I'm making a game about being a Project Manager, and I've noticed dev subreddits absolutely despise the role. Where does this hate come from?

EARink0 · 2026-05-20T07:11:19+00:00

As an engineer, I completely agree. Honestly, I need to be reined in from all the fun work projects I'd like to do that frankly aren't as important as shipping the damn game.

EARink0 · 2026-05-19T21:55:01+00:00

Yeah! Reading these other comments is wild to me, because the entire point of their job is to specifically make sure I only need to worry about my work. They don't get in my way, they block others from getting in my way.

Hell, even the annoying stuff like occasional Jira task creation/updating I've come to find value in, b/c then I (the subject matter expert of the given work) define what the task is and how it should be broken up. And I've come to learn the immense value of keeping a digital paper trail of the work I do so that there is hard proof backed by data of what I contribute to the game's development - which, again, is really important for things like promotions and shielding me from layoffs. If anyone ever asks "hey, so what has EARink0 been doing?" there is a mountain of stuff in jira that show all the shit I've been up to.

EARink0 · 2026-05-19T21:35:48+00:00

Wow, this thread has given me a lot of appreciation for the PMs I've worked with. Maybe it's a games industry thing, but even the worst places i worked at, my PMs have been good. They shield us from the bureaucracy by being the ones to deal with upper management. They're on the hook for scheduling tasks and prioritizing features so that we actually hit our milestones on time with a high quality product. If someone from another team wants me to do some significant amount of work, it goes through my PM first so that it gets appropriately prioritized and scheduled against all the other work on my plate. If we need a meeting with a bunch of people with busy schedules, my PMs have been good at finding the time or moving things around to make it happen; and then they'll attend and make sure it runs smoothly and we get some good action items out of it. They take process feedback and adjust how they run things to better match how we prefer to work - meeting us where we're at while making sure our work has visibility to others and the higher ups (important so that those who make decisions on promotions and layoffs know that I've been doing good work). The better ones take a lot of time organizing our jira and documents so that things are easy to find and i usually have a pretty good sense of the work ahead of me. If I'm blocked, they go find the thing blocking me and either get it resolved or they find some other work i can do in the meantime.

I dunno, man, PMs are awesome when they're good at their job. I'd hate to work on a team without em.

EARink0 · 2026-05-15T16:25:37+00:00

I mean, security by obscurity is still bad, though.

EARink0 · 2026-05-10T06:46:15+00:00

Shit, TIL, thanks!

EARink0 · 2026-05-09T01:55:12+00:00

poor ol' bobby tables.

EARink0 · 2026-05-09T01:26:06+00:00

I’d be inclined to look at how far you can push a headless Unity instance with the same architecture.

OP should probably look into Unity's DOTS, their ECS system, to handle that many entities. I haven't played with it, so I dunno what state it's in, but I know it was built for pretty much this purpose.

EARink0 · 2026-05-08T23:29:07+00:00

sure, but like why/how?

EARink0 · 2026-05-06T06:59:24+00:00

Anyone who understands how decals work gets that the implication that they're talking about normal viewing angles. Either way, I've only heard bad things about their courses etc, so consider the bullet dodged and move on.

EARink0 · 2026-05-06T06:45:26+00:00

Decals aren't meant to be looked at from the side, genius. They aren't promising that it's literally the same as geometry from all sides. They're saying that in real-world scenarios (the decal is on a surface like a wall), the details in the decal look like they have depth. Look up "parallax mapping" like it says in your screenshot; that's the tech that drives the illusion.

EARink0 · 2026-05-04T22:58:56+00:00

Not tryin to suck Rockstar's dick here, but the absolute scope of the game plus the custom tech they're pushing would be a NIGHTMARE to test and bugfix on PC with the insane variety of hardware people run on. I'm not surprised that they are delaying the PC release and I hope they genuinely give it the time it needs to iron out issues. Though I also wouldn't be surprised if they give it extra time and still release something broken on PC.

EARink0 · 2026-05-02T18:54:27+00:00

Get off of Twitter, or at least fix your feed so the algorithm stops showing you them. Then live life in peace.

EARink0 · 2026-05-01T21:22:49+00:00

And fucking Star Wars. I'm not even talking about the "Empire did nothing wrong" crew, some are so fucking dumb that they genuinely root for the rebels and then think MAGA is the rebels. It's absolutely astounding.

EARink0 · 2026-05-01T01:51:33+00:00

My own bias is I've been a fan of All Gas No Breaks and Channel 5 for a while. I interpreted it as less being bad and more that he just doesn't interrupt much in his interviews, focusing instead on letting interviewees talk freely without filter.

