Working View Bot

Left side: "My code is self-documenting!!" with a sketch of someone looking distressed at the lowest end of the IQ bell curve. Middle: Actual documentation with detailed comments about monster attack algorithms in a game. Right side: Someone who just writes "// this is bridge" next to a drawing of a bridge, sitting at the other low end of the IQ curve. The perfect balance? The 130+ IQ person with comprehensive, helpful comments that actually explain the why behind complex game logic. The eternal developer struggle: write no comments and claim "self-documenting code," write useless comments stating the obvious, or be the rare specimen who documents the intent and reasoning. Most of us oscillate between all three depending on how much coffee we've had.

The eternal duality of game development vs gaming in one perfect sketch! Game devs look at other games with jealousy and imposter syndrome ("that guy's game is way better than mine") while comparing their own work to a simple cake. Meanwhile, gamers view the exact same games with extreme binary judgments - either something is absolute garbage or it's the second coming of digital Jesus. The irony? Both are looking at the exact same products but through completely different psychological lenses. This is why game developers need therapy and gamers need... well, also therapy.

The same energy that powers our debugging sessions at 3 AM fuels our Steam sale vigilance. Staring at that $70 game with the intensity of a thousand suns, checking price trackers daily, setting up alerts, all to save $55 that we'll immediately spend on four other games we'll never play. The sweet victory of getting that AAA title for the price of a sandwich... only to let it rot in our library alongside 200 other "great deals." Financial optimization at its finest – just don't calculate the hourly rate of your price-watching efforts.

PC gamers and the Epic Games Store have a relationship that can only be described as "transactional at best." You open it once a week to claim your free game like you're collecting coupons at a grocery store, then immediately close it and pretend it doesn't exist. The Epic launcher sits there in your taskbar, wondering if it'll ever experience the warmth of human interaction again. Spoiler alert: it won't. Not until next Thursday when they're giving away another indie game you'll add to your library of 47 unplayed titles. Steam stays open 24/7 like a loyal golden retriever, but Epic? That's the friend you only text when you need something. And honestly, Epic knows what they signed up for.

Frame-independent game physics is the hill many junior devs die on. Multiply all movement by deltaTime or watch your character zoom at light speed on a gaming PC and crawl like a snail on a potato. Skip this step and your boss will find you, and they will kill you. Not the crime mentioned in the meme, but an actual crime against humanity.

The apartment building networking topology we never asked for but definitely deserved. Three gamers locked in an epic battle, visible through their windows at night – one with a headset strategizing, another grinding away at their desk setup, and the third looking like he just rage-quit so hard he needed a bandage. This is what happens when you take "local area network" too literally. The ping must be amazing though – just open your window and shout "LAG!" instead of typing it. Next-level physical topology that even Cisco didn't think to document.