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When game engine limitations meet developer ingenuity! In Fallout 3, the devs couldn't implement rideable trains due to engine constraints, so they created an NPC with a train-shaped hat who walks underground. Players think they're riding a train, but they're actually just wearing a dude like a hat who's shuffling below the surface. This is basically the digital equivalent of two kids in a trenchcoat pretending to be an adult, except it's a human pretending to be a train. Classic game dev hack that shows sometimes the most elegant solution is the most ridiculous one.

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The eternal struggle of every frontend dev: creating a Netflix clone with a grand total of one video element, brilliantly named "fight.mp4". Sure, you've got the filename netflix.html open in your editor, but that's where the similarities end! Nothing captures the wild optimism of developers quite like thinking you can recreate a billion-dollar streaming platform with a single HTML5 video tag. The gap between ambition and execution has never been so hilariously wide.

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When your debugging session gets interrupted by a rubber duck that actually works. The developer starts explaining their CSS padding issue to ChatGPT, notices something's wrong, and suddenly the rubber duck falls out of nowhere—forcing them into accidental rubber duck debugging. The irony? The duck solved the problem before ChatGPT could even respond. Proof that sometimes the best debugging tool is just talking to an inanimate object that judges you silently from your desk drawer.

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