Blackout Poetry: Developer Edition

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The ultimate recursive procrastination loop! This starterpack brutally exposes the indie game dev lifecycle with surgical precision. Instead of actually coding their game, devs spend countless hours making elaborate docs about worldbuilding, obsessing over engine choices, refreshing wishlists for dopamine hits, and watching YouTube tutorials they'll never implement. The "just write a book guy" with 50+ Google Docs but zero engine experience is painfully accurate. And that "thinking about a name for 2 months" hit way too close to home. Meanwhile, the "backseat dev" who thinks every problem is solved with "just add a shader" or "just add multiplayer" exists in every Discord server known to mankind. The imposter syndrome is real—nobody understands how much work goes into making a game until they've stared blankly at their code at 3AM wondering why their character controller is suddenly launching their protagonist into the stratosphere. And of course, there's always that one dev who buys every asset pack but never ships anything. The irony? Creating this starterpack was itself a form of procrastination. Meta-procrastination at its finest!

The dirty secret of app development: that fancy loading animation? Just Thread.sleep(5000) because the PM insisted on "showing progress." The client thinks we're doing complex calculations while the server's basically taking a nap. Sure, I could optimize the database query, but why bother when I can just shorten the artificial delay and look like a hero at the next sprint review?

The classic developer lifecycle in two frames. Day 1: Bright-eyed SpongeBob sitting up straight, practically vibrating with optimism about that shiny new project. "This time I'll document everything properly!" Day 217: A hollow-eyed husk of a sponge, drowning in production tickets that somehow all require hotfixes yesterday. The transformation from "I'm going to revolutionize this codebase" to "I regret every career choice that led me here" happens faster than you can say "technical debt." Bonus points if you're fixing bugs in code you wrote during your Day 1 enthusiasm.

Content If Tetris has taught me anything, it is that errors pile up and accomplishments disappear

Backend dev passes a note to Frontend dev in class. Frontend opens it to find just "500 Internal Server Error" written inside. Classic backend communication - technically accurate, completely unhelpful. The backend probably thinks they've provided all necessary information while the frontend is left wondering what the hell they're supposed to do with this. Just another day in the web development classroom of life.