Even The Hulk Can't Handle Gaming Heartbreak

Ah yes, the window—nature's original 60Hz display. While everyone's dropping thousands on curved ultra-wide monitors with ridiculous refresh rates, this guy found the ultimate hack: staring at the real world while coding. The snow provides excellent contrast, and the frame rate is literally infinite. No driver updates required, though it does come with its own weather-based brightness settings that you can't control. Bonus feature: occasional NPC movements when neighbors do something weird.

The gaming industry in a nutshell: Cyberpunk 2077, a game from 2020 with futuristic graphics that would make your bank account cry, running at a buttery 100 FPS with an RTX 5090 (a GPU that probably costs more than your car). Meanwhile, Borderlands 4, allegedly coming out in 2025, will somehow manage to look like it was rendered on a toaster from 2019 and still make your high-end rig struggle to hit 45 FPS. Game optimization is clearly an art form that some developers treat like abstract expressionism – nobody knows what the hell is going on, but we're all supposed to nod and pretend it makes sense.

THE AUDACITY of young me declaring "I don't need math, I'll just make video games!" only to later discover that game development is LITERALLY a mathematical hellscape! 😭 Fast forward to the soul-crushing reality where Unity, OpenGL, C++, and every other game dev tool are CACKLING at your mathematical ignorance. They're all just sitting there like "Oh honey, you thought you could escape VECTORS and MATRICES? That's adorable!" Game physics? MATH. Graphics rendering? MATH. Character movement? MATH. It's math all the way down, you poor, delusional child!

Game engines: either drowning in endless menus or making you frantically jump through hoops to accomplish basic tasks. The comic nails it by sorting them into just two categories - "menus" (looking at you, Unity) or "parkour" (hello, Unreal). Anyone who's tried to find that one specific setting buried in Unity's seventeen nested dropdown menus knows the pain. Meanwhile, Unreal devs are performing mental gymnastics just to implement a simple "Hello World" blueprint. And poor Unity, getting called out for "jumping around a lot" yet still being classified as "menus" - the ultimate burn for an engine trying so hard to be developer-friendly. It's like being told you dance like a spreadsheet.

The EXISTENTIAL CRISIS of staring at two buttons labeled "Ray Tracing" and "Path Tracing" and having ABSOLUTELY NO CLUE what unholy difference exists between them! 💦 Meanwhile, your GPU is SCREAMING in the background as you toggle between settings that might as well be labeled "Make Computer Hot" and "Make Computer SLIGHTLY HOTTER." The audacity of game developers to assume we know what these rendering techniques do beyond "pretty graphics go brrr" is just... *chef's kiss* MAGNIFICENT.

The absolute AUDACITY of this developer printing an entire chess board for EACH POSSIBLE MOVE! 😱 Instead of creating a simple reusable function, this maniac is hard-coding 2.6 MILLION lines to handle every chess position! It's the programming equivalent of writing out every word in the dictionary instead of just looking it up! The poor soul who has to review this code will need therapy AND a new keyboard after smashing the current one into oblivion. Chess programming doesn't have to be your villain origin story, people!