Not Actually Structless

When some Gen Alpha kid in 2064 tries to explain Alt+F4 to you like it's revolutionary tech... Listen here, youngster. I've been refreshing browsers since before your parents were born. I've witnessed the birth of keyboard shortcuts, survived the IE6 era, and debugged code on dial-up. Alt+F4 isn't just a command—it's a relic from an age when we had to trick interns into closing their work with it. The ancient keyboard arts weren't taught; they were suffered through .

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.

The career path of a developer who started by hacking game ROMs is like finding out your coworker used to be in a cult. Normal devs learned Python in high school, but the ROM hackers were out there reverse-engineering assembly code at age 12 just to make Mario wear a cowboy hat. Now they're sitting next to you debugging TypeScript with thousand-yard stares, permanently damaged by their formative years of hex editing and wondering why modern languages have so many "unnecessary features" like memory management.

After three months of GPU hunting, six crashed websites, and a second mortgage, this guy finally scored a Radeon RX 9070 XT. And what does he do? Tucks it into bed before even installing it. That's not desperation—that's respect for the silicon gods who finally answered his prayers. Tomorrow he'll sacrifice his entire weekend to driver updates and benchmarks while explaining to his partner why they're eating ramen for the next six months. Worth it.

When you start game development thinking "I'll just make a simple platformer" and suddenly realize you need to become an expert in physics, graphics, audio engineering, UI design, storytelling, optimization, and marketing all at once. The tweet perfectly captures that moment of existential dread when it hits you that making a game isn't just about coding the fun parts - it's about building an entire universe from scratch while your excitement flatlines faster than that game dev heartbeat monitor.

Oh. My. GOD. The AUDACITY of Americans flaunting their Micro Center privileges! 😤 European developers and gamers are over here SUFFERING in a tech desert while Americans casually stroll into Micro Center for 80% OFF GAMING PCs?! The sheer INJUSTICE! Europeans are giving that death stare that says "I had to pay TRIPLE for my RTX card and wait 6 months for shipping." It's like watching someone eat a gourmet meal while you're forced to code on a potato. European devs are literally DYING of tech envy right now. The transatlantic hardware inequality is TOO MUCH TO BEAR! 💔