The Unstoppable Growth Of Call Of Duty

Ah, the classic "array starts at 0" bug manifesting in the wild. Some poor dev clearly implemented the ranking system with proper zero-indexing, but forgot that humans count from 1. Now we've got this beautiful disaster where 0th place pays more than 1st place, and the gold medal goes to... whatever the hell "0th" is. The best part? The prize money actually makes sense if you shift everything up one position. This is what happens when you let backend engineers design UI without supervision. Ten bucks says there's a comment in the code that reads "TODO: fix this later" from 2019.

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.

Oh. My. GOD. The absolute TRAGEDY of modern game development! 😭 Remember when pre-ordering meant getting a COMPLETE game that actually WORKED on launch day? Now we're just paying full price for the privilege of being unpaid beta testers for a half-baked, bug-infested nightmare that will eventually be fixed in patch version 37.2.5... maybe. We've gone from happy, excited gamers to hollow shells of despair, clinging to the fading memory of what gaming used to be. It's like watching your childhood dreams get trampled by a herd of profit-hungry executives in Gucci loafers!

Ah, the modern gaming "enthusiast" in their natural habitat. This specimen has evolved to simultaneously complain about lack of innovation while refusing to play anything that doesn't match their exact preferences. The "$6000 battle pass purchasing machine" hits way too close to home. Dropping a small fortune on hardware just to play the same recycled games and then complaining about it? Chef's kiss of irony. My favorite part is how "thinking" and "originality" are listed under "SLOP" while "giving companies money" is "BASED." Nothing says discerning consumer like hating creativity while worshipping corporate wallets. The gaming industry's perfect customer doesn't exi—oh wait, there they are, threatening self-harm if exposed to a new experience. Meanwhile, their unbroken 4-year subscription to someone playing games for them continues...

The absolute state of game development priorities. Summoning a demon from the fiery depths of hell? Just a few lines of code, ship it! Adding a simple scarf texture? Sorry, that would require rewriting the entire engine and possibly sacrificing a junior developer to the QA gods. It's like how we can build entire virtual worlds with complex physics simulations, but somehow adding a dark mode to the UI makes the entire codebase collapse like a house of cards. The real dark magic is figuring out which features will inexplicably break everything.

The classic "I'm going to be productive today" delusion. First panel: Two buttons - "PLAYING GAMES" or "CODING". Second panel: "Man what an easy choice" - clearly coding, right? Third panel: Three buttons appear - "YOUTUBE", "PLAYING GAMES", "CODING" - and suddenly our finger gravitates to YouTube like it's magnetically charged. The productivity paradox in its natural habitat. Just one quick video before starting that project... 5 hours later...