Pity you decided to change it in the dialogue. Keeping it with the mistake (if it was there) would be way more authentic, given how Lucas is a long-time gamer. Ah well… Can’t have your cake and eat it, I guess.
In the moment, maybe, while most of us are still used to GTX. But ten/fifteen years from now it would just be an error, like “He’s staring right at the box, why is he calling it a GTX?”
no thanks nintendo
2 years ago
I’m more impressed that it got delivered in time. Shoutout to all the delivery service employees doing their best to deal with the Christmas rush, the pandemic, and in the northeast the 3′ of snow we got last week.
Prime_pm
2 years ago
I just upgraded mine to the GTX 1070 in order to upgrade the graphics, and extra RAM to give it better speed, after upgrading to Windows 10.
And the motherfucker still crashes at random. Never buy a PC off Ebay.
Computers and parts of them are one of the things I’d never by on Ebay.
You can’t know if something is wrong with it, or what the previous owner has done to it.
Wait, did you mean you upgraded *from* a GTX 1070? Because if you upgraded *to* a GTX 1070, you just bought a 4-year-old mid-range GPU, probably for far too much money.
If Prime has just done the W10 upgrade, and bought the card off Ebay, a GTX 1070 is probably not too expensive and still a viable choice.
My gaming box was last seriously upgraded about 3 years ago an I’m still running everything on the same hardware. Although it is getting to the time to rip out and replace a few parts again…
JK JK
2 years ago
Good one! 🙂 Happy Holidays!!!!
Gnarph
2 years ago
As a IT worker for a major retailer who had to deal with said bots: I see you there Zeke and I am not amused.
Kasaix
2 years ago
Merry Christmas, Tim! I hope you have as great a time as one can have given the circumstances.
Verdiekus
2 years ago
Lmfao, merry Xmas and have a happy new Year
Eldest Gruff
2 years ago
What I’m wondering is, did any of them give X1 a Christmas present?
Was curious if they’d show up as well, though I don’t see much them being much of a fighting force — I’m imagining a “PC” character on a peaceful farm with a coop full of little winged KFConsoles.
Or maybe a Switch / WiiU dressed as Link harassing some with a sword…
leduk
2 years ago
I must say: I have no clue what ‘bot using to snag’ means at all. And google trad didnt help me.
So everyone’s using bots (that’s a type of computer program) to snag (get, purchase, buy, acquire, obtain) a card. Bot is faster than human, so it can buy a card microseconds after it becomes available
There are bots (as described above) that will scan a large number of retailers over and over and complete several transactions, as well as ones that allow the person to cut to the front of the online purchasing queue (Sony is doing queues) and buy as many as they want despite limits.
Sky Child
2 years ago
Merry Christmas Tim! I just realized I’ve been checking CAD at least weekly for a decade. Thanks for your humor, it’s rad.
william scott
2 years ago
well played Ethan, well played..
he who rages
2 years ago
lol, love this one
Devil_Arcana
2 years ago
PERFECT!!! Mua Ha Ha Ha!!!
Zyxian
2 years ago
Merry Christmas Tim and to your family – every one. (Yes I made a Little Tim reference)
Thank you for all the hard work you put into your craft.
Vedrit
2 years ago
It’s not an exploit if it’s following the rules.
Michael Livote
2 years ago
Merry Christmas Tim+Family 🙂
ghost of the system
2 years ago
2 Superheroes living together with a modified X-Box Ninja is 1 thing.
But a 3080? Come on! Thats a little far fetched! These things only exist in the wild dreams of some crackhead working marketing in Nvidia headquarters.
I bet they just did this to make a fool out of AMD and they called it: “ok then we release our own new imaganary GPU here is the new 6800 RTX!”
…its just very sad that by now, even in their own dreams AMD is still behind Nvidia…
but oh well, Merry fucking christmas anyway;)
Javada
2 years ago
NICE PLAY, Ethan!
LemonSqueezy
2 years ago
can’t wait for wintereenmas! rip original Ethan.
Crestlinger
2 years ago
MERRY CHRISTMAS!
DDM_Reaper20
2 years ago
I LOVE that comic.
Rhys Murphy
2 years ago
Jesus this feels like 2000’s and early 2010’s cad again. Love it
Caleb
2 years ago
In the immortal words of TeamFourStar Vegeta “funny thing is, I know you’re playing me… but”
24
And thus were Ethan’s true motives for the WiFi revealed.
Next he’ll be using Xeke-01 (see what I did there?) to download and store porn!
Scalpers suck. Controversial, I know.
Other controversial takes
Murder is bad.
Cookies are good.
Winter is cold.
Fire is hot.
People die when they are killed
I mean…. not Ethan?
Ethan dies, he just doesn’t stay dead.
Ethan does die each time
He got better
Whether or not he’s a person is still debatable.
The Archer Class is made up of Archers.
All carpenters live on Carpenter Street.
