Nothing quite like a problem where you know a better solution exists compared to what's available through online resources but you can't think of what it is. Or more specifically, dear Unreal Engine tutorial community: please stop shoving everything you make into Event Tick, thanks.

Watching Stellaris drop a bunch of performance analysis is funny because the normal 10% of the community went "oh cool" and the remaining 90% went "nuh-uh my friend's cousin's wife's former college roommate said sentry arrays felt kinda laggy so it must be that, you devs are just lazy!"

Look, it's not a secret that I hate Palworld, but the amount of hypocrisy from people whom I know previously complained about the "Fortniteification" of games (I.E. crossovers) suddenly turning around and praising PocketPair for going all-in on crossovers is too annoying to not at least mention.

I still get blind-sided by the sheer number of people who just hear something and immediately assume it's fact. I get it, there are always people who you consider trustworthy, but still, at least spend a minimum 30 seconds to see if the thing you're mad about is, y'know, ACTUALLY REAL.

I'm sorry, I'm utterly fascinated by this clickbait-ass article about the "cooler, Japanese" method for multiplication that: A) Isn't useful for large numbers B) Likely didn't originate in Japan C) Doesn't seem to actually be in use in Japan today that I can confirm getpocket.com/explore/item...

I still really don't like the term "enshittification", seeing as 90% of its use-case is "this new thing is mildly inconvenient, sorta cringe, or otherwise doesn't vibe with my nostalgia, this is clearly evidence of the total collapse of western civilization."

Sometimes it's really hard to have optimism whenever I see the YouTube sidebar. "People are generally intelligent and rational." *glances to multiple video essays made by grown-ass men saying the world will implode because they don't find Pokemon fun anymore* "...ignore that, please."

Something that irks me is when people complain about "enshitification" and then proceed to nostalgia-wank about how "great" the old internet was. Buddy, you threw a tantrum because a new menu is mildly inconvenient to you, you would straight-up die if you tried to actually browse older websites.

I feel like I'm going insane watching people elsewhere on social media treat a Pokémon Company tweet where they "got the Pokéball wrong" as serious drama. Like, yeah, game devs have a bunch of ways to spawn in stuff for testing and promos. You can't be "sus" when you own the friggin' IP.

I'm starting to have doubts on how valid "it works on MY machine" is as mockery. Yeah, it works on my machine, and my machine is a mess, so now the better question is: what absolute fuckery did you do to YOUR machine's settings that prevents this simple solution from working?

The existence of the words "imploded" and "exploded" suggests that the default state of all things is "ploded". The philosophical ramifications of this are unclear.

Bethesda is the new Disney's Star Wars. In the sense of I'm sure they did SOMETHING bad with their IPs but I don't believe a single word of it because I'm constantly catching people making blatant lies and every time I point out said lies I get told it "doesn't matter because it COULD be true".

I'm actually really sick of people acting every new game, game update, movie, TV show, TV show episode, book, etc is the end of originality or whatever just because they in particular don't like it. It wasn't true the last 7,564,378,619,818 times someone said it, why on earth would it be true now?

Both of these below users could have gotten better art more easily from an actual artist, or by doing it themselves. They chose not to, and the results speak for themselves.

The last political snark I'll make is this: Blaming everyone but themselves and then refusing to do anything but sit on their ass and clutch pearls about how things got this way is pretty much what I expected from social media. Though that doesn't make it less infuriating.

I was going to call out the person who sent a horde of blank-avatar accelerationist tankies to my replies because I told him this would happen if people didn't vote, but it seems he got banned for doing what he did to a bunch of others. So, now I don't really have an outlet for my rage at all. Yay.

Apropos of nothing I kinda unironically wish recipes would stop using things like "medium-high heat", or at least put "about a x on my stove" in parentheses. Stoves go 1 to 9 and I know I cook top ramen on 7. Gimme a reference point I can use, please and thank you.

More of these AI fuckers. The user claiming to be against climate change especially pisses me off; they repost a bunch of keywords and don't really have much original content so I suspect they're a bot. And in case you were looking, usernames are in the alt text. Block as you will.

I'm getting a slew of random AI image posts on my timeline lately and I have no idea why, though I'd really appreciate it if they'd fuck right off.

10 million, huh? Watching this site grow has been something.

Dear Unreal marketplace creators, "Plug-and-play" means I can just drop your collection into my game and have it work with minimal effort. Please stop making your documentation only available in the form of 20-minute YouTube videos and clunky, engine-incompatible example maps. Thank you.

Listening to the person with the self-proclaimed "background in compsci" explain to me how they think network scalability works.

I wish Unreal Engine tutorials stopped putting so much into the character blueprint. I understand the engine itself requires the character or camera for certain actions, but isn't it much better practice to spread out functionality between blueprints and make everything more modular?

I've figured out why I get so angry at people complaining about computers online: it reminds me of working in IT. People: "Ugh, can you believe this issue I'm having with Windows?" Me: "Well, you can solve that by—" People: "I don't want a solution! I want to be mad about the problem existing!"

