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She Wants Everything, Bruh
Gamedev
9 days ago 259.2K views 0 shares
She Wants Everything, Bruh
You know you've got your priorities straight when your Steam library is worth more than your car. We're talking hundreds of games accumulated over years of sales, bundles, and "I'll definitely play this someday" purchases. Now she wants half of those 847 games you've never even installed? The audacity. Real talk though: your Steam library is probably the most honest representation of your life choices. Every unplayed indie game, every AAA title bought at full price that you rage-quit after 20 minutes, every humble bundle you bought for ONE game but got 12 others. That's not just a collection—that's a digital museum of your optimism about having free time. The lawyer's gonna have a field day trying to value your account with 600 hours in Factorio and 2 minutes in that fitness game you bought during the pandemic.

Yes, Of Course
Agile Programming
11 days ago 278.0K views 0 shares
Yes, Of Course
Project manager: "Are you playing your backlog?" Developer, sweating profusely while hiding seventeen Steam tabs: "YES, absolutely! I'm VERY dedicated to clearing that backlog!" Plot twist: The backlog in question is not Jira tickets but the 247 unplayed games sitting in their Steam library collecting digital dust. Yesterday's "research" budget went straight to the Summer Sale, and now they're strategically planning which indie roguelike to ignore next while pretending to work on sprint goals. The duality of developer existence—one backlog brings shame and standups, the other brings joy and crippling choice paralysis. Both remain eternally unfinished.

The Real Wish
Agile Programming
1 month ago 213.2K views 0 shares
The Real Wish
You know your career has peaked when a magical genie offers you wishes and your first instinct is to check your ticket backlog. The programmer logs into Jira and discovers zero issues—a miracle so statistically improbable it makes winning the lottery look like a Tuesday. But here's the kicker: even with a genie granting impossible wishes, the programmer's second wish isn't infinite knowledge, world peace, or even unlimited coffee. Nope. He wants to become a duck farmer. Because at some point, you realize that dealing with actual ducks is probably less chaotic than dealing with sprint planning, merge conflicts, and stakeholders who want "just one small change" on Friday afternoon. The genie's seen some stuff, but even he knows: every developer secretly dreams of escaping to a simpler life where the only bugs are the ones eating your crops.

Name The Game
Gamedev
1 month ago 234.1K views 0 shares
Name The Game
Steam sales are basically a psychological warfare experiment at this point. That game you've been eyeing for months? 50% off! What a steal! Time to finally buy it, right? Wrong. Even with half the price slashed, you're still dropping $30+ on a game you'll probably play for 20 minutes before returning to the same three games you've been playing for the last five years. The discount makes you feel like you're saving money while simultaneously spending money you weren't planning to spend. It's the digital equivalent of buying something you don't need just because it's on sale. Capitalism wins again, and your backlog grows by another entry that'll sit there collecting digital dust next to the other 347 unplayed games.

How Many Unplayed Games Do You Guys Have?
Programming
2 months ago 204.2K views 0 shares
How Many Unplayed Games Do You Guys Have?
Steam Winter Sale hits different when you're a developer. You already spend 12 hours a day staring at code, debugging someone else's spaghetti, and arguing with CI/CD pipelines. The last thing you want to do is boot up a game that requires... more thinking. So instead, you buy 47 games at 80% off because "it's a good deal" and "I'll definitely play this when I have time." Spoiler: you won't. That backlog just keeps growing while you convince yourself that buying more games is somehow different from hoarding. It's not. The real game is watching your library percentage drop from 15% to 4% played and pretending that's fine. That's the endgame content right there.

It's That Time Of Year
Gamedev
2 months ago 191.3K views 0 shares
It's That Time Of Year
Steam sales hit different when you're a developer with a backlog of 847 unplayed games. Your rational brain knows you have enough games to last until retirement, but Steam's showing you a 90% discount on some indie roguelike you'll definitely "play later." The logic doesn't matter anymore—it's not about playing games, it's about owning them. Your library becomes a digital hoard, a monument to good deals and poor impulse control. Every seasonal sale is just another intervention that nobody shows up to because they're all too busy buying games they won't play either.

