I still remember playing StarCraft 2 shortly after release on a 300$ laptop and it running perfectly well on medium settings.

Looked amazing. Felt incredibly responsive. Polished. Optimized.

Nowadays it’s RTX this, framegen that, need SSD or loading times are abysmal, oh and don’t forget that you need 40gb of storage and 32gb of ram for a 3 hour long walking simulator, how about you optimize your goddamn game instead? Don’t even get me started on price tags for these things.

Software and game development is definitely a spectrum though, but holy shit is the ratio of sloppy releases so disproportionate that it’s hard to see it at times.

Maybe not you personally but whoever sees this and thinks “hey maybe I can try” this is to encourage them to take that first step

If you’re one of the ones that are already trying, all I can say is continue to persevere, seldom does it not yield results, even if not necessarily noticeable at a moments glance

The beautiful thing about the fediverse is that you can be the change you want to see in the world

Also works as aromatherapy.