General discussions about GPU, employment and prices

[Morbid Angel]

Remember what I said about user time? You wasting lot of your user time over the years will be way more expensive then this chip that will cut your user time by a factor of 5.

[glorybound]

I agree.., and a $6000 chip isn't bad if you think about it. People in our business drop 5-6 grand on a PC every few years. I'll have to see if my motherboard can support such a chip. It won't be soon, since I just purchased this PC for $2000, and $1800 for the 4090; maybe in a few months.

[Morbid Angel]

The whole system is about $15000, but trust me such system enabled me to work 4 hours instead of 8 of the work day for last 3 years isn't that worth something?

[glorybound]

Since COVID and the world went crazy, oh, and I moved to stupidly expensive California, money does not come that easy anymore. With interest rate hikes, five in a year, it is crazy expensive to live. I’ll wait for the world market to crash and pick up a dozen of those $15000 computers for a few thousand . People have been playing games lately, too. Get the deposit, and people run the course, pulling the plug on a project when it is 99% done, never seeing them again. I don’t release images until they are paid for, so I think they are printing screen and using the images that way. Three projects this year went this way, all from larger architectural firms. With AI up-scaling, and watermark removal, they are scamming, thinking they are being business savvy. Unless they owe you $15,000 or more, a lawyer won't even talk to you. Plus, the lawyer I talked to said nobody cares about an out-of-state judgement, anyway. I can spend the time and money is small claims, but again, they don't care. I'll be awarded the judgment, and won't see a dime being out of pocket for the cost to sue. They know the game and play it well. The only thing a judgement will do is make their dirty deeds public record.

[Morbid Angel]

It's not great in visual effects right now either. Strike, nothing is being shot. Lots of places laying off people. It's going to take 6mo-year to recover if not longer.

[glorybound]

Too bad there is not unemplyment for freelancers. Good luck!

[Pixelcon]

Too bad there is not unemplyment for freelancers. Good luck!

Maybe not in the US...