Copy paste Memes

Someone really said "I could use a loop" and then proceeded to manually hardcode what appears to be quaternion rotation calculations for every possible case. Each line is a beautiful handcrafted snowflake of copy-pasted arithmetic operations with slightly different array indices. This is what happens when you learn programming from a stenographer. The best part? There's probably a single matrix multiplication library function that could replace this entire screen of madness. But no, someone decided to type out hundreds of lines of p.a.c[i] * p.a.c[j] combinations like they were getting paid by the character. The code review must have been legendary. This is peak "it works, don't touch it" territory. Nobody's refactoring this beast because nobody wants to be the one who breaks the CAE software that's been running in production for 15 years.

We all paste with the confidence of someone who's never accidentally hit CTRL+C twice in a row and lost their precious clipboard content forever. Meanwhile, CTRL+V gets all the glory while we treat CTRL+C like it's made of glass and might shatter at any moment. The paranoia is real: you copy something important, then spend the next 30 seconds NOT touching your keyboard because one accidental keystroke could send your clipboard to the void. But paste? Spam that sucker 47 times just to be sure. Trust is earned, not given.

Lawyers spend years in law school. Doctors grind through med school and residency. Programmers? Just vibing with Google and Stack Overflow until the compiler stops screaming. No formal education required when you've got a search bar and the audacity to copy-paste code you don't fully understand. The best part is it actually works most of the time, which really says something about our profession. We're basically professional Googlers with imposter syndrome, but hey, if it compiles and passes the tests, ship it.