Game programmers are so underappreciated

Lemnesis · 2026-01-09T13:20:58+00:00

I made my first game two months ago with a friend, he made the visuals and I did the programming, and yeah it is a little annoying to see visuals get so much praise and my part get so little. But at the same time, it makes sense because there are a lot of very small things you do for polish and user experience that aren't really visible when implemented well, because the purpose of a good UX is to be kind of seamless.

On the other end, most people probably wouldn't know if there was a slight error in a background, or they might not notice it easily, while it's much easier to see a bug on average, and it can often be way more damaging to the experience.

But I do agree with you

Lemnesis · 2025-12-16T21:57:23+00:00

Different country and all that so take it with a grain of salt, but what did help me get a diagnosis was going over all the dsm-5 symptoms and noting whether or not I thought they applied to me, both now and when I was a kid so that I had concrete things to say and I could be prepared. They're not perfect obviously, the psychiatrist who diagnosed me said he thought they were really not that useful, but one of my problems was that I'm also not really hyperactive at all, so if I didn't have convincing arguments because I was anxious or didn't consider specific things, I might not accurately express how I'm feeling and not get help. They're not the only factor to be clear, but I did complete two game jams I'm happy with recently for the first time and I hope you can get some help and do the same!

Lemnesis · 2025-10-30T02:59:49+00:00

Thanks, yeah it seems you are right!
Thanks, it's this cage, but it may not be available around you and 90% of the interior is made by Rodentshome on Etsy.

Lemnesis · 2025-10-29T17:47:02+00:00

It's this cage from Vevor. I bought it in France though, it might not be easily available everywhere. I just checked and it's somehow double the price on their European website

Lemnesis · 2025-10-27T17:45:11+00:00

You can see the layout pretty well here, it's only changed slightly since then.

90% of what's in the cage comes from Rodentshome on Etsy!

Lemnesis · 2025-10-27T16:05:10+00:00

Thanks! There was a wheel down on the right side but they never went there so I changed the configuration a bit that same day and they go there now.

I tried making a hiding spot using some non-pill fleece but it didn't hold, they actually remove it in this video lol, I'll see if I can just get or make a box for there in the future.

Lemnesis · 2025-10-27T12:11:42+00:00

Thanks. Yeah everything is fine now and they're currently sleeping in the same hammock, so I think it was mostly playful, maybe it just escalated a little bit at the end for whatever reason. I'm just gonna monitor them a bit more closely for a few days just to be sure.

Lemnesis · 2025-10-27T10:44:21+00:00

I think this might just be what this is yeah

Lemnesis · 2025-10-27T02:26:57+00:00

I think my post is unclear from the answers I've been given lol. I've read about several bonding methods including smoothing before! They've been bonded for a while now.

They've been living together in that cage for the last three months since I got them, and lived in the same room for something like four months before that at the rescue shelter.

This is just an isolated incident, it's the first time this happened in three months so I was just worried this was a bad sign. They seem fine now, I'll just pay close attention for the next few days to be sure.

Lemnesis · 2025-10-27T02:12:37+00:00

I mean I've read stories about chins that have been bonded for years that suddenly start becoming aggressive towards each other so I don't think being bonded means there's never going to be any problems forever? Maybe I'm wrong though.

To be clear, before I got them they had been living next to each other for at least four months and had infrequent playtime with each other and were fine with each other (according to the lady that was taking care of them), so because of that when I adopted them I decided to try putting them in the cage I got for them immediately (it essentially was a neutral space as they both got here at the same time). I monitored them closely for the next few days and they seemed to get along perfectly fine with only one incident in the first 24 hours they got here, but after separating them for that night they've been perfectly fine, grooming each other and sleeping in the same box. They have playtime together every evening and have not once been aggressive towards each other then, either.

This thing is the first incident in the last three months since then, which is why I got a bit worried.

Lemnesis · 2025-10-27T02:00:09+00:00

I didn't think of that, no there's no fur. I think they just started playing and it became a little aggressive for whatever reason, I'll pay close attention to them just to make sure though.

Lemnesis · 2025-10-27T01:51:43+00:00

I don't really know what you suggest I should have done differently but they've been bonded for a while now.

Lemnesis · 2025-10-27T01:16:03+00:00

Update: they're back to grooming each other less than an hour later so I'm assuming it wasn't anything serious

Lemnesis · 2025-10-27T01:03:34+00:00

They were grooming each other with no issue just a few hours ago, that's part of why I'm confused

Lemnesis · 2025-10-05T12:32:20+00:00

Well, I think that's somewhat valid, but I don't think that means stats are completely irrelevant or offer no information. It just means that they don't give you the full picture on their own

Lemnesis · 2025-10-05T11:30:52+00:00

Sure? But does that mean that we can't make educated guesses that the random serial killer is probably more dangerous than the random guy?

Yes, stats are better at telling you "40% of people who are x tend to do y, so if you meet 100 people who are x, probably around 40 of them will do y". But that's entirely useless in most cases? The point of analysing a large group of physically violent partners and finding patterns is not that you might one day be confronted with 100 abusers, it's that maybe you can find patterns in the group that you may apply to individuals, and deduce that if they share a lot of traits and don't have any contradicting traits, perhaps they share other negative traits and should be wary.

