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the positive/negative parasocial relationships people have with AMD and NVIDIA (respectively) borders on "splitting" in the personality-disorder sense. AMD repr

by paulmd 3y ago

the positive/negative parasocial relationships people have with AMD and NVIDIA (respectively) borders on "splitting" in the personality-disorder sense. AMD represents everything wholesome and good about computing and nvidia represents everything bad and malicious about computing, to a lot of people. And when they see one of the brands they just have to hammer that post button to signal their virtue.

Hamuko 3y ago
>AMD represents everything wholesome and good about computing Must be an opinion of someone who has never had to deal with AMD customer support.
Dylan16807 3y ago
You're reading way too far into someone getting the context wrong.
- izacus 3y ago
  Nah, these off topic rants are pretty much there in every single topic here. Every AMD/nVidia article has bunch of people just ranting without even trying to read the topic.
  - Dylan16807 3y ago
    When the topic is explicitly a popularity contest, talking about which one is better is pretty reasonable.
    - izacus 3y ago
      No, ranting how nVidia kicked your dog because your favorite screensaver doesn't work in a topic about CUDA computation on Linux is not reasonable.
      - Dylan16807 3y ago
        > in a topic about CUDA computation That doesn't sound like a topic about a popularity contest. So why did you say "No"? Your statement doesn't disagree with mine.
- paulmd 3y ago
  Even here on HN, even when it isn’t a mistake, basically any thread that mentions nvidia essentially devolves into “Linus said fuck nvidia”. It’s effectively a thought-terminating cliche and it poisons almost every GPU discussion. It’s really not just the Linus thing either. Every time AMD does anything anti-consumer people feel the need to temper it with praise about all the good they’ve done, and give them every benefit of the doubt about “maybe this isn’t true, maybe they had a good reason, etc” while every single thing nvidia does is viewed through the most negative and malicious possible lens. It’s pretty clearly some variety of splitting plus parasocial attachment, AMD is “the good one” and nvidia is the bad one. Anyway, it just sucks because it poisons discourse. How many posts did we get into this thread before the “Linus said fuck nvidia” canard came out? Zero, they opened right up with the thought-terminating cliche. It gets old after the 10,000th time.
  - izacus 3y ago
    This, the toxic fanboyism around this is uttery exausting to read. (I also love how you're being downvoted for wishing for a better debate without fanboy rants.)

by paulmd 3y ago

Hamuko 3y ago

>AMD represents everything wholesome and good about computing Must be an opinion of someone who has never had to deal with AMD customer support.

Dylan16807 3y ago

You're reading way too far into someone getting the context wrong.

izacus 3y ago
Nah, these off topic rants are pretty much there in every single topic here. Every AMD/nVidia article has bunch of people just ranting without even trying to read the topic.
- Dylan16807 3y ago
  When the topic is explicitly a popularity contest, talking about which one is better is pretty reasonable.
  - izacus 3y ago
    No, ranting how nVidia kicked your dog because your favorite screensaver doesn't work in a topic about CUDA computation on Linux is not reasonable.
    - Dylan16807 3y ago
      > in a topic about CUDA computation That doesn't sound like a topic about a popularity contest. So why did you say "No"? Your statement doesn't disagree with mine.
paulmd 3y ago
Even here on HN, even when it isn’t a mistake, basically any thread that mentions nvidia essentially devolves into “Linus said fuck nvidia”. It’s effectively a thought-terminating cliche and it poisons almost every GPU discussion. It’s really not just the Linus thing either. Every time AMD does anything anti-consumer people feel the need to temper it with praise about all the good they’ve done, and give them every benefit of the doubt about “maybe this isn’t true, maybe they had a good reason, etc” while every single thing nvidia does is viewed through the most negative and malicious possible lens. It’s pretty clearly some variety of splitting plus parasocial attachment, AMD is “the good one” and nvidia is the bad one. Anyway, it just sucks because it poisons discourse. How many posts did we get into this thread before the “Linus said fuck nvidia” canard came out? Zero, they opened right up with the thought-terminating cliche. It gets old after the 10,000th time.
- izacus 3y ago
  This, the toxic fanboyism around this is uttery exausting to read. (I also love how you're being downvoted for wishing for a better debate without fanboy rants.)