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The Great GPU Delusion

The Great GPU Delusion
Developers frantically questioning if their ancient hardware can handle modern games, only to be told it's not their fault—it's just poorly optimized ray tracing. Classic deflection technique. Your 2015 GPU isn't obsolete; the technology demanding 128GB VRAM for a single shadow is clearly the problem. Keep telling yourself that while NVIDIA releases another $2000 card that's "absolutely necessary" for viewing reflections in puddles.

The Three Stages Of Bug Acceptance

The Three Stages Of Bug Acceptance
The evolution of every senior developer's relationship with bugs: First, you're naive. "I'll fix this bug right away!" you declare with the enthusiasm of someone who still believes in clean code. Then comes the bargaining phase. "It's not a bug if I can't reproduce it. Must be user error." *closes ticket* Finally, enlightenment: "That weird behavior when you click exactly 7 times while holding Shift? Yeah, that's a 'feature' we totally planned. Find it in the documentation we'll write someday." Ten years in and I've mastered all three stages before my morning coffee.

Denial: The First Stage Of Debugging

Denial: The First Stage Of Debugging
The universal programmer's defense mechanism in its natural habitat. First comes the suggestion that code might be the problem, followed immediately by the instinctive denial that echoes through cubicles worldwide. The irony? It's always a software issue... right after you've spent hours swearing it couldn't possibly be. That moment of realization usually hits around commit #47 when you discover that semicolon you deleted "because it looked funny."