My 'new' PC

The red circle is when I finished my list, and I was thinking "Oh, I'll wait for some stuff to go on sale, maybe I'll save a few bucks for being patient."

NOPE!! Fuck me man, holy hell.

I decided to just buy my ram anyways, literally it has been 10 years. I'm running a 4790k and gtx 1080 always overclocked and my ram is slow and sucks and my hardware is so old I guess I don't have some hardware security chip everything has now and man fuck all this. 

I didn't even buy a graphics card because I didn't have enough money, but its OK, because I don't really play games these days anyways.

Maybe some day I'll get a card for cheap. The thing is, you can't even wait for next gen shit to lower cost of last gen anymore, because they fucking stop production like, before the next gen is even out. 

So by the time the next gen is out, the supply is dwindling for last gen, which drives up cost. Happened with DDR4 and every graphics card ever fuck my life I can't have shit.

But I can have shit, I realized, and I clicked buy anyways. Because whatever man I'm going to die and I want my fucking pc for my stupid fucking bedroom studio.

Anyways I went for the Intel Ultra 7 265KF because it has the best performance per dollar for what I want to do. (productivity and creative tasks, not a gamer)

You know whats insane? The sheer amount of obvious marketing bots on Reddit. I used to turn to Reddit for anecdotal information because it is full of people who adamantly share their opinions. It's good for things like seeing both sides of an argument, or air fryer recipes.

I hopped on Reddit when researching cpus bc I have paid zero attention for like 6 years and its just a ton of obvious throwaway bots slandering the competitor's hardware. And people fall for it. It's literally targeted disinformation I had to just go look at the fucking numbers myself, damn, these people are stupid.

I've always been slightly above average intelligence, and since I grew up around a lot of super smart people I developed a complex about being stupid.

People are definitely getting dumber. I am definitely not getting much smarter, I smoke a ton of weed and don't sleep right. But I feel smarter every year as the curve slips downwards towards room temp.