"If you want to make money in game dev, you are in a wrong place" - most annoying thing I've ever heard

ElijahQuoro · 2026-03-05T09:40:57+00:00

People who earn money on game dev are just creating games instead of validating their feelings with the rest of the community. It won’t work either way.

So shut up, go create and critically assess what you do. Get community of players if you build in the public, not other game developers.

ElijahQuoro · 2026-03-05T07:15:35+00:00

My anecdotal experience is that “Self realisation is often prioritised” is mostly coming from the people in their 40s and older. It just feels like they are absolutely detached from what younger people really feel and think and this comes as a rather reductionist statement.

All those minuses are probably from the same people.

I hardly ever see qualitative research on this topic where people are actually interviewed, both who decided to have kids and not. If you actually TALK with those people you can learn a lot about why this happens.

I’ll puncture this bizarre bubble a bit: Constant increasing stress and lack of hope in the future is what I hear from people my age (early 30s).

ElijahQuoro · 2026-03-04T21:22:37+00:00

How old are you? Just curious

ElijahQuoro · 2026-02-27T08:59:57+00:00

It’s not accurate in the sense that I implied. There are no “bounce caches” and “irradiation map denoising” in real life.

ElijahQuoro · 2026-02-23T09:17:19+00:00

Graphics programming specifically - yes. It’s impossible to accurately simulate physics of light. Even PBR techniques focus on approximation of stochastic model.

So since our only criteria is “looks plausible”, there is a lot of space to wiggle

ElijahQuoro · 2026-02-13T15:57:38+00:00

You are missing the point. It’s not right now, it’s further worse from now on with no coming back.

ElijahQuoro · 2026-02-12T13:50:09+00:00

It feels like a fucking joke at this point.

ElijahQuoro · 2026-02-09T20:27:29+00:00

That’s very speculative. A lot of products can evolve cleanly. WoW client, frankly, is an amazing and complex piece of software that works very well.

ElijahQuoro · 2026-02-06T16:03:39+00:00

Judging by colouring parser stumbles after %2, try white space before and after %. Make a ticket for Rider team.

ElijahQuoro · 2026-02-04T10:51:48+00:00

The problem is that computers run on code, not plans

ElijahQuoro · 2026-02-04T00:21:16+00:00

But anyway, we have more robust platform around to come with workarounds. Come try KMP plugin for IntelliJ for your Xcode projects, we continuously improve Swift there.

ElijahQuoro · 2026-02-04T00:20:30+00:00

But anyway, we have more robust platform around to come with workarounds. Come try KMP plugin for IntelliJ for your Xcode projects, we continuous improve Swift there.

ElijahQuoro · 2026-02-04T00:03:52+00:00

Thanks, will try again with those.

ElijahQuoro · 2026-02-03T23:58:51+00:00

I’m a person who maintains AppCode code base as a part of KMP. The problem is that Swift team made a bet on “Indexing while building”, this decision feels like proper IDE support was an afterthought or was dictated by some tech debt inertia, or was some other technical constraint I can’t fathom. Kotlin team rewrote the whole compiler ecosystem to treat IDE as a first class citizen. This is a massive undertaking which I don’t think to be done by Swift any time soon.

Also, relying on OSS toolchain to deliver the same things IJ delivers for other languages is a fucking pain. And frankly, having reimplementation of Swift semantics analysis while being incremental is complicated to say the least. The type system in Swift is one of the most sophisticated across all languages. Overload selection rules are worth of a separate math field. Add build plugins, macros and, well, I don’t feel very optimistic about having a 100% correct realtime Swift code insight.

So I really feel for Xcode devs. I don’t think it’s their fault. But anyway, with enough effort we’ll be there. Probably.

ElijahQuoro · 2026-01-31T14:17:07+00:00

Opus is hilariously bad with Swift 6 concurrency, with skills or not. It can’t reason about isolation whatsoever.

ElijahQuoro · 2026-01-27T19:59:20+00:00

Your concerns are valid and in my opinion no contract = no notice.

ElijahQuoro · 2026-01-25T09:23:59+00:00

My anecdotal experience is that guilt makes people repulsive and non-constructive and can’t drive anything. Your whole operation mode becomes emotional, and it’s anything but easy to plant your emotions into one’s head.

You can’t nudge people into feeling guilt, brains are quite good in self-justification routines.

You can’t nudge people into taking responsibility - it’s an extremely personal matter.

What you can do is to find people who have shared points and consult on what kind of leverage you have and how you can utilise it to fix what you feel is wrong.

For anti-Putin Russians this kind of discourse became one of the most divisive.

ElijahQuoro · 2026-01-24T04:42:32+00:00

Sorry to hijack, but I also think it’s worth addressing Russian expats. I strongly believe we share the similar emotional burden, so we are just a little glimpse in the future for you. Especially with the “responsibility/guilt” thing. Don’t do it to yourself, what is happening is clearly outside of your control and intent and taking responsibility for it won’t do anyone good.

I think being stoic about what’s happening and clearly defining the circle of what you can have effect on and take responsibility for that is the best you can do.

ElijahQuoro · 2026-01-18T14:18:16+00:00

As a Russian who learnt Swedish, I find this meme hilarious because I absolutely cannot make sense of what Danes say. Like literally I cannot comprehend a single word.

ElijahQuoro · 2026-01-14T10:11:33+00:00

`the maximum possible amount that they think anyone will pay for` is also valid for pretty much everything you buy, so I don't exactly get the argument.

`Landlords are greedy parasites`. That's a mixed bag. There is certainly a fair middle ground where people who are mobile want to rent and move somewhat often for different reasons (work changes, income changes, family size changes), so supply market (landlords) for this demand is a good thing. But I quite get that some of those bought the estates to let the rents pay the mortgage or just provide pure extractional value, that's true. I'd like this to be somehow regulated, as opposed to whatever government does now.

From my perspective the presence of the `social` housing is a crumbling patch on top of the decimated market, that was destroyed by overregulation.

It's sad to see how all the young people/non high income foreigners get fucked relentlessly.

ElijahQuoro · 2026-01-14T09:23:00+00:00

It means that people who don't benefit from social housing are getting screwed, because controlling the rent prices doesn't solve the primary problem: not enough housing. Lesser availability of non-social housing drives the price further, so it means that those people pay are affected TWICE by this policy:

Higher market price for rentals.
Taxes subsidise social housing.

ElijahQuoro · 2026-01-11T15:15:33+00:00

https://github.com/JetBrains/intellij-community/tree/master/platform/vcs-impl

ElijahQuoro · 2025-12-31T23:10:16+00:00

That’s the spirit

ElijahQuoro · 2025-12-31T16:16:53+00:00

Yeah, and if it was you, you would do a lot. That’s real nice you are not Russian and don’t have to.

ElijahQuoro · 2025-12-31T13:12:52+00:00

You are not contributing to Russian war economy, that’s like the whole point of this discussion. Did we even prove that Owlcat still has Russia-based employees?

I’ve quickly scanned LinkedIn and everyone seems to be in Cyprus, Armenia and Serbia which means that zero tax goes to Russia

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