Lol, no it wasn't. It was the place where the lowest-common-denominator ended up. My experience on more niche, tailored servers has been wonderful for thoughtful discussion and avoiding useless flame wars.
digitalnuisance
The Muppet Movie.
Kermit the Frog.
post-neighsal drip
Reddit comments have always been insufferable, this is just a 2025 makeover.
Dumb and annoying is worse.
I mean, some of the most experienced and successful devs in the world are telling you (some random guy) these things bluntly in the article, and you are proving their point for them by acting how you're acting.
Congrats on being a sentient stereotype with a keyboard and access to the internet, I guess?
The sane among us tried. We really tried, man. We were up against every gigantic corporation working together coupled with said corporations inducing brain drain over the past 50 years due to cutting funding. This is the inevitable result, despite our best efforts. Not having fun over here, either.
This is cool! How did you make this?
The amount of bad takes South Park has had over the years is astounding.
AAA gamedev here. I agree in principle with the gamefeel critiques, but I'd like to bring up that scale absolutely matters here. Every degree of complexity your codebase adds can cause cascading issues, which is one of the million reasons indie devs are told by everyone to keep their game scope small. Not saying these kinds of games shouldn't improve, but it's not as trivial as it might appearr.
How dare you cheer on the alien from "Alien" dying at the end of the movie. She was a mother!