Thus She Spoke

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Thus She Spoke

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The pool senpai has dropped the most cursed wisdom known to the dev world. Game development being "just more dynamic frontend engineering" is like saying brain surgery is just advanced haircutting because you work on the head. Sure, both involve rendering pixels on screens, but one's dealing with React state management while the other's optimizing physics engines, managing memory like their life depends on it, and crying over shader compilation errors at 3 AM. Frontend devs push buttons and make divs look pretty. Game devs push polygons and make GPUs scream. Totally the same thing, right? The sheer audacity of this statement is what makes it beautiful. It's technically wrong in every way that matters, yet somehow you can see the twisted logic if you squint hard enough.

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