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[–] 238 points 2 years ago* (30 children)

It will at least be extremely funny to watch all the right wing gamer bro chuds freak the fuck out when an immediate consequence of their actions will be that gaming pc components instantly inflate 50% in price.

Glad I already got my Steam Deck, fuck.

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  • [–] 149 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    Bold of you to assune they won't just blame Dems because it isn't like reality matters.

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  • [–] 41 points 2 years ago (11 children)

    but but... Orange men said it was good for the economy, now I have to pay 2000 Dollars for a 5090? Why aren't they coming to America and produce here!?

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  • [–] [S] 21 points 2 years ago* (4 children)

    Good luck spending 3000$+ on RTX 5090 graphics brick

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Maybe we will finally get some optimised games.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    CHIPS Act? Never heard of it.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I know these things take time, but it's really hard not to be skeptical of CHIPS amounting to much. It reminds me too much of all the grant money given to telecom companies like AT&T and Verizon - supposed to be for improving infrastructure and implementing 5G, but they just pocketed the money as profit.

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    Its a pretty strategically and economically impactful piece of legislation pushed by, and then signed into law, by Biden, in 2022.

    It basically sets up a bunch of tax incentives and funds to go toward building out domestic computer hardware research and manufacturing.

    Its the kind of thing that would lay the foundation for the US building a lot more of its own computer hardware, instead of importing it.

    So when the Trump tariff apocalypse hits... assuming the CHIPS Act does not get repealed, it will be the only saving grace in terms of possibly lowering computer hardware costs.

    Trump and Republicans are likely to try and take credit for this, if domestic chip fabs start coming online before 2028, pretending it is something they came up with.

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  • [–] 18 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    It’s a small price to pay to keep pronouns away from our games.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

    yep! and by then it's too late. they've already shot themselves in the foot, they just haven't felt the pain yet.

    edit - and honestly, if we were actually producing all this stuff locally and competitively, I would be OK with these chinese tariffs since it would encourage buying USA-made. The problem is that we arent, and probably won't be for a while. we'd all suffer in the meantime.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    I really really hope that they will enact their economic agenda before their racist agenda. When they denaturalize and deport citizens, half of us will be cheering (unfortunately). When the price of electronics/ cars increases it distributes harm to all.

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