The Tech Support Nightmare

Finnish indie games have become the stuff of legend in dev circles. These Nordic madlads create nightmare fuel wrapped in innocent-looking packages. Think Control , Alan Wake , or those surreal horror experiences that haunt Steam. They've mastered the art of making games that are simultaneously brilliant and deeply unsettling. The rest of us are just trying to make our collision detection work while they're over there bending reality and psychological horror into digital art forms. Their power cannot be contained by mere game engines.

While politicians argue about what George Washington would think today, the truth is clear - our first president would've ditched the powdered wig for the sweet, sweet embrace of VS Code's dark theme. Forget crossing the Delaware; he'd be crossing breakpoints and merging pull requests. The man who couldn't tell a lie would definitely tell you to stop using Notepad++ and join the modern era. Constitutional amendments? Nah, he'd be more concerned with his extension recommendations and keyboard shortcuts. The father of our country would've been the father of clean, well-indented code.

The classic programming double entendre strikes again. When someone says they're a "Swiftie," there's a critical ambiguity - are they obsessed with Taylor Swift's latest breakup anthem or do they spend their nights wrestling with optionals and protocols in Apple's programming language? The reptilian part of the brain wearing that t-shirt clearly expected the former, only to discover he's talking to someone who builds iOS apps for a living. Happens to the best of us. Next time just ask if they prefer "Shake It Off" or "guard let" statements.

When a single question mark costs thousands, but developers are just nodding in solidarity. That feeling when your SQL query drops an entire database because you wrote DELETE FROM users; instead of DELETE FROM users WHERE id=?; and suddenly you're part of an exclusive club no one actually wanted to join. The "I destroyed production with a single character" fraternity has excellent company but terrible benefits.

When Google asks for a "strong password," and you take it literally with HTML tags. Technically correct—the best kind of correct. The password field contains <strong><h1>Password</h1></strong> which is indeed a very "strong" password according to HTML semantics. Security experts hate this one weird trick.

The ultimate self-preservation tactic. When a relative discovers you're "good with computers," you're suddenly the designated IT department for every printer jam and Facebook password reset until the end of time. Saying "no" despite having a CS degree is like having a panic button for family gatherings. It's not lying, it's strategic incompetence - the only firewall that actually works against tech support requests.