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My Heart, It Hurts

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The AUDACITY of game development to trick us like this! First panel: pure innocence, naive optimism, and the sweet delusion that making games will be FUN. Second panel: still smiling, still hopeful, still COMPLETELY UNAWARE of the coding nightmare lurking ahead. Third panel: REALITY STRIKES with the force of a thousand merge conflicts! The soul-crushing despair when you realize your beautiful game idea has morphed into a bug-infested hellscape of spaghetti code and physics engines that defy actual physics! What started as "I'll make the next Minecraft" ends with you sobbing into your keyboard at 3 AM because your character keeps falling through the floor for NO LOGICAL REASON WHATSOEVER! Game development: where dreams go to die and coffee consumption reaches clinical concern levels.

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