102 GTA6 Leaker, Microsoft Layoffs, Steam Economy
Aug 26, 2026 · 1 hr 8 min · 11 segments
Aug 26, 2026 · 1 hr 8 min · 11 segments
It turns out we're going to be running out of our DRAMs, our RAMs, our, you know, the things that we need to play our PC computer with.
God damn it, my phone just rang.
I need to put it in silent.
All of the RAM.
All of the RAM.
Every RAM's gone.
All of it.
Well, it's something of a continuing news, isn't it? Like we've been hearing about the shortage of these random access memory, as the kids like to call it.
They're all kind of like, you know, being hijacked.
They're being like, you know, not hijacked, but like... just collected by all these new AI data centers and AI centers and they have basically crowded out your mom and pops video gaming people like you and me and now it looks like we're not the shortage is going to continue up until the next year as well
can I ask you something real quick
yes
The companies that it's listed, those are the same ones that we talked about having the monopoly.
Yeah.
Like two episodes ago or whatever, right?
Actually, the right term is oligopoly.
Oh, okay.
I just literally like flexed my glasses up just so I could say that.
Um,
actually, yeah, that's the one we're talking about.
In fact, they're the ones also we're talking about who were kind of being targeted and potentially investigated for a cartelization, which is like, you know, they're controlling the supply of these memories that these chips there's.
hardwares, that these three are the biggest producers, like the three biggest producers of all the RAMs that we use.
And because of their position in the market, they have the ability to restrict the supply and focus it on these AI data center and not leave anything for the rest of us.
So people are There are governments trying to see if they have done any kind of these, what they call cartelization.
They're working like a cartel in order to restrict supply and increase the prices that they can.
It turns out we're going to be running out of our DRAMs, our RAMs, our, you know, the things that we need to play our PC computer with.
God damn it, my phone just rang.
I need to put it in silent.
All of the RAM.
All of the RAM.
Every RAM's gone.
All of it.
Well, it's something of a continuing news, isn't it? Like we've been hearing about the shortage of these random access memory, as the kids like to call it.
They're all kind of like, you know, being hijacked.
They're being like, you know, not hijacked, but like... just collected by all these new AI data centers and AI centers and they have basically crowded out your mom and pops video gaming people like you and me and now it looks like we're not the shortage is going to continue up until the next year as well
can I ask you something real quick
yes
The companies that it's listed, those are the same ones that we talked about having the monopoly.
Yeah.
Like two episodes ago or whatever, right?
Actually, the right term is oligopoly.
Oh, okay.
I just literally like flexed my glasses up just so I could say that.
Um,
actually, yeah, that's the one we're talking about.
In fact, they're the ones also we're talking about who were kind of being targeted and potentially investigated for a cartelization, which is like, you know, they're controlling the supply of these memories that these chips there's.
hardwares, that these three are the biggest producers, like the three biggest producers of all the RAMs that we use.
And because of their position in the market, they have the ability to restrict the supply and focus it on these AI data center and not leave anything for the rest of us.
So people are There are governments trying to see if they have done any kind of these, what they call cartelization.
They're working like a cartel in order to restrict supply and increase the prices that they can.
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