I’ve done that, and found the same.

But, this person asked for less unethical.

Not ‘and also, of similar competence.’

At this point I really do think we need to be forming something like Mondragon-esque, worker governed co-ops, collectives.

Unions aren’t enough, back to anarcho-syndicalism, but digital this time!

Yeah I mean, at this point, I can very easily see someone saying that either very genuienly, or very sarcastically.

Hence why I asked / phrased it as a two pronged response.

Glad to know you were indeed doing a bit, but uh yeah, I’m autistic enough that I just ask, because I have encountered a large number of people who would just ssy things like that, entirely seriously.

No.

We won’t.

We will get movies designed as either patriotic/honorable, wildly unrealistic, aspirational lifestyle glamorization … pure cope/hopium, saccharine, hero/success fantasies for adult children to live vicariously through… and warrior hero stories where the plot is incited by external or seditious threats.

That’s very roughly what happened to German cinema when the Nazis took over.

We will just have machines making the slop, instead of demented sycophants.

… there won’t be any money for things that cause people to maybe actually think!

You want to program compliance and shame into people, not curiosity, not disobedience.

Fight Club was not an initial success, and it largely tricked people via its marketing, into making people think it was going to be something closer to Rocky, but edgier… than a psycho-social critique of basically all of society.

Fight Club is an anomaly.

You might try some kind of open source non profit.

No guarantees, but likely at least less evil.

Correct.

A person who knows about evil and continues to participate in perpetuating it?

That is the definition of complicit.

You either quit, become a hypocrite and coward, or embrace and justify the evil.

Left, liberal, conservative.

Thats pretty much how USAmerican terminology for politics/society works.

“I’m just a willing cog in the machine that produces death and destruction, for my own personal benefit.”

“I’m just doing what I have to do to get by.”

I very much hope you are joking / doing this as a bit, because if you are serious, you are a hypocrite and a coward.

I literally quit Microsoft in large part because I could not morally myself justify working for such a manipulative, lying, exploitative company.

And that was a decade ago.

Yeah, yeah if you work MSFT, you have less moral character than I do, you are certainly aiding and abetting evil; even if you’re not directly doing the super evil shit, you’re helping the gears keep grinding along.

Oh look, its literally everyone who works in HR and Marketing, tech industry or not!

HR: You gaslight workers.

Marketing: You gaslight consumers.

Yep.

You can avoid having to do something like a total refactor that takes half the year, if you do the rough equivalent of a sanity check / clean up pass, when any new system or feature set is added, and make that habitual.

Its… kinda like how if you just do a bit of regular shopping, regular meal prep, regularly do the dishes, whatever, everything just flows easier in general.

The longer you run lean, move fast and break things… yeah it can improve output in the short term, but medium to long term, you’ll run yourself ragged, and things will break and fall apart.

Its likely a mix of Garry and maybe 2 to 4 other coders, who Garry assigns to develop various subsystems off of his broken core systems.

Thats exactly how he did it during Garry’s Mod.

If you were to talk like this in any job I’ve ever worked at, you’d be fired in about a week, maybe faster.

Same with writing emails with this language.

And you’re missing my point that if you made your own functions… and they don’t work right, … you should fix those functions, rework them.

Not doing that is how you get technical debt, spaghetti code, which is bad for you, bad for what you’re trying to do, bad for anyone else trying to help you do it.

Commenting on a bunch of slapdash fixes is like covering holes you punched in your wall with framed graffitti about how frustrated you are.

If you saw that in a date’s home, you’d hopefully recognizr that as a red flag and nope the hell out.

If everybody else is too busy to actually fix the code, you have inept project management.

You as well have clearly never worked in an actual professional software dev environment, if you think this is reasonable or defensible.

Garry’s Mod. Rust (the game, not the programming language).

Potato, potato.

I… am an econometrician, programmer and hardcore gamer, rofl.

Yeah, watching this has been fucking insane.

I used to work for a major international logistics company, made the reports for C Suite.

I guarantee you people at my old firm were literally pulling out their hair when the de minimis exemption got annulled.

… anyway, as far as PC builds go?

Here’s the best possible bang for your buck, as far as I can tell:

Minisforum BD790i se, + RX 9070.

Put that, a 600W PSU, 32 gb sys ram, 1 or 2 TB SSD, and a big ole fan on top of the cpu, all inside an ITX lunchbox?

~$1500, and that’ll get you over 60 fps on nearly anything, at nearly any settings level, at 1440p. Most games you’ll be over 90 or 120fps.

Its more or less a Steam Machine on steroids.

… presuming you are running Linux, lol.

Its not that its getting more expensive to produce though, its not like a gigantic typhoon / tsunami has shut down mfgering or that input prices has risen dramatically.

… its that US companies are hoarding.

Like how bitcoin miners hoarded all the GPUs not too long ago?

US companies are hoarding system RAM, stockpiling.

Unless demand has collapsed so hard that retailers can’t even move whats been sitting in their warehouses for 6 months.

Then… it could be more complicated.

Yeah, prices will go up if they have to actually order new GPUs through tariffs…

But, if they just… think demand has collapsed significantly… they just won’t order anything very expensive they don’t think they can sell, and then you get a whole bunch of nonsense in secondary, second hand market… kinda like whats going on with used cars in the US right now.

Oh, are you a used car dealer? You get to buy a 120k truck that has been sitting on a dealers lot for so long that its been repo’d from the dealership… you can get that at auction for 20-30k.

But god knows what that second dealer is gonna try and charge for it.

You’ve somehow gotten two downvotes, but nothing you’ve really said is incorrect.

Well, I mean, I think $250 for 32gb sys RAM is a bit ridiculous, buuuuut…

Yeah, yeah, for most GPUs, at least in the US?

You scammed yourself if you bought one late last year / early this year.

Nobody (in terms of retailers and GPU mfgers) expected the economy to fucking nuke itself after more or less Trump decided to turn a very, very shaky, almost/maybe “recovery” (really more like ‘stabilization’), into a tumbling collapse down a cliffside.

People also just arent’t spending anywhere near as much on video games, the things you use the consumer grade GPU to play.

(Expect a lot of AAA publishers/studios to either go very, very big into debt/buyouts, or just utterly collapse in 2026.)

So, the result is, for the large part… demand has cratered, retailers are sitting on too much supply, and storing shit in a warehouse indefinitely costs money, so they’ve just been ticking down prices to try and induce demand.

Consumer spending in general is collapsing, so uh… yeah, fairly good time to buy now, assuming you’re not in the ~60% of Americans who do not have $1,000 set aside for an emergency.

I did not know lenovo just straight up said they’re sitting on a 150% of regular parts inventory, but uh yeah, if the entire computer industry basicslly becomes hoarders, yeah, yeah, that’d cause a price spike in system ram alright…

It really is a simple as… system ram is modular and can go into a bunch of shit, GPU ram is already part of the board, and just generally, consumer oriented GPUs are waaaaay more niche than consumer oriented system RAM.

A bit late to the party on this one, but Facepunch just opensourced a bunch of their code, I nominate that.

Yep.

Not too long ago I was explaining to people how Garry is both an asshole and bad at coding… now we get to see the unprofessional struggle session.

Like, if you are frustrated that calling methods from your own code base doesn’t work… maybe fix your code’s utility functions?

Instead of doing one off hackjobs for everything?

Any serious, experienced coder has tendencies toward this or even versions of their code with some of this kind of stuff in it.

… but you fucking clean it up and rewrite the rage with actually helpful documentation, if you actually give a damn about other people who might use it.

As the TF2 Sniper put it:

Professionals have standards.