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Lol, Me As A Developer
Programming Agile Debugging
2 months ago 160.7K views 1 shares
Lol, Me As A Developer
Companies love saying they want "honest developers" during interviews, but the second you admit there's no animation for swimming in production because nobody had time to implement it, suddenly you're not a "team player." The brutal honesty of telling stakeholders that features literally don't exist yet? That's career suicide dressed up as transparency. You'll just stand there staring at the water, knowing full well you can't dive in because the sprint ended two weeks ago and swimming got pushed to the backlog. Honesty in development means admitting half the features are held together with duct tape and prayers, but HR didn't mention that in the job posting.

Once You Complete Ahead Of Time
Agile Programming
2 months ago 296.8K views 0 shares
Once You Complete Ahead Of Time
You know that brief, beautiful moment when you actually finish your sprint tasks early and think you might get some breathing room? Yeah, that's cute. The moment a project manager catches wind that you're "free," they materialize like a genie from a lamp with a whole backlog of "quick wins" and "small tweaks" that definitely won't take 5 minutes despite what they claim. The smirk says it all—it's that knowing look of someone who's about to ruin your peaceful afternoon with three new tickets, a "minor" refactor, and maybe helping debug Steve's environment issues. Pro tip: never, EVER announce you're done early in standup. Just quietly work on that side project or refactor some code. Your future self will thank you.

Priority Is Subjective
Programming Rust Agile Debugging Testing
4 months ago 353.7K views 0 shares
Priority Is Subjective
Nothing quite like standing on the beach of responsibility while a tsunami of work priorities crashes down on you. Meanwhile, you're just there thinking, "But what if we rewrote everything in Rust though?" Every developer knows that critical bugs, customer requests, and pending tests are important... but have you considered the dopamine rush of starting a completely unnecessary rewrite in a trendy language? Sure, the codebase works fine now, but imagine how elegant it could be! The backlog may be crushing you, but that rewrite will definitely solve all your problems. Trust me, I've abandoned this exact project six times already.

Must Get That Deal
Gamedev Unity
5 months ago 306.9K views 0 shares
Must Get That Deal
Oh. My. God. The AUDACITY of this meme attacking my entire Steam library! 💀 The difference between normies and us gamers is ASTRONOMICAL. They wait for sales like peasants, while we HEROICALLY buy games at full price only to let them marinate in our libraries like fine digital wine for a YEAR before even installing them. My 347 unplayed games aren't a problem, they're an INVESTMENT in my future happiness! And yes, I WILL play Skyrim again instead of any of them, thank you very much!

Do Not Redeem!!!
Gamedev
5 months ago 292.5K views 0 shares
Do Not Redeem!!!
The eternal struggle of the modern gamer - collecting free games you'll never play. Epic Games Store and Steam sales have turned us all into digital hoarders with 500+ unplayed titles. "I'll definitely play this someday" is the biggest lie in gaming, right up there with "one more turn" in Civilization. Your backlog isn't a library; it's a monument to your optimism about free time you'll never actually have.

Stay Out Of My Territory
Frontend Webdev Agile React Programming
5 months ago 487.5K views 2 shares
Stay Out Of My Territory
The eternal territorial battle of the codebase has claimed another victim! Some ambitious "full-stack" dev thought they could just waltz in and grab a juicy frontend feature from the backlog without consulting the frontend tribe first. Classic rookie mistake. Meanwhile, the senior frontend dev—guardian of the CSS sacred lands and protector of the React realm—isn't having any of it. They've already passive-aggressively reassigned that JIRA ticket faster than you can say "npm install". The software manager watches in horror as another sprint planning devolves into a Breaking Bad-style turf war. Spoiler alert: nobody touches the frontend code without paying the React tax first!