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GTA style heisting over a truck full of GPUs.

Postby Valentine Z » Thu Nov 04, 2021 7:20 pm

Yes, you heard that right! I was going to put this in the gaming thread or in the NFT thread, but doesn't seem to fit here or there. So here! this happened - a GTA style heist over the GPUs.

More source needed? From the man himself, Product Manager Jacob Freeman, on the EVGA forums:

"PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that on October 29, 2021, a shipment of EVGA GeForce RTX 30-Series Graphics Cards was stolen from a truck en route from San Francisco to our Southern California distribution center.

These graphics cards are in high demand and each has an estimated retail value starting at $329.99 up to $1959.99 MSRP."

So, hey! What do you think? Is this just a freak incident and robbery, or was this the first of many to come due to the rise in demands for the cards?

To preface, I don't condone this sort of heist or stealing. With that said, it's going to be not only a can of worms, but a whole barrel of it - I'm going to say that this is all from the rising demands of GPUs - NFTs and crypto, scalping, and the whole nine yards. If we can somehow deal with the scalpers and NFTs, the whole thing just might ease up a tad on the whole chip shortage. Maybe.
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Postby Archinstinct » Thu Nov 04, 2021 7:29 pm

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Postby The Hazar Amisnery » Thu Nov 04, 2021 7:38 pm

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Postby Soviet Socialist Kazakhstan » Thu Nov 04, 2021 7:51 pm

The Hazar Amisnery wrote:Video games do cause violence


Capitalism causes violence. Abolish capitalism and the violence will someday stop under the glorious, stateless, classless utopia that will follow.
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Postby Rusozak » Thu Nov 04, 2021 11:09 pm

I'm curious to how the heist was actually performed, and if they take extra precautions when a truck is hauling high value cargo like that.
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Postby Saradena » Thu Nov 04, 2021 11:17 pm

I can feel my skin crawl on the possible price mark-up for these GPUs if they ever get re-sold.
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Postby Galactic Transylvania » Fri Nov 05, 2021 1:29 am

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The Hazar Amisnery wrote:Video games do cause violence


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Postby Wapistan » Fri Nov 05, 2021 1:38 am

Sounds like the kind of thing that would be a side mission in a GTA game. Seems like the kind of thing Rockstar would parody in one of their games If they even are making a new game

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Postby -Astoria- » Fri Nov 05, 2021 3:20 am

Wapistan wrote:Sounds like the kind of thing that would be a side mission in a GTA game. Seems like the kind of thing Rockstar would parody in one of their games If they even are making a new game

  • Title: Processing the Units
  • Description: Steal the shipment of graphics cards from a truck before it reaches the distribution centre
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Postby Vassenor » Fri Nov 05, 2021 4:04 am

GTA-style heist?

Fast and Furious did it first dammit.
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Postby Kubra » Fri Nov 05, 2021 4:35 am

Sorry fellas, they drove into the objective circle, that means they got away with it.
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Postby Haganham » Fri Nov 05, 2021 4:51 am

Vassenor wrote:GTA-style heist?

Fast and Furious did it first dammit.

Maybe GTA style refers to the thieves screaming racial epithet and homophobic slurs the entire time.
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Postby -Astoria- » Fri Nov 05, 2021 4:53 am

Haganham wrote:
Vassenor wrote:GTA-style heist?

Fast and Furious did it first dammit.

Maybe GTA style refers to the thieves screaming racial epithet and homophobic slurs the entire time.

I'm pretty sure that's more of a hallmark of the Call of Duty/Halo styles.
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Is that wacky Niko Bellic at it again?
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Postby Saiwania » Fri Nov 05, 2021 6:00 am

I'm inclined to believe that this was an inside job, someone within the company if not the truck driver tipped off criminals to the shipment and was in on it. Unless this was an opportunistic raid where the thieves did not know what the cargo was but were stealing the truck anyways because they know prices are higher than normal for anything that could be being shipped.

I propose that the company raise prices more slightly to pay for better defenses. Move any new GPU batches to Brinks trucks if they have to. I suppose it'll have to be treated like transporting money from federal reserve to banks.
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Postby Vikanias » Fri Nov 05, 2021 6:05 am

Soviet Socialist Kazakhstan wrote:
The Hazar Amisnery wrote:Video games do cause violence


Capitalism causes violence. Abolish capitalism and the violence will someday stop under the glorious, stateless, classless utopia that will follow.


Hey buddy, no one cares about your death to capitalism bullshit it’s about a GTA style heist.
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Postby Allinburg » Fri Nov 05, 2021 6:59 am

it’s both sad and frustrating given how the global chip shortage, despite signs of possible recovery, is still in full effect — and how it makes some people, regardless of their background and their intentions, go and do such despicable and condemnable actions because of how dependent our lives are on nothing more than a bunch of switches
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Postby Autumn Wind » Fri Nov 05, 2021 7:01 am

Saiwania wrote:I'm inclined to believe that this was an inside job, someone within the company if not the truck driver tipped off criminals to the shipment and was in on it. Unless this was an opportunistic raid where the thieves did not know what the cargo was but were stealing the truck anyways because they know prices are higher than normal for anything that could be being shipped.

I propose that the company raise prices more slightly to pay for better defenses. Move any new GPU batches to Brinks trucks if they have to. I suppose it'll have to be treated like transporting money from federal reserve to banks.


I was thinking along the same lines. Unless there has been a rash of semi trailers getting robbed that hasn’t been in the news, it seems awfully suspicious that random criminals would just happen to do it to one truck out of the blue
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Didn't know that Rockstar was planning to make GTA VI an ARG. (/j)
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Postby Allinburg » Fri Nov 05, 2021 7:07 am

Theodores Tomfooleries wrote:Didn't know that Rockstar was planning to make GTA VI an ARG. (/j)

they didn’t even have to create a “metaverse” for this, we are all already players

guess this is the greatest leak this century
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Postby -Astoria- » Fri Nov 05, 2021 7:13 am

Allinburg wrote:
Theodores Tomfooleries wrote:Didn't know that Rockstar was planning to make GTA VI an ARG. (/j)

they didn’t even have to create a “metaverse” for this, we are all already players

guess this is the greatest leak this century

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