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Me Making A Custom Game Engine Instead Of Just Working On My Game

Me Making A Custom Game Engine Instead Of Just Working On My Game
The eternal battle between pragmatism and the programmer's ego. When someone says "just use an existing engine," what they're really saying is "please don't spend the next 18 months building a half-broken physics system when Unity exists." But here we are, drawing our own circle from scratch because clearly no one in history has ever implemented collision detection correctly. It's like deciding to forge your own kitchen knife when you just wanted to make a sandwich. "But MY knife will have a slightly different handle grip!" Cool story. Meanwhile your game idea is collecting dust, and you're debugging quaternion math at 3AM.

It's An Open Secret

It's An Open Secret
The AUDACITY of Project Managers thinking developers are just sandbagging timelines! 💅 Honey, I could absolutely crush this feature in 4 days flat if you'd stop scheduling 17 "quick sync" meetings and asking for "just one tiny change" every 3 hours! The look on this man's face is LITERALLY me trying not to scream "I TOLD YOU SO" when the PM suggests we could "fast track" if we "really pushed ourselves." Darling, my estimates already assume I'm mainlining caffeine and skipping bathroom breaks!

The Result Of Building An App On A Startup Budget

The Result Of Building An App On A Startup Budget
BEHOLD! The magnificent half-finished masterpiece of budget constraints! 💸 When clients demand champagne features on a tap water budget, you get this GLORIOUS abomination - half photorealistic horse, half stick figure nightmare! The front end gets all the polish while the backend is just... whatever lines we could draw before the money ran out. It's the digital equivalent of putting a Ferrari engine in a cardboard box with wheels drawn on it. THIS is what happens when someone says "can't you just make it work for less?" - your beautiful code turns into a fever dream sketch that somehow still functions. Pure. Budget. Magic. ✨

Why Did We Talk In Call

Why Did We Talk In Call
Ah, the classic client move that makes you question your entire career choices. You spend 120 precious minutes of your life meticulously explaining every technical detail, answering questions, and providing clarifications on the project specs. Your throat is dry. Your soul is weary. And then comes the royal decree: "Just send all that in an email." It's the corporate equivalent of "Let me speak to your manager" after the manager has already spoken to you. The aristocratic expression in the image perfectly captures that feeling of aristocratic entitlement that makes you want to time-travel back to before you accepted the meeting invite.

The Side Project Paradox

The Side Project Paradox
The eternal side project dilemma: two buttons labeled "spend days debugging broken code" or "trash it all and restart from scratch." And there you are, sweating profusely, halfway through the project, calculating if those 47 Stack Overflow solutions you've duct-taped together are worth salvaging. The real genius of side projects isn't finishing them—it's the impressive collection of half-completed Git repositories you'll accumulate. Your GitHub is basically a digital graveyard of "I'll get back to this someday" promises.

The Eternal Project Graveyard

The Eternal Project Graveyard
THE ABSOLUTE TRAGEDY of developer life! 💀 Your code graveyard is SCREAMING with abandoned projects while your brain, that TREACHEROUS VILLAIN, convinces you that starting a shiny new project is the answer to all life's problems! Meanwhile, your GitHub is a CEMETERY of half-implemented features and READMEs that end mid-sentence. But sure, honey, THIS time you'll definitely finish that revolutionary app that combines blockchain, AI, and a toaster API. SUUUURE YOU WILL.

Ship Now Fix Later

Ship Now Fix Later
The eternal gap between developer ambition and project reality. You start with grand visions of clean architecture, beautiful abstractions, and perfectly modular code. Then the deadline hits, requirements change for the 17th time, and suddenly you're duct-taping spaghetti code together while muttering "we'll refactor later" for the fifth consecutive sprint. The luxury mansion represents that beautiful microservice architecture with 100% test coverage you designed in your head. The rusty shantytown is the actual monolith you've been maintaining since 2013 that somehow still runs the entire company despite being held together by Stack Overflow answers and prayers.

The Project Graveyard Phenomenon

The Project Graveyard Phenomenon
Ah, the project graveyard – where dreams go to hibernate indefinitely. That folder structure on the right isn't just storage, it's a memorial to our collective optimism. We all start with "JUST MAKE IT EXIST FIRST" – that beautiful cyan circle of possibility – convinced this time we'll finish what we started. Then reality kicks in. That 3D spaceship model? That game engine experiment? That revolutionary app idea? All neatly tucked away in folders, waiting for the mythical "when I have time" that never arrives. The true skill isn't starting projects – it's finishing one before getting seduced by the next shiny idea. Meanwhile, our hard drives become digital museums of what-could-have-been.

The Suez Canal Of Software Development

The Suez Canal Of Software Development
The infamous Suez Canal blockage meets software development! Programmers are the aircraft carrier trying to make actual progress, while project managers are the Ever Given ship blocking the entire canal with bureaucracy. Nothing kills productivity quite like the unholy trinity of timeline reviews, Jira updates, and the dreaded "let's have another status meeting." Meanwhile, actual code sits unwritten, bugs remain unfixed, and deadlines drift further into fantasy land. The greatest maritime disaster of 2021 perfectly symbolizes what happens when management processes become so bloated they prevent any actual work from getting done. But sure, let's discuss our sprint velocity while the ship is literally stuck.

Get In There And Make It About You

Get In There And Make It About You
The eternal struggle of working with Product Managers who somehow turn every feature request into their personal crusade. "We need better error handling" magically transforms into "When I was 12, my PlayStation crashed and I've been traumatized ever since." The mirror doesn't lie - that requirements document is just their therapy session disguised as a Jira ticket.

The New Project Nightmare

The New Project Nightmare
The graveyard of abandoned side projects rises from the depths to drown you while you excitedly reach for that shiny new GitHub repo. It's the developer's version of object permanence—if you can't see those half-implemented features and uncommented functions, they don't exist! Until your hard drive runs out of space from 37 different folders named "final_project_ACTUALLY_FINAL_v2". The cognitive dissonance is real: your brain convincing you that this time you'll definitely finish that microservice architecture while the ghosts of your past React components, unfinished Python scripts, and that one Rust project you started after watching a single YouTube tutorial all lurk beneath the surface.

Dev Project Honesty Report

Dev Project Honesty Report
Finally, a project status report that doesn't sugarcoat reality! This is what happens when your PM asks for "complete transparency" and you take it personally. From the 23.64 GB codebase (because who needs optimization?) to the "mix of tabs and spaces" (the mark of a true chaotic evil), this is every tech lead's nightmare made manifest. My favorite part? The test status: "Segmentation fault (core dumped)" paired with "passing if you try a second time" — which is basically every developer saying "it works on my machine" with extra steps. And let's not ignore the "coffee drunk: 694 L" metric — the only truly accurate measurement in the entire report.