There Goes My Motivation

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Content BJ Smith BJSmithArt Why are IT guys such dicks? Eric Chapman eschapman Replying to BJSmithArt Last week I drove two hours to push the power button on a server that three separate people assured me was already on.

The classic game dev paradox in its natural habitat! Players beg for solutions to stop game-killing practices, and devs respond with the corporate equivalent of Tom's shrug. "Sure, we could stop the microtransactions, predatory monetization, and rushed releases... but have you considered buying our new $19.99 'Listening To Feedback' DLC instead?" The best part is when they eventually implement those "impossible" ideas after the community backlash reaches nuclear levels. Nothing motivates creative problem-solving like watching your stock price plummet!

That moment when your high-end gaming rig with 32GB RAM and RTX 4090 can barely handle a remastered version of a game from 2003. You excitedly select "Auto Detect Quality" expecting it to max out everything, only for the system to take one look at the spaghetti code underneath the shiny new textures and go "Yeah... let's set this to medium." Your $3000 machine just got humbled by legacy code that was written when 512MB of RAM was considered excessive. The real remaster was the existential crisis we gained along the way.

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The duality of a developer's existence captured in two frames! Top panel: You're the unstoppable Hulk, smashing through problems with brute force hacks and questionable solutions. Who cares about best practices when your spaghetti code actually runs? Bottom panel: The crushing reality of code review hits. Suddenly you're the embarrassed Hulk, face-palming as your colleagues discover your 17 nested if-statements, magic numbers, and that comment that says "// TODO: fix this horrible hack before anyone sees it." The ONE WAY sign in the background is the perfect metaphor - there's only one direction after code review: refactoring hell.