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KMFJD

Lifer
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zinfamous

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it's kinda like the reverse 1% economy: instead of money, the 3%ers invest in bullets and weaponry, and I imagine that a significant portion of them aren't all that wealthy. Seems to me that this group of people is largely held in thrall by an organization(s) that survives merely by keeping this small number of people largely uninformed, paranoid, and shitting their pants to the point that they willingly and endlessly spend their income defending themselves from phantom threats and false notions of some intangible concept like "patriotism"

I wonder what kind of shady organization would do something like that?
 

[DHT]Osiris

Lifer
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it's kinda like the reverse 1% economy: instead of money, the 3%ers invest in bullets and weaponry, and I imagine that a significant portion of them aren't all that wealthy. Seems to me that this group of people is largely held in thrall by an organization(s) that survives merely by keeping this small number of people largely uninformed, paranoid, and shitting their pants to the point that they willingly and endlessly spend their income defending themselves from phantom threats and false notions of some intangible concept like "patriotism"

I wonder what kind of shady organization would do something like that?
... Or it could be that they're enthusiasts, willing to go a long way in a direction that not everyone else does.
http://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/videocard/
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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti
MAY -
JUN 0.42%
JUL 0.53%
AUG 0.66%
SEP 0.65%
Delta -0.01%

Not everyone who's at the distant end of a given spectrum is a nutter, unless PC gaming hardware ownership also makes one a nutter, in which case I'm both a gun nutter and a PC gaming/hardware nutter..

What would your linked chart look like if it was referencing PC hardware? Vid cards? NVMe drives? K-class CPUs?
 

zinfamous

No Lifer
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... Or it could be that they're enthusiasts, willing to go a long way in a direction that not everyone else does.
http://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/videocard/
hws_nvidia.gif
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti
MAY -
JUN 0.42%
JUL 0.53%
AUG 0.66%
SEP 0.65%
Delta -0.01%

Not everyone who's at the distant end of a given spectrum is a nutter, unless PC gaming hardware ownership also makes one a nutter, in which case I'm both a gun nutter and a PC gaming/hardware nutter..

What would your linked chart look like if it was referencing PC hardware? Vid cards? NVMe drives? K-class CPUs?

wrong thread, but let's ignore the fact that you are comparing replacing a single GPU to replace another single GPU every couple of years (or months, for the true nutters) vs stockpiling a hoard of murder toys that essentially all do the same thing but with differently satisfying pew pew noises. I've just always been curious about what is the end point for killing capability for those that need hundreds of these things. And yes, I get weird collections and hobbies and all that.
 

Paratus

Lifer
Jun 4, 2004
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... Or it could be that they're enthusiasts, willing to go a long way in a direction that not everyone else does.
http://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/videocard/
hws_nvidia.gif
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti
MAY -
JUN 0.42%
JUL 0.53%
AUG 0.66%
SEP 0.65%
Delta -0.01%

Not everyone who's at the distant end of a given spectrum is a nutter, unless PC gaming hardware ownership also makes one a nutter, in which case I'm both a gun nutter and a PC gaming/hardware nutter..

What would your linked chart look like if it was referencing PC hardware? Vid cards? NVMe drives? K-class CPUs?

I see you don't frequent AT VC&G
 

[DHT]Osiris

Lifer
Dec 15, 2015
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I see you don't frequent AT VC&G
I do, this is an enthusiast board, so there's a much higher concentration of enthusiasts here than elsewhere. Copypasta for gun message boards.

EDIT: Unless you meant the nutter part, which really has more to do with red vs green than the actual expenditure of resources for VC's ;)