It's honestly kinda impressive how quickly (and almost exclusively) people start rejecting the phrase "let people enjoy things" once people start enjoying things they in particular dislike.

Everyone complains about spellcheck until they make a mistaake.

Some people will legit say the most unfunny thing imaginable and get a bunch of people in their replies or elsewhere praising their "dry humor". A bad joke told in a monotone isn't "dry humor", it's just bad.

I don't understand a lot of these "real <profession> reacts" videos. At least the ones where they're watching a player and not doing a Let's Play. Not because they're just overdone, but every time I watch them they never offer any perspective? They just repeat the most obvious things imaginable.

Please, I'm begging people, this is Slide Cop 2.0, not every viral video is a shocking commentary on our society that needs elaborate analysis, it's literally just some guy doing a joke at his wedding that his wife very likely agreed to beforehand, please turn off the computer and GO OUTSIDE.

Today I saw someone say that Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth has "PS2 graphics" because Cloud doesn't stay wet if you jump into water. I need to go find an uncaring void to scream into for a few hours.

I'm not a big fan of multiple-ending games because for me it usually goes like: "Sorry but you didn't pick up all the golden wheat seeds and dance the macarena in front of the statue that's only visible on odd-numbered Thursdays, all the characters you like are tortured to death in the bad end."

I really like that the Unreal community provides a lot of tutorials, and I've learned a lot, but there's SOME annoying videos out there that are like "to rig weapons simply drag and drop this pre-made weapon mesh that I won't tell you where to get into the scene, please like and subscribe".

I like how the latest trend in Twitter bots is to post straight-up porn, so the algorithm hides it. Then when someone clicks on the "show more" button thinking it's just a hidden reply caught due to some keyword you just get tits and dick in your face instead. Normal, functioning website.

I know it's not an exclusive club and is really based on keywords and all, but watching the Game Dev Bluesky feed go from cool indie artists giving design tips to "AI and plagiarism are good actually because it fucks over Nintendo this time" is still pretty disheartening.

Finding someone who shares my exact views in a niche internet argument and resisting the urge to declare them my eternal soulmate.

Since Steamboat Willie is technically in the public domain, I have to announce that if the cringe-ass Redditor I argued with years ago ever goes through with his plan to make a "Wicked-style reinterpretation" of said 8-minute-long cartoon I will personally go to his house and punch him in the nards.

I am begging people on the internet to stop using the phrase "AI generated" as a synonym for "kinda generic and mid". You're allowed to dislike things, just say you don't like the thing and move on with your life, please please PLEASE stop making things up to justify you not liking something.

I have finally pissed someone off enough for them to add me to a mute list, but alas, it's not the "liberal" list that the tankies made. My work is not yet completed, I must continue ever onwards until I get that badge of honor.

Honestly, being an adult kinda sucks sometimes. Just now I had to exercise the impulse control to not buy a whole box of nerds rope off the internet and go to town on it. It's hard, man.

Last week or so, @discontinuedfoods.bsky.social posted about Taco Bell’s foray into sloppy joes; the Bell Beefer. I found this name so stupid I decided to make them.

Not expecting many replies but does anyone on game dev Bluesky happen to know of good resources for designing something like a circuit puzzle (a la Bioshock or System Shock remake) in Unreal Engine? I keep looking it up but getting results for "place the box on the button" puzzles instead.

I'm still surprised at how many times I've seen people in online communities say things like "I can't believe I got banned, all I did was tell people to kill themselves and then spammed reaction images for an hour and these power-tripping mods took out their anger on little 'ol me!"

Huge props to IDW for creating all those insane comics because every time some loser says a franchise has "jumped the shark" with their new stuff all I have to do is point to issue #52, "Ghostbusters & TMNT vs. Megatron & Tirek" or whatever that was released like 10 years ago, it's great.

Politics on social media hasn't really taught me anything I didn't already know, although it consistently makes me thankful that 99% of people on the internet aren't in charge of anything important.

When I initially saw it I thought it looked incredibly creepy, but the more I see it in action the more impressed I am by Unreal Engine's Metahumans. Partly because I found out one of the default models is named "Walter" and one of the components in it is called "hairLoss", which I find hilarious.

One weird thing I've noticed in discourse recently is not just a lack of evidence but a lack of a claim entirely. It's like reading a recipe website to find out why someone might be a bad person. I THINK they're trying to "deep dive" the issue but like, they don't have a conclusion or anything?

Altering the graphics settings using Unreal Engine was shockingly easier than expected and, as usual, my main problem seems to be the fact that I suck at making widgets look nice. Ah well, progress is progress and it feels nice to learn things.

I am trapped in a vicious cycle where I go to the store and buy spicy beef jerky, feel regret burning in my mouth for a week, and then go to the store and buy spicy beef jerky.

I don't know how to express to people on the internet that I feel they're exaggerating to the point of absurdity without starting an argument. And then I get sad because a lot of people just eat up said absurd claim uncritically, which means that if I DO start the argument, I just get dogpiled.

I love getting the free-per-month asset packs from Unreal Engine's marketplace. I'll probably never use them in a professional capacity, or even at all, but I find it amazing to just stop and look at what people have made sometimes.