Optimization Memes

Technically Speaking, It's Really Bad

1 day ago 85.7K views 0 shares

When the Unreal Engine 5 hype train crashes into reality! The meme perfectly captures that awkward moment when everyone pressures you to admit the obvious - Borderlands 4 is just another poorly optimized UE5 game that makes your GPU weep. It's like when your product manager asks "is the sprint on track?" and you have to choose between the comfortable lie or the career-limiting truth. The bottom panel showing the riot that ensues is basically what happens in the Steam reviews section when a AAA studio ships a game that requires NASA hardware to run at 30 FPS. Frame drops are the new boss battle!

Who Would Have Guessed?

Gamedev Hardware Programming Debugging Testing

1 day ago 122.0K views 0 shares

When a game dev says "manage your expectations" right before launch and then the reviews show 41.18% mostly negative ratings... *sips tea aggressively* It's the classic software development cycle: promise the moon, deliver a rock, then act surprised when users notice the difference. The only thing optimized about this game was the warning that it wouldn't be optimized. Next time just skip the PR talk and put "It's broken, but we have shareholders to please" on the box. At least that would get points for honesty.

The Corporate GPU Illusion

Gamedev Hardware Unity Programming

1 day ago 142.2K views 1 shares

When your boss asks why the game you're developing needs a $3000 graphics card: "For testing purposes, I swear!" The corporate world just doesn't understand that those extra 500 particle effects and ray-traced reflections are absolutely critical to the user experience. Sure, the gameplay is identical, but can you really put a price on seeing your character's reflection in a puddle at 144fps? Meanwhile, every game dev knows the real difference between these images is about 30 extra hours of crunch time and a graphics engine that will bring even NASA computers to their knees. But hey, those neon effects aren't going to render themselves!

The Dictator's Guide To Arrays

Algorithms Math Programming

5 days ago 120.6K views 0 shares

Ah, the infamous "StalinSort" – where elements don't get rearranged, they get purged . This "O(n) algorithm" is technically correct in the most horrifying way possible. Sure, you'll end up with a sorted list... mostly because you've executed all the elements that dared to be out of order. It's the same energy as fixing bugs by deleting the code that contains them. Congratulations, you've optimized your way to a solution that would make computer science professors wake up in cold sweats. Efficiency through elimination – the algorithm works because the witnesses don't.

So Far Every Unreal Engine 5 Game Has Been Running Like

Gamedev Hardware Unity Programming

6 days ago 103.4K views 1 shares

So Far Every Unreal Engine 5 Game Has Been Running Like

Look at that high-end Bugatti with no wheels—just like those fancy Unreal Engine 5 games that look incredible in trailers but run at 12 FPS on actual hardware. Sure, the graphics are mind-blowing, but what good is a sports car (or game engine) when it can't actually move? Six months after launch: "We're optimizing the experience with our latest 50GB patch." Meanwhile your GPU is sweating harder than a junior dev during a code review.

Bloat Is Goat

Programming Webdev Microsoft Javascript Frontend

10 days ago 157.5K views 0 shares

The evolution of programming efficiency is hilariously tragic. In 1975, Chad programmers hand-optimized machine code to squeeze games into kilobytes. By 2000, we'd accepted some bloat for productivity with high-level languages. Fast forward to 2025, and we've got "programmers" creating calculator apps that consume 1GB of RAM because they've stuffed 69 frameworks into an Electron wrapper. Meanwhile, they're busy impressing AI girlfriends while Microsoft casually commits open-source theft. We went from calculating trajectories to the moon on 4KB of RAM to needing 16GB just to run VS Code without crashing. Progress™

C Is Faster If You Just Ask It Nicely To Run Python

C++ Programming Python

14 days ago 182.9K views 0 shares

C Is Faster If You Just Ask It Nicely To Run Python

The pinnacle of language optimization right here. When told C is faster, this Python dev just wrote C code that... calls Python. It's like buying a Ferrari just to tow your bicycle to the race. The system call is literally saying "Hey C, can you ask Python to print Hello World for me?" This is what happens when you take "use the right tool for the job" and interpret it as "use all tools simultaneously for every job."

Code So Weird, It Deserves Its Own Warning Label

Programming Debugging Testing

19 days ago 122.0K views 0 shares

Code So Weird, It Deserves Its Own Warning Label

Ah yes, the digital equivalent of finding ancient hieroglyphics. Nothing says "job security" like writing code so complex that even your future self will be baffled. That counter isn't tracking optimization attempts—it's tracking the collective existential crises of every developer who touched this monstrosity. The best part? Somewhere out there is a developer staring at this comment, incrementing the counter to 68, and wondering if therapy is covered by their health plan.

Bow Down To The Increment Master

C++ Programming

20 days ago 135.2K views 0 shares

The subtle flex of increment operators. Peasants use i=i+2 like they're still writing BASIC on a Commodore 64. Meanwhile, the distinguished gentleman employs ++i++ , casually breaking compiler rules because he's too important for standards. It's the programming equivalent of drinking scotch neat while everyone else has juice boxes.

But You Tried Something

Debugging Algorithms Programming Testing

21 days ago 118.6K views 0 shares

Ah, the noble art of optimizing garbage code! It's like meticulously rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic. You've spent hours shaving milliseconds off your algorithm that fundamentally doesn't work. "Look at these beautiful O(log n) operations!" you proudly declare while your function returns completely incorrect results. At least when your manager asks why nothing works, you can confidently say, "But it fails really efficiently now!"

Useless Loop: Four Hours Of My Life Gone Forever

Python Algorithms Programming Debugging

25 days ago 170.5K views 0 shares

Useless Loop: Four Hours Of My Life Gone Forever

Ah, the classic "let me wait for this to finish" trap. The code imports the time module, sets runtime to 14400 (exactly 4 hours in seconds), then runs a loop that sleeps for 1 second... 14,400 times. The kicker? This could've been done with a single time.sleep(14400) . But no, some sadistic soul decided to make the computer wake up 14,400 separate times just to check if we're done yet. We've all been there - watching a progress bar, waiting for a build, or running some unnecessary loop because "that's how the senior dev did it." Four hours later, you're questioning your career choices and wondering if becoming a goat farmer might've been the better path.

I Blame Microservices

Programming Webdev Algorithms Frontend Backend

27 days ago 137.4K views 0 shares

THE AUDACITY! Watching an exam website take FOUR WHOLE MINUTES to grade a simple multiple choice test while your programmer brain is screaming that this should take NANOSECONDS! It's like watching paint dry while holding a blow dryer! Those 40 clock cycles could have graded the test, calculated your entire academic future, AND solved world hunger with processing power to spare! Meanwhile, the server is probably just playing Solitaire between each question it grades. The betrayal! The inefficiency! The sheer WASTE of precious milliseconds that you'll never get back! 💀

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