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The Perfect Tech Name Doesn't Exist
Hardware Gamedev Programming
4 days ago 129.7K views 0 shares
The Perfect Tech Name Doesn't Exist
The perfect tech job doesn't exi— Jason Renders at NVIDIA. This guy's entire career is a dad joke that writes itself. His colleagues probably ask him to "render" his opinion in meetings while stifling giggles. Meanwhile, Dr. Papenbrock is sitting there wondering why he didn't get blessed with a surname that's literally his job description. Some people just win the tech name lottery.

Settings Be Like
Gamedev Hardware Unity Programming
9 days ago 169.7K views 2 shares
Settings Be Like
The EXISTENTIAL CRISIS of staring at two buttons labeled "Ray Tracing" and "Path Tracing" and having ABSOLUTELY NO CLUE what unholy difference exists between them! 💦 Meanwhile, your GPU is SCREAMING in the background as you toggle between settings that might as well be labeled "Make Computer Hot" and "Make Computer SLIGHTLY HOTTER." The audacity of game developers to assume we know what these rendering techniques do beyond "pretty graphics go brrr" is just... *chef's kiss* MAGNIFICENT.

Do You Want This File Or Not
Backend Webdev Javascript Programming Frontend
27 days ago 163.5K views 0 shares
Do You Want This File Or Not
The AUDACITY of these people! 💅 First they're like "Can you render this file for me?" then have the NERVE to expect you to use YOUR precious server resources?! Honey, my server isn't running a charity drive for your computational laziness! The classic client-side vs server-side battle where everyone wants the fancy results but nobody wants to sacrifice THEIR precious CPU cycles. It's like asking someone to bake you a cake and then demanding they eat it too! The sheer DRAMA of web development relationships - first date: "Can I have this file?" second date: "Why aren't you doing ALL THE WORK?!"

The Potato Graphics Connoisseur
Gamedev Hardware Unity Programming
29 days ago 167.8K views 0 shares
The Potato Graphics Connoisseur
The eternal struggle between performance and comedy. While everyone's dropping their life savings on RTX cards to see every pore on their character's face, some of us are over here deliberately cranking those settings down to potato quality. There's something deeply satisfying about watching a AAA game turn into a blocky, glitchy mess where characters' faces fold in on themselves during emotional cutscenes. It's the digital equivalent of watching a Shakespeare play performed by kindergartners - technically worse but infinitely more entertaining.

How Times Have Changed
Gamedev Hardware Unity
1 month ago 118.0K views 0 shares
How Times Have Changed
The evolution of gamer expectations is brutal. In 1997, blocky polygons had us gasping in awe like we'd seen the face of God. By 2013, we're complaining about "pixelated" graphics that would've melted our 90s brains. Fast forward to 2020, and we're cursing our $2000 rigs for struggling with photorealistic landscapes that NASA couldn't have rendered 10 years ago. It's the tech equivalent of kids today not understanding why we were excited about 56k modems. "What do you mean you had to WAIT for images to load? Like, more than 0.001 seconds?" Meanwhile, developers are in the corner having nervous breakdowns trying to render individual pores on NPCs that players will rocket-launch into oblivion anyway.

Game Devs Be Like We Are Half Way There
Gamedev Unity Programming
2 months ago 141.9K views 0 shares
Game Devs Be Like We Are Half Way There
Behold! The majestic game developer in their natural habitat, proudly displaying... a triangle with gradient colors. SEVENTEEN WEEKS of blood, sweat, and tears to create what is essentially the "Hello World" of graphics programming! 💀 The sheer AUDACITY to call this "halfway there" when they haven't even implemented physics, AI, or a single gameplay mechanic! But you know what? That triangle is PERFECT and they deserve a medal for not having thrown their computer out the window yet!

