4 months into my first sof-dev job and getting serious impostor syndrome

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OH MY GOD, THE INDIE DEV NIGHTMARE JUST GOT REAL! 😱 This poor indie developer thought they were being SO ORIGINAL with their Armored Core-inspired game, only to have FromSoftware drop AC6 and then MECHA BREAK with the EXACT SAME MECHANICS they spent years building! The emotional journey from "I can figure this out" to "OH NO THEY STOLE MY WHOLE IDENTITY" is just *chef's kiss* devastating. And that final panel? THE RCS SYSTEM IS 100% IDENTICAL?! That's not just getting sniped by the competition—that's getting your soul harvested by the gaming gods themselves! The indie dev market is truly the hunger games of programming, and this poor soul just got CANNONED.

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Ah, the classic courtroom drama where the programmer is on trial while the user screams into a tiny "Software" microphone! The real crime? That UI design that made perfect sense to the dev but left users completely baffled. The programmer sits there thinking "but I added tooltips!" while the user is ready to testify about the emotional damage caused by that impossible-to-find settings menu. Let's be honest - we've all built interfaces that were perfectly logical... to absolutely no one but ourselves.