it wasn't clear that Trump even had the Republican nomination until late summer 2024, and Elon didn't endorse Trump until July 2024. We all knew he was a bit of a child, but I dont think Joe Consumer could have foreseen all of this at time of purchase, even with Cybertruck orders. So why hold these people to blame?
Society in large numbers is pretty weird, on both sides of the political spectrum. Donald Trump isn't even the biggest evil that faces us either, it's what empowers him, and that's social media.
I still love my car, and enjoy driving it. I have nothing to do with the antics of their CEO, nor does it affect me in any way. It's even in a foreign country (I'm Canadian). Would I race down and buy another one, not after this, no. But at the same time, I don't look to the auto industry for the inspiration of ethical behavior. Look at VW and Diesel gate, not to mention they were started by the actual Nazis. When you see a beetle, that's an actual swastzicar. BMW, Mercedes came from terrible people. Henry Ford was an actual piece of shit, heck Ford and GM each donated over a million to celebrate Trump's inauguration, and could be seen to be just as complicit here. The former Chairman of Nissan had to be smuggled out of Japan in a coffin, just a few years ago, to escape criminal fraud charges. John Delorean himself got busted with a trunk full of cocaine in the 80s, trying to save his car company. Long long story short, don't equate your consumer purchase choices with conspiring with lunatics. You'd pretty soon have nothing, as everyone from Amazon, to the social media companies, to your favourite entertainers, all act with an appalling lack of ethical conduct.
I desperately wanted one of those a couple years ago, but no dice. It was largely a paper launch in Canada. Still don't see them very often either.
I fell for it last gen. Once I was done shoehorning (and I mean shoehorning) an oversized power supply, a video card that's the size of a bus terminal, and all those stupid splitter cables, I swore any further purchases off.
Everything is just way too expensive, the gains are marginal, and it's a lot of fuss all to just largely play re-rereleases of games that are 30+ years old, and other horribly optimized games that will take 2 years to sort out and in the meantime the computer you are using is irrelevant because it's just going to run like shit no matter what. The hardware itself is questionably optimized too.
I'm running this setup into the ground and when it comes to gaming, I'm a console guy going forward.
You could have a video card the size of a nuclear power plant, and it's still going to struggle with this unoptimized POS. Rockstar sucks at optimizing their games for PC, and it's kind of inexcusable at this point (most of their games are a decade+ old at this point). RDR2 was the only large exception, but it still struggles here and there. They especially seem to struggle with grass textures. Case in point, watch GTA 5, it's fine in the city. You'll be chugging along, 180FPS or whatever, but the minute you leave the city your frames drop to like <30 FPS in spots, unless you really turn the detail down.
So I had a 2070 in mine, and updated last year to a 4070ti. I'm not going to lie to you here, the difference hasn't been earth shattering. I mean it's obviously better, but if you are gaming in 1080p, you should still be good for a bit yet. Games are released so horrendously optimized anymore, it doesn't matter if you have your own personal nuclear power plant powering a video card the size of Texas, it's still going to suck.