If You Don't Look At The Optimization Viewport It Can't Hurt You
Gamedev Unity Programming Debugging
2 months ago 169.2K views 0 shares
If You Don't Look At The Optimization Viewport It Can't Hurt You
The eternal struggle of 3D artists who create beautiful models with shader complexity that would make a GPU weep. While they blissfully ignore the optimization viewport (notice that "Shader Complexity" tab up top), anyone who dares look at the profiler has an existential crisis. That MaxShaderComplexityCount=2000 at the bottom is basically screaming "your beautiful art is killing the framerate, you monster." It's like putting 47 Instagram filters on your selfie and wondering why your phone is hot enough to cook an egg.

Ray Tracing: Expectation Vs. Reality
Gamedev Hardware Unity
2 months ago 157.7K views 0 shares
Ray Tracing: Expectation Vs. Reality
The difference between ray tracing off vs. on is basically the difference between seeing actual car lights and feeling like you're driving through a JJ Abrams movie. Your GPU fans just kicked into hyperdrive and your room temperature increased by 10 degrees, but hey—look at those sweet light streaks! The rendering algorithm is calculating every photon's journey like it's filing a detailed expense report, and your graphics card is sweating harder than a junior dev during a code review.

Bool Is Not A Bool, Ok Bro
Unity Gamedev Programming Debugging
2 months ago 120.7K views 0 shares
Bool Is Not A Bool, Ok Bro
Ah, the classic "Bool is not compatible with Bool" error - the existential crisis of data types! What you're witnessing is the glorious moment when a 3D rendering engine decides that its definition of a boolean is clearly superior to another component's definition of a boolean. It's like two developers arguing whether tabs or spaces are better, except it's the same primitive type disagreeing with itself. Somewhere, a computer science professor is crying into their formal type theory textbook while this shader graph casually violates the most basic principle of type compatibility. This is why we can't have nice things in graphics programming.

Me Talking To Girls
Gamedev Unity Algorithms Programming Debugging
2 months ago 113.0K views 0 shares
Me Talking To Girls
Ah, the classic "explaining graphics programming to someone who just wanted to know what you do for a living." Guy's deep in the weeds about shadow mapping and depth buffers while she's probably wondering if she can escape to the bathroom. The thousand-yard stare of the man in front is all of us who've overheard a developer monologuing about technical minutiae at a social event. Pro tip: save the rendering pipeline discussions for the second date.

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Who The Fuck Asked For Raytracing?
Gamedev Hardware Unity Programming
3 months ago 118.2K views 0 shares
Who The Fuck Asked For Raytracing?
Oh. My. GOD. The AUDACITY of game developers to put raytracing in EVERYTHING! 💅 The meme shows Noah being absolutely FLABBERGASTED by the three types of raytracing animals entering his ark. Like honey, we've gone from "raytracing always on games" (the small elephant) to the DRAMATIC options of "raytracing off" (the big elephant) and "raytracing on" (the penguin). Meanwhile, our graphics cards are LITERALLY MELTING and our electricity bills are having a midlife crisis! But sure, let's make those water puddles look extra reflective while I eat ramen for the fifth night in a row because I spent my life savings on an RTX card. WORTH IT! ✨

What AI Could Do vs. What Humans Actually Use It For
AI Hardware Gamedev Programming
3 months ago 135.7K views 0 shares
What AI Could Do vs. What Humans Actually Use It For
The noble aspirations of AI research versus the grim reality of where computational power actually goes. On the left, we have AI detecting breast cancer 5 years before it develops—potentially saving countless lives. On the right, some poor GPU is being absolutely tortured to render a cow at 15 FPS in what appears to be the world's jankiest video game, complete with a rage-filled gamer screaming about "fake frames." It's the perfect encapsulation of humanity's priorities: we build supercomputers that could solve humanity's greatest challenges, then immediately use them to make slightly better cow animations. The bottom corner showing all those graphics settings (RTX, DLSS, etc.) is just the chef's kiss of overkill for whatever that monstrosity is supposed to be.