Engineering Career Paths

The classic "idea guy" in game development strikes again! Nothing makes actual developers run for the hills faster than someone who's done all the "hard work" of coming up with an idea while expecting you to do the trivial part of... you know... actually building the entire game. It's like saying "I've designed a rocket ship on a napkin, now all you need to do is the engineering, physics, and actually launching it into space!" Sure buddy, let me drop everything and work on your revolutionary "Flappy Bird but with zombies" concept for free.

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Ah, the classic game dev pipeline of diminishing returns! First, you spend weeks upgrading textures that players will barely notice. Then you crank up those polygon counts because clearly what your game needs is characters with more triangles than actual gameplay features. Next comes the obsessive addition of microscopic details that absolutely nobody will see unless they're inspecting your models with an electron microscope. And finally—the pièce de résistance—just blur everything with fancy lighting effects and call it "cinematic." DLSS/FG (Deep Learning Super Sampling/Frame Generation) is basically saying "let AI fix our performance problems" instead of optimizing the code that's running at 12 FPS. It's the digital equivalent of sweeping dust under a really expensive, ray-traced rug.

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