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Going back through your specs…bro a 4090 costs basically the same as my whole PC that’s running games at 120 FPS+ on a 4k monitor with no issues.
Check out combo deals on Newegg for Mobo+RAM+CPU, or Microcenter if you have one nearby (I don’t). Your biggest factor for gaming will be the GPU. You can run 60+ FPS on a 1080P monitor on 5 year old midrange GPUs. If you need 4k res, ask on PCPartPicker forums.
What I usually tell people is “set a budget”. You can always fall in to the trap of $20 more here, $40 more there…etc and explode your budget.
If you can keep moving the needle, you can keep dumping more into better components in different areas.
Use PCPartPicker to make sure everything is compatible, check the price history to see if there’s a similar component available for cheaper or if you’re getting a good value, and make decisions on what is necessary. Also, pick a date. You can hang around for MONTHS waiting on a certain part to hit a price drop.
The beads speak for themselves
I second John Dies At The End. You may find it under the pen name “David Wong”. Amazing book and a really great movie adaptation, IMO as someone who watched the movie first.
Oh yes, all the intelligent sentient life forms that exist an incomprehensible number of light years away from us with the knowledge and technology to manage and survive that journey both TOTALLY care about us as a species enough to try meaningful contact, but are TERRIFIED of our…satellites and exploratory rovers that haven’t left our Solar System.
I don’t doubt that we’d be ridiculously hostile to an extraterrestrial emissary if that were a thing, but like.
…bro they would have to be so much more technologically advanced than us to even make that happen in the first place that we’re basically little greedy squirrels in comparison.
I’m not MAD, I’m just disappointed. And glad I stayed on other apps for podcasts this whole time. Counting the days until they kill YouTube Music for yet another new app that does mostly the same thing but shittier for a couple years until they rinse and repeat the cycle.
The key point IMO is that it’s generally accepted that life exists on other planets. The issue I have is any dissent to the thought that there is intelligent life on other planets. Statistically, it’s more likely that there IS other intelligent life than that there ISN’T, even based solely off the fact that intelligent life is a known fact, and the universe as a whole is so much bigger than we can see/know/comprehend. We’re basically nothing in the universal scale, I can’t comprehend that we’re solely unique in that aspect.
My generalistic perspective is that other sentient, intelligent life absolutely exists, or did exist, or will exist, but in my lifetime, and the lifetime of our species in the galaxy, we are not likely to make any comprehensible, meaningful contact that will give an undeniable and definitive answer.