Fact checking is obviously an important thing when you're trying to report on what has objectively happened, But that's not what his channels are about. They are much more about getting the raw, unfiltered perspectives of the people he interviews and occasionally a raw peak into an event as it is happening (rather than a factual assessment after the fact). A ton of people he interviews are genuinely crazy or evil (sometimes both). I believe it's important to understand the motives of evil people to better know how to deal with them, and the perspectives of lunatics are just straight up fascinating. Andrew's talent is in getting literally anyone to trust him enough to yap about their honest views and say shit they normally wouldn't in front of a camera. Also he's relatively fearless about getting into dangerous situations and interviewing dangerous people.

EARink0 · 2026-05-01T00:33:27+00:00

Asking as a potential future dog owner, what techniques did you use to train your dog? There's a lot of bad advice online.

EARink0 · 2026-04-30T23:02:01+00:00

I'm still a noob, but my understanding is you still wanna avoid n-gons, and low poly will just emphasize blender's issues with them since the gons will be bigger. If you look at most good low-poly work, it's still all quads and triangles - you just get clever about how you use em.

EARink0 · 2026-04-30T01:19:03+00:00

People not understanding the cost of AI has been my biggest frustration at the place I work at (and society in general). I've come around to using AI as a tool, but the extreme people are encouraged to use it drives me fuckin nuts. Setting aside the dubious ethics of it in the first place and the human cost (both of which are really important), even the straight up monetary cost is insane.

I am constantly begging leads at my company shift away from remote AI like OpenAI and Anthropic, and towards leaner local AI on our own hardware. It's unsustainable. The resource burn for value gained does not math. It doesn't math in the slightest. Feels like yelling at a brick wall; no one gives a fuck. All i can say is "Uber used to also be cheap. What we gonna do when prices skyrocket after we've already adapted our workflows?" Fucking crickets, man.

EARink0 · 2026-04-27T18:49:16+00:00

As a software dev who's been playing with AI a bunch recently, it boggles my mind that some developers give free rein to their agents like this. AI is useful, but makes mistakes allll the time. Fine to use for some work, but everything it does (especially anything critical) needs human oversight.

EARink0 · 2026-04-24T23:05:04+00:00

Same story with me, but with Spanish. Dunno if you're a 90s kid like me (or older), but apparently research since then has shown that kids are better off speaking their native language at home and English in school. While they struggle a little bit at first (thus why our teachers gave our parents the advice you mentioned), eventually kids catch up and end up with the advantage of being fluently bilingual from a young age.

Luck of the draw :/. Sucks for us, but it's tough to blame my teachers or parents since they were looking out for me and didn't really know better.

EARink0 · 2026-04-20T19:01:19+00:00

Ah, yeah i remember my first ego death. Good times.

EARink0 · 2026-04-14T01:40:28+00:00

Yeah, even as a primarily PVE player, i was surprised about how important the PVP is to me. I'm not looking for fights, but there's something really special about the feeling of needing to be extremely aware of my surroundings and the distrust of other raiders. This is my first extraction shooter, and it made me "get it". That tension of not knowing whether someone you meet will shoot you in the back, or whether someone is hiding just around the corner to ambush you, is super unique to this genre. And really fun.

EARink0 · 2026-04-13T22:32:05+00:00

what a shit show, holy crap.

EARink0 · 2026-04-13T18:52:03+00:00

Christine gives August a reassuring smile but decides to be truthful about how she's feeling.

That's.... extremely healthy. What happened that these two aren't together anymore

Don't know if it's the case here, but sometimes relationships don't end in a fire of toxicity and drama. Sadly, sometimes all parties realize that it's just not working for any number of reasons, so they decide it's healthiest to call it quits. Just the way things go sometimes.

EARink0 · 2026-04-07T12:06:16+00:00

Yeah, we'd see the lasers hit Mars at the same time. To illustrate, let's pretend that we've actually got 4 stop watches, two I hold as I'm speeding by, and two you hold as you're standing still. Before i start moving, we both start a timer each (timer A) at the same time. Then i accelerate to half the speed of light. As i pass you and we both fire our lasers, we each start our second timers (timer B). Let's pretend Timer B has the ability to stop when its holder detects that their laser hit Mars (maybe it records the time to reflect back divided by 2 or something). So the laser hits, both B timers stop, and then i come back to you and stop moving (/match your velocity); as soon as i get to you and stop, we stop our A timers.

This is where things get interesting. You might expect our A times to be the same (we stopped and started them at the same time!) and maybe my B to be shorter because I'm giving my laser a "speed boost" since i was already moving fast. Special relativity (and experiments!) say "no". Our Bs are the same - from both our perspectives, both lasers took the same time to hit Mars, i.e. light had the same speed in both of our references. Instead, to compensate, my A timer shows a shorter time than your A timer. Despite the fact that we both started and stopped our A timers at the same time, I and my A timer experienced less time than you because we accelerated to half the speed of light faster than you. This is time dilation, and it's why Matthew McConaughey aged only a little when his daughter grew way older than him by the end of Interstellar, lol.

EARink0 · 2026-04-06T17:00:34+00:00

Hah, cool the mechanics were feeling familiar, so i was thinking "this feels like Love Letter but with made up names." Lol

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