Death By Unreal Engine 5

The eternal GPU benchmarking disappointment. You spend hours researching the perfect graphics card, finding benchmarks showing it'll run Doom (1993) at 500 FPS. Then reality hits when all you actually play are Valorant and CS2 - games that would run on a calculator powered by a potato. That $1200 RTX card is now just an expensive space heater rendering stick figures at competitive settings.

Remember when 8GB VRAM was god-tier? Now it's the bare minimum for running those bloated AI models and rendering engines. $400 for entry-level specs that would've been flagship material a decade ago is the new normal. The hardware inflation is so bad that we're genuinely excited about mediocrity. Next we'll be celebrating when our IDE opens in under a minute.

The gaming backlog paradox strikes again! PC gamers threatening violence over waiting for GTA 6 while simultaneously ignoring their digital hoarding problem is peak irony. We're all that guy with 1000+ unplayed Steam games collected during sales we "couldn't pass up," yet somehow convinced ourselves that this game is the emergency. The cognitive dissonance of having enough untouched content to last several lifetimes while acting like waiting for another AAA title is literal torture. Meanwhile, our Steam libraries silently judge us harder than any hostage-taker ever could.

Nothing says "I've made it in life" quite like dropping $3,000 on a liquid-cooled gaming rig with RGB everything just to play Stardew Valley at 500 FPS. It's the computing equivalent of buying a Ferrari to pick up groceries—completely unnecessary but oh-so-satisfying. The true galaxy brain move is watching your 3090 Ti sit at 2% utilization while you sink 200 hours into a game that could run on a scientific calculator.

The code is a perfect example of why game developers shouldn't be allowed near RNGs unsupervised! 😂 What we're looking at is a glorious mess of Python where someone created two nearly identical functions ( count_greater_than_11 and count_greater_than_5 ) that generate random numbers between 1-20 and increment a counter when the number exceeds a threshold. But wait! The function names and comments don't even match - one says "greater than 11" in the comment but checks for > 10 in the code, while the other claims to check for > 5 but actually checks for > 4! And then there's that lonely is_divisible_by_7 function at the bottom, just hanging out with no apparent connection to anything else. It's like someone started implementing their own version of RNG bias with specific magic numbers, got bored halfway through, and shipped it anyway. This is probably why that boss battle feels unfairly difficult every 7th attempt...

BEHOLD! The sacred hierarchy of game development despair! 🎮 Indie devs are literally surviving on POCKET LINT and DREAMS, crafting pixel masterpieces between coffee shop shifts while their bank account screams in agony! Meanwhile, AA studios are just seven random Europeans with a Reddit post and "ugly" assets, desperately clinging to office supply companies for validation. And then there's AAA studios—THE ABSOLUTE MONARCHY OF GAMING—with budgets equivalent to ENTIRE COUNTRIES, Jeff Bezos on speed dial, and development timelines that could be shortened dramatically if you happen to have yakuza connections! They're targeting the mythical "median voter" while indie devs are desperately hoping that "Busted Twunks" who reminisce about Zelda will throw money at their passion project. The gaming industry isn't a spectrum—it's a TRAGIC COMEDY in three acts where the budget difference between "whatever's in the bank account" and "the GDP of South America" determines whether your graphics are pixel art masterpieces or motion-blurred abominations!