GTA style heisting over a truck full of GPUs.

[Valentine Z]

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.

[Archinstinct]

God damn it.

[-Astoria-]

Large oof.

[Immortan Khan]

Real life imitating art.

[The Hazar Amisnery]

Video games do cause violence

[Soviet Socialist Kazakhstan]

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.

[Rusozak]

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.

[Saradena]

I can feel my skin crawl on the possible price mark-up for these GPUs if they ever get re-sold.
If there's a kind of people who deserves to be bullied its thieves who are also scalpers.

[Galactic Transylvania]

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.

Holy pipedreams batman!

[Wapistan]

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

[-Astoria-]

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
• Reward: $20,000

[Vassenor]

GTA-style heist?

Fast and Furious did it first dammit.

[Kubra]

Sorry fellas, they drove into the objective circle, that means they got away with it.

[Haganham]

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.

[-Astoria-]

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.

[The Holy Therns]

Is that wacky Niko Bellic at it again?

[Saiwania]

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.

[Vikanias]

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.

[Allinburg]

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

[Autumn Wind]

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

[Theodores Tomfooleries]

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

[Allinburg]

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

[-Astoria-]

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

Hot take: we are the main characters, and everyone else are NPCs.

[Page]

Sounds very lucrative but also very boring.

[Heloin]

Is that wacky Niko Bellic at it again?

Afterwards the criminals were seen bowling with their cousins.