I give a thumbs down to any Teslas I see. Whether or not they notice I have no idea, but it’s satisfying for sure!

I realized I forgot to reply here, but you covered it all pretty thoroughly! I don’t find it appetizing anymore, though I do miss the texture of gummies and still hope to find something closer to it than pectin, but trying to jump through all the mental hoops to justify it etc just ain’t worth it. I draw a pretty simple line at whether an animal dies for something or not, and that works well for me. It isn’t particularly difficult to find alternatives to stuff like altoids either, though I will say I like their classier metal tin ahaha. But I just gave them away and bought something else, easy peasy

Yeah, I’ve had (many of…) them while overseas and they’re probably some of my favorite veggie gummies, but sadly quite expensive back here in the states. They’re a precious part of my luggage returning ahaha, maybe not entirely a bad thing I can’t get them quite that cheap here… that and freia chocolate

They sneak gelatin into so many things too. One that got me for a year or two after I went vegetarian was Altoids. I liked to keep em in my car to have something to munch/occupy myself while driving, and never even thought to check the ingredients. How could mints have animal in em? Turns out they have gelatin! I honestly never miss meat or anything, but I do miss gelatin to a degree. Not because I want gelatin in particular, but it’s in so many tasty things, and vegetarian gummies and the like are always so expensive ;_;

I do like 4k personally, I like the extra clarity and distant details you can see, and the crisp text and icons are nice to have as well. Especially with a big monitor, it feels quite immersive in games and gives you a lot of desktop space to use too. It’s definitely a luxury though compared to 1440p, which is a much better price/quality ratio. It’s taxing on performance too, but my 7900xt can run most anything I play at medium/high at ~90+ FPS, and I tend to be pretty picky about framerate as I’m sensitive to input latency. Certainly not a low end card, but far from a 5090 or even 5080, and games still look great since medium/high usually still has a plenty of eye candy enabled. With upscaling like FSR and DLSS, you can drop the res slightly too and still have a pretty much native experience since you’re still working with a very high quality input, but that can help give a nice performance boost.

I’d still recommend 1440p to most, but it’s not too difficult to have a great experience with 4k, you certainly don’t need OPs level of hardware for it. I played for months with a 5700xt even, and while it sometimes struggled, it was playable enough at low/medium settings to have a nice time. I upgraded to the 7900xt mainly because I fried my 5700xt and it wouldn’t stop crashing ahaha, otherwise I would’ve waited longer most likely

One thing to note, the idea of running everything at max at 4k is an extremely costly endeavor with severely diminishing returns. The difference between max and high settings in most games is very minimal (especially if you spend a minute tweaking settings) but the performance hit of maxed settings is often massive. A 5090 will certainly perform the best, but even that won’t play literally everything maxed at 4k/high frame rate, and a 5080 or 9070xt for like half the price or less will get you very close visually, while also using quite a bit less power. You’d be able to save on your PSU, as well as the energy costs too. It’ll also dump less heat into the case, which makes cooling easier. So If money is no object at all, the 5090 is hard not to recommend, but otherwise something cheaper would get you 95% of the way there

Well those billionaires can barely scrape together enough for taxes as is, have some pity…