Murdering Hitler or some such…
Sugar and diabetes, or maybe some spiel about conditioning people to have low self control…
Cold isn’t even a thing, and even the harshest winters are over 100 degrees Kelvin. That’s heat.
Fire is literally one tenth the temperature of the sun; that sounds pretty cold to me.
Controversy is more of a state of mind.
In this case its clearly “someone’s” state of mind
so he can be smart XD
Ethan has always been smart. He is just differently rational at times. . . Most times. . .
Lucas habitually says GTX instead of RTX too eh? Glad I’m not the only one.
I didnt even know it changed, relooked at the box.
It changed *two years ago*, lol.
Apparently neither did I XD I wrote the dialogue before grabbing reference for the box, and never even really looked at it.
that’s even better
The switch to RTX happened when they added ray tracing support.
Pity you decided to change it in the dialogue. Keeping it with the mistake (if it was there) would be way more authentic, given how Lucas is a long-time gamer. Ah well… Can’t have your cake and eat it, I guess.
In the moment, maybe, while most of us are still used to GTX. But ten/fifteen years from now it would just be an error, like “He’s staring right at the box, why is he calling it a GTX?”
I’m more impressed that it got delivered in time. Shoutout to all the delivery service employees doing their best to deal with the Christmas rush, the pandemic, and in the northeast the 3′ of snow we got last week.
I just upgraded mine to the GTX 1070 in order to upgrade the graphics, and extra RAM to give it better speed, after upgrading to Windows 10.
And the motherfucker still crashes at random. Never buy a PC off Ebay.
Computers and parts of them are one of the things I’d never by on Ebay.
You can’t know if something is wrong with it, or what the previous owner has done to it.
Especially with graphics cards. A lot of the ones sold on Ebay were used as bitcoin mining devices and are being sold because they’ve been overused.
Wait, did you mean you upgraded *from* a GTX 1070? Because if you upgraded *to* a GTX 1070, you just bought a 4-year-old mid-range GPU, probably for far too much money.
If Prime has just done the W10 upgrade, and bought the card off Ebay, a GTX 1070 is probably not too expensive and still a viable choice.
My gaming box was last seriously upgraded about 3 years ago an I’m still running everything on the same hardware. Although it is getting to the time to rip out and replace a few parts again…
Good one! 🙂 Happy Holidays!!!!
As a IT worker for a major retailer who had to deal with said bots: I see you there Zeke and I am not amused.
Merry Christmas, Tim! I hope you have as great a time as one can have given the circumstances.
Lmfao, merry Xmas and have a happy new Year
What I’m wondering is, did any of them give X1 a Christmas present?
Should have done that to get a PS5.
dammit Jim! I’m a highly advanced robotic AI not a miracle worker.
The human emotion of jealousy
If only I had my own Xbot to get me a new Xbox. I’ve been a part of two retail rushes so far, and have yet to snag one.
Merry Christmas!!
We are really going to need to see the KFConsole in the console wars. Could be hilarious! I could see Ethan having a few panels on it too!
Was curious if they’d show up as well, though I don’t see much them being much of a fighting force — I’m imagining a “PC” character on a peaceful farm with a coop full of little winged KFConsoles.
Or maybe a Switch / WiiU dressed as Link harassing some with a sword…
I must say: I have no clue what ‘bot using to snag’ means at all. And google trad didnt help me.
So everyone’s using bots (that’s a type of computer program) to snag (get, purchase, buy, acquire, obtain) a card. Bot is faster than human, so it can buy a card microseconds after it becomes available
ohh. I didnt even know that kind of things existed for regular ppl. That’s why I didnt get it. Thanks a lot.
There are bots (as described above) that will scan a large number of retailers over and over and complete several transactions, as well as ones that allow the person to cut to the front of the online purchasing queue (Sony is doing queues) and buy as many as they want despite limits.
Merry Christmas Tim! I just realized I’ve been checking CAD at least weekly for a decade. Thanks for your humor, it’s rad.
well played Ethan, well played..
lol, love this one
PERFECT!!! Mua Ha Ha Ha!!!
Merry Christmas Tim and to your family – every one. (Yes I made a Little Tim reference)
Thank you for all the hard work you put into your craft.
It’s not an exploit if it’s following the rules.
Merry Christmas Tim+Family 🙂
2 Superheroes living together with a modified X-Box Ninja is 1 thing.
But a 3080? Come on! Thats a little far fetched! These things only exist in the wild dreams of some crackhead working marketing in Nvidia headquarters.
I bet they just did this to make a fool out of AMD and they called it: “ok then we release our own new imaganary GPU here is the new 6800 RTX!”
…its just very sad that by now, even in their own dreams AMD is still behind Nvidia…
but oh well, Merry fucking christmas anyway;)
NICE PLAY, Ethan!
can’t wait for wintereenmas! rip original Ethan.
MERRY CHRISTMAS!
I LOVE that comic.
Jesus this feels like 2000’s and early 2010’s cad again. Love it
In the immortal words of TeamFourStar Vegeta “funny thing is, I know you’re playing me… but”