Memory prices climb 500% in Sierra games

The weird part is that RAM used to be putting in an order weekly, I now haven't in almost three months. This was at the tail end of Covid where a lot of price gouging just because they can.

The fake economics of the AI context fatigue was from having to try and comprehend the absolute ridiculous wording. I cancelled my sub a while back (obviously). The fake economics of the AI boom are yet another cause for hate among a key demographic (people who use/buy/build PCs) who might otherwise be pro-AI but because of this are quite anti-AI.

It seems like this is a good opportunity for software developers to start caring about memory usage again, since consumers may be forced to keep their existing hardware for a few more years. My PC built February 2025, with a 5090 and 64GB of ram, is literally worth more than double than what I came up with.

Ultimately, I think this is going to be the component you barely thought about when budgeting a build. Interesting, as we increase our total global power consumption, losses in the form of heat will increase proportionally. This is more concerning than anything else happening in the AI space.