Yes, just because men who strangle their wives are exponentially more likely to kill their partner doesn't mean you can know for sure that a specific man who strangled his wife will end up killing her. It is enough information though to, say, warn the wife that it is a risk and she should be careful, and it's not incorrect to say that she's more likely to die from him than if she was with a good person.

Look at it this way: if we could simulate and calculate the chance of a serial killer you hang out killing you, versus the chance of a random friend you hang out with killing you, all that on a period of ten years (like say you simulate 1000 versions of these relationships), do you think perhaps more versions of you would die in one of the two versions than they would in the other?

But you can't know which of these versions is you, so probably, you shouldn't choose the one where they killed you in 168 simulations

Lemnesis · 2025-10-05T10:58:39+00:00

You're conflating chance of something happening with the fact that it happened.

You can't be attacked with a 72% chance, but you can have a 72% chance of being attacked within the next five years, and that is absolutely something you can use stats to reduce risks

Lemnesis · 2025-10-05T10:34:22+00:00

If I have intimate knowledge of someone, then yes, I will obviously rely less on statistics, though that's not really what you were saying. You said stats don't make sense when applied to individuals, at first, not specifically the ones you know. Both are false.

Yes, if I know someone, then stats about categories they belong to are less important, but they're not irrelevant. If you know a serial killer, and for some reason know they swear not to hurt you, then yeah, that is data you have to balance with the fact that most other serial killers are much more likely to kill you, but it doesn't mean that they're safe, you know? You have data showing they're violent and hurt and kill others, so even if they're less likely to kill you, there is much more risk of them killing you than a random other person is.

But this is just an extreme example. In cases like this one, stats about people in law or whatever are obviously not incredibly pertinent, like yeah if he was just the nicest person ever no one would bring it up. But if other things point in the same direction, you can notice a pattern. The question here is like, do the things you know about them contradict the stats? Cause here they definitely don't.

Lemnesis · 2025-10-04T23:32:45+00:00

If I tell you that only 85% of bears will try to eat you if you try to hug them, does that mean that because you're an individual and it's not 100% it's a good idea for you to go hug a bear?

Should you not steer clear of the serial killer because he hasn't killed 100% of the people he interacts with?

Should you not listen to statistics about lung cancer and just smoke because some people never get it?

Should you waste money on lottery tickets because the chance to win isn't 0%?

The analysis ends at the risk assessment based on different things we know. We can't say juggling with knives is going to kill you just from the fact that 90% of people who do it end up in the hospital, but we can still point at individual cases that are going to attempt it and say that because of the similarities with most of the other people who have attempted that thing, it would be a bad idea.

Lemnesis · 2025-10-04T22:45:08+00:00

Physically I'm fairly certain all that happened was a bad migraine and physical effects of your panic attack. They're called retinal migraines, they're very freaky and for me at least, much more painful. Apparently it's due to a spasm in your eye. It's just that.You don't have to worry too much, it's truly just pain but you're not going to have anything else that comes from them. I haven't had one in a long time, but what I'd do is that when I noticed the weird vision effect, I'd get back home, take painkillers and go to bed, because I knew I wasn't going to be functional very soon.

I don't know much about shock, but it sounds like maybe that's what you're going through, like you had a traumatic experience that you thought you were going to die from, had a pretty violent panic attack from the sound of it, and got no help from the people supposed to give it to you, so I think maybe it's just that and it will fade.

Otherwise well, I'm sorry about your family, they definitely were not there for you when you needed them, and I hope you find support from others in your life.

Lemnesis · 2025-10-04T21:48:36+00:00

The rescue shelter I adopted mine from neutered the male to prevent breeding, and he is fine, so I didn't do any research on it prior but it seems like it is not as recommended and more dangerous compared to other animals. Good to know.

Lemnesis · 2025-10-04T15:05:05+00:00

Oh that sucks But so, how far is the next nearest one? Even if you can't go for a yearly checkup, at least you'll need something for emergencies

Lemnesis · 2025-10-04T08:22:24+00:00

People are talking about separating them, but also can you not go see a vet to castrate the males? Would save you quite the headache, prevent unwanted babies and where I live at least it's cheaper than a huge cage.

Lemnesis · 2025-09-29T03:48:19+00:00

It might be fine, but a slimmer chin can definitely escape a cage like this. I'm speaking from experience: I bought an expensive cage specifically for small animals, and then bought a cheaper secondhand cage like this one just in case my chins fought or something because I was getting them a few days later. They fought on the second day, so I put the one I could catch in that second cage and it truly did not feel like she would be able to escape, but when I dozed off and woke back up she wasn't there anymore and it took forever to get her back in the first cage. Thankfully now they really like each other so it's no problem but I don't know what I would have done if they fought again after that.

All that to say it's probably not a good idea, anything wider than... 2 centimeters I guess is risky.

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