Ray Tracing Will Be The End!

OH. MY. GOD. Someone actually wrote a function to check if a number is even by hard-coding EVERY. SINGLE. CASE. 💀 The sheer AUDACITY of creating an "IsEven" function that could be solved with a simple "return number % 2 == 0" but instead choosing violence and writing 500 if-statements! The poor soul reviewing this code is having an existential crisis right there on stream! This is the kind of "optimization" that gets you both fired AND hired at Blizzard in the same day. Pure chaotic evil genius!

Remember when you could buy a graphics card without taking out a second mortgage? The "expectation" shows a humble GT440 from 9 years ago - probably cost you a reasonable $100 and could run Minecraft without setting your desk on fire. Fast forward to "reality" and we've got a monstrous GTX 1080Ti that costs more than some used cars and requires its own nuclear power plant. The best part? Both cards are equally impossible to find in stock. The crypto miners got the new ones, and your weird cousin who "builds gaming PCs" hoarded all the old ones.

That "Capitalism" tag on Call of Duty is hitting harder than a critical exception in production code. Nothing says "authentic gaming experience" like paying $69.99 for the privilege of being reminded that you're participating in the very system that designed the microtransaction hellscape you're about to enter. It's like when your code comments itself with // This is going to hurt later and you ship it anyway.

Starting a new coding project is like the top panel—stoic, methodical, calm. "I'll follow best practices. I'll document everything." Two hours later, you're in the bottom panel—screaming at your monitor because your perfectly reasonable code is throwing 47 errors and the Stack Overflow answer from 2011 just made things worse. The transformation from "I'm a professional engineer" to "WHY WON'T YOU COMPILE, YOU STUPID MACHINE?!" happens faster than your IDE can autocomplete.

The Java logo is just a cup of coffee until you've spent 16 hours debugging a NullPointerException. Then it becomes what it truly is—a bucket of lava that burns your entire codebase to the ground. Minecraft players nodding in agreement right now.

The eternal struggle of every game developer who still lives with their parents. That crushing moment when Mom walks in, sees you clicking away at Unity or Unreal Engine, and assumes you're just wasting time on Fortnite again. The sad cat face perfectly captures that mix of indignation and despair when your career aspirations are dismissed as "playing games." Sure, I'm staring at a screen for 12 hours straight, but I'm creating worlds, not just living in them! Pro tip: Next time, just tell Mom you're "optimizing recursive algorithms for interactive entertainment systems." She'll either be impressed or confused enough to leave you alone.