G*mers continue to seethe against crypto and scalper chads as global chip shortages show little signs of improving.

Backstory:

Ever since the lockdowns began there has been a massive surge on electronics, far exceeding chip production capacities. Chip manufacturing is very complex and expensive, making it impossible to increase production on the fly. This has resulted in one of the worst semi-conductor shortages in history, with losses estimated in the hundreds of billions of dollars, especially in the car industry. Gaming was also hit hard. Graphics cards and game consoles use large chips, and there are only two companies in the world that have the machines capable of producing them (TSMC / Samsung). As a result prices have gone crazy, and scalper chads started buying up the limited stock so they could flip it for profit. Crypto chads then started using graphics cards to mine crypto currencies (notably Ethereum), thus worsening the shortages even more. As you can imagine, g*mers are not too happy with this situation and have lost all patience.

Chip designer NVIDIA just announced that they'll start bringing back older discontinued models (RTX 2060's) that can be manufactured on older machines, and earlier this year they also introduced a crypto-mining limiter on their newer 30-series models to try and dissuade people from using these cards for mining. The older cards however do not have this limiter, meaning miners will likely start buying them all up. Prices are already higher than the original launch price from years ago, and stock is virtually non-existent.

1. Reddit NVIDIA sub seethe
2. Seething at miners on Videocardz.com, scroll down to see comments
3. NVIDIA sub not too happy about new models being introduced when current ones are so expensive and already hard to find
4. Same as above but different thread

Lmao are we just gonna accept that the marketing department at least tried their best at damage mitigation since this is just straight up a mining card. At least when crytpo mining (hopefully) dies in the next two weeks years anyone will be able to pick up a 2060 on ebay for $200

Spotted a few antiwo's as well.