Physics Memes

Physics in Programming: where game developers learn that realistic simulations are often less fun than the laws of nature would suggest. These memes celebrate the intersection of physical science and software development, from the simple calculations of projectile motion to the complex simulations of fluid dynamics. If you've ever implemented gravity only to watch objects fall through the floor, optimized collision detection to the point of obsession, or explained to designers why their concept breaks the laws of thermodynamics, you'll find your theoretical and applied science friends here. From the elegant simplicity of Newtonian mechanics to the mind-bending complexity of quantum computing, this collection honors the discipline that helps software model reality while frequently reminding developers that reality is more complex than any model.

Add Capsule Collider
Physics Gamedev Unity Programming Debugging
4 days ago 128.7K views 0 shares
Add Capsule Collider
Game developers know the pain! The guy is happily riding his bike with a stick, then suddenly the stick passes through his body like a ghost because—surprise—no collision detection! In Unity and other game engines, forgetting to add a capsule collider is basically inviting physics to take a vacation. That stick should've bonked him on the head, but instead, it's phasing through him like it's quantum tunneling. Every game dev has had that moment of "why isn't this object interacting with anything?!" only to realize they forgot the most basic component.

Game Dev Death Match
Physics Hardware Gamedev Unity Programming
4 days ago 182.0K views 0 shares
Game Dev Death Match
The epic showdown nobody expected: Old-school pirate-themed game engines vs. modern anime girl physics engines! Left side shows "THE STRONGEST GAMEDEV IN HISTORY" with a menacing skull pirate that ran smoothly on a Pentium II with 4MB of RAM. Meanwhile, "THE STRONGEST GAMEDEV OF TODAY" features a cute anime character whose hair physics alone requires a NASA supercomputer and makes your GPU beg for mercy. Your RTX 4090 isn't sweating because of ray tracing—it's calculating each individual strand of that anime girl's hair during a gentle breeze.

Math Is Kinda Important
Physics Gamedev C++ Unity Math
16 days ago 87.6K views 1 shares
Math Is Kinda Important
Oh, sweet summer child who thinks game development is just pressing the "make cool game" button! That facepalm moment when you realize that 3D graphics are basically advanced calculus wearing a trench coat. Unity, OpenGL, Autodesk, and C++ aren't just laughing at you—they're laughing geometrically in vectors and matrices. Every physics simulation, every lighting effect, every character movement is pure, unadulterated mathematics having a party on your GPU. The irony is exquisite—running away from math class straight into the loving arms of linear algebra, differential equations, and quaternions. It's like saying "I hate getting wet" and then announcing your dream career is "professional submarine captain."

Rocks With Lightning: The True Nature Of Computing
Physics Hardware Programming Debugging
16 days ago 95.5K views 0 shares
Rocks With Lightning: The True Nature Of Computing
Your hacky code works? Don't sweat it. We're all just convincing rocks to do math by zapping them with electricity. Next time you're feeling bad about your janky workaround, remember that our entire profession is built on tricking minerals into thinking. And hey, if your solution is ugly but functional, you're basically following the grand tradition of computer engineering - flatten a rock, put lightning inside it, and hope for the best. Silicon doesn't judge.

Found A Library That Computes The Universe But Fails On Logging
Physics Devops Programming Debugging
21 days ago 146.9K views 0 shares
Found A Library That Computes The Universe But Fails On Logging
The classic GitHub experience: finding some mind-blowing library that simulates the entire universe through quantum physics, only to have it crash because someone updated their logging package . The dependency house of cards strikes again! Nothing says "modern development" quite like your groundbreaking scientific simulation failing because console.log got a new emoji feature.

Guys, How I Can Stop My Demon Core From Blinding Me?
Physics Hardware
1 month ago 128.5K views 0 shares
Guys, How I Can Stop My Demon Core From Blinding Me?
Ah, the infamous RGB lighting on a gaming PC that's bright enough to signal aliens! The joke here is brilliant—calling it a "demon core" references the notorious nuclear physics experiment that emitted deadly blue light when criticality was reached. Your GPU isn't just rendering frames—it's rendering your retinas useless! That's what happens when you max out those RGB settings and create a miniature sun in your bedroom. The PC master race's equivalent of a nuclear meltdown is three fans of blinding blue light at 3am when you're just trying to fix that one bug. Pro tip: If you can see your skeleton through your hand when checking your RAM, you might want to dial down those settings in the RGB controller software. Your corneas will thank you.

The Quantum Mechanics Of USB Connections
Physics Hardware
1 month ago 73.9K views 0 shares
The Quantum Mechanics Of USB Connections
The universal law of USB ports: you'll always try to plug it in wrong twice before getting it right. First attempt? Wrong. Flip it? Still wrong. Flip it back to the original position that somehow magically works now? Success! It's like quantum physics for connectors - the USB exists in a superposition of wrong orientations until observed by the third attempt. After 15 years in tech, I'm convinced USB ports are secretly designed by chaos engineers who feed on our frustration.

Game Devs And The Holy DeltaTime
Physics Gamedev Unity Math Programming
1 month ago 81.7K views 0 shares
Game Devs And The Holy DeltaTime
Frame-independent game physics is the hill many junior devs die on. Multiply all movement by deltaTime or watch your character zoom at light speed on a gaming PC and crawl like a snail on a potato. Skip this step and your boss will find you, and they will kill you. Not the crime mentioned in the meme, but an actual crime against humanity.

Finally Reached The Limit Of Object Oriented Programming
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1 month ago 104.9K views 0 shares
Finally Reached The Limit Of Object Oriented Programming
What starts as a simple "model a car" assignment quickly descends into quantum physics. Just another day where inheritance hierarchies spiral out of control until you're implementing abstract quarks. And they wonder why the project is six months behind schedule. Next week: implementing the String Theory interface because someone in management read about it in a magazine.

Vibe Nuclear Physicists
Physics Devops Programming Debugging
1 month ago 116.4K views 0 shares
Vibe Nuclear Physicists
The perfect visualization of a production deployment on Friday at 4:55 PM. Left guy is in full zen mode because he's already updated his resume. Middle guy with the thousand-yard stare knows exactly who wrote that garbage code but can't say anything because it was him. Right guy is frantically Googling "how to rollback nuclear meltdown" while realizing Stack Overflow is down. Meanwhile, the entire system is about to go thermonuclear because someone forgot to escape a single quote in a SQL query.

We Have Programming Language At Home
Physics Algorithms Math Programming
2 months ago 103.4K views 0 shares
We Have Programming Language At Home
This is the programming equivalent of asking for McDonald's and your mom saying "we have food at home" — except the food at home is MATLAB. If you've ever had the misfortune of using MATLAB, you know it's that weird cousin of programming languages that engineers and academics love but actual software developers avoid like a production bug on Friday afternoon. It's powerful for math and matrices (hence the name), but coding in it feels like trying to build a website using only a scientific calculator. The $2000+ license fee is just the cherry on top of this engineering department nightmare.

Fort Ran From String Manipulation
Physics Math Programming
2 months ago 93.7K views 1 shares
Fort Ran From String Manipulation
The left side shows the beefy, muscular Doge representing Fortran—the ancient powerhouse of scientific computing—flexing its numerical computation muscles. Meanwhile, the weak Doge on the right is begging for mercy from string manipulation tasks, which Fortran handles about as gracefully as a physicist at a poetry slam. This is basically every scientific programmer from the 60s who chose Fortran for its blazing fast number crunching, then spent the next decade crying whenever they needed to process text. The language was literally designed by people who thought "who needs words when you have EQUATIONS?"