GTA 7 Will Send 1 Billion People To Early Retirement

When your Discord account gets "hacked" and suddenly starts sending very legitimate messages. The classic social engineering tactic where someone impersonates a trusted figure (in this case Nintendo legend Shigeru Miyamoto) to manipulate you into financial decisions. Sure, I always take my purchasing advice from chat messages that contradict themselves within seconds. "Stop looking at sales... actually, pay full price!" Brilliant strategy there, totally-real-Miyamoto. Next they'll be asking for my credit card details to verify my Nintendo Loyalty Program membership.

Remember when video games were just... fun? Before you became a programmer and couldn't help but see the collision detection glitches, frame rate issues, and spaghetti code lurking beneath the surface? Now you're sitting there calculating the physics equations they used for that jump animation, mentally optimizing their render pipeline, and thinking "that NPC pathfinding algorithm must be A* with a custom heuristic." The curse of knowledge strikes again. You've peeked behind the curtain, and now you can't unsee the matrix. Gaming will never be the same, but hey—at least you can impress absolutely nobody by explaining why that texture is flickering.

When you're showing off your 3D modeling skills to non-technical friends and they can't tell the difference between a basic capsule primitive and your meticulously crafted character with proper topology, UV mapping, and rigging. That moment when you've spent 8 hours tweaking vertices and they're like "cool bean shape with eyes."

The eternal dilemma of indie game developers - choosing between making progress on your passion project or pretending to have a normal life. That finger is hovering over the red button with the conviction of someone who's already canceled three social events this month. The weekend isn't for rest - it's for debugging that physics engine you've been wrestling with since February!

Nothing strikes fear into a developer's soul quite like inheriting a "vibe-coded" codebase. You know the type—written by someone who was "feeling it" at 2AM, fueled by energy drinks and hubris. No comments, variable names like magicNumber42 and iKnowWhatImDoing , and functions that would make Cthulhu weep. Just like Arthas from Warcraft deciding an entire city needed cleansing, sometimes the only rational response to legacy code is total annihilation. Rewrite from scratch? Absolutely justified. That's not technical debt—it's a technical crime scene.

Remember when game devs hand-crafted assembly code to squeeze every cycle out of the PS2? Now they just throw more lights at the problem and hope DLSS will save them. Modern devs staring at their RTX 5090 wondering why their unoptimized mess runs like a slideshow. "But I added ray-tracing!" Yeah, and your grass simulation is calculating the aerodynamics of each individual blade. Maybe learn to write a shader that doesn't require NASA's computing budget.