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From what i’ve heard of the game industry, being a gamedev is already survival horror.

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I had a friend doing mobile gamedev, making near unheard-of money for their then city of residence, had everything going well for them… except the job was soul-crushing and draining, eventually giving them severe depression.

When I was getting my first dev job, they said I’d be really sorry about doing outsource, and I just thought that out of us two, I’d be the really happy one, even making much less than them.

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75 points

Not really visual anymore innit

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Spotlight studio

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Knew a programmer that was near blind who only used magnifier on maximum zoom with his IDE. One of the best programmers I met, but his screen looked very much like that. Don’t know how he did it.

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Programming happens in the mind. Whats on the screen is a pale and lifeless polaroid devoid of the moving, complex soul of real code.

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That feels like that scene in Amadeus, when Mozart dictates his music to Salieri.

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Well put, however I find code formatting itself has a shape, texture and smell. How the programmer weaves the patterns of formatting tells a lot about his mind and style.

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Agreed; or their mind and style style.

Auto formatting is often too rigid for me and gets in the way of context driving the style.

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Albino? There was an albino in my IT and the poor dude would literally be like 4 inches from the screen at all times. I guess that must be pretty close to his experience, yeah.

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Yeah, I worked with an albino like that who used a handheld magnifying glass. It actually inspired me to write a magnifier application for windows (which didn’t have one at the time, this was in 2006). That then led me to write little windows apps every day for a month, which got a lot of attention.

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Yeah so you gotta buy the lumafly lantern before you go in that area

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I never expected a Hollow Knight reference here

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52 points

But I have an LCD display

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non-AMOLED devices spreading misinfo by enabling dark mode by default on low battery and it’s consequences…

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Low battery mode on…computers?

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Yeah. Some folk use portable computers on top of their laps. It’s weird :/

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