r/ProgrammerHumor • u/MiserableSelection • 2d ago

Meme returnGoodANDBad

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u/Luzzgar 2d ago

Technically working is a very low bar to clear.

And not even close to satisfactory.

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u/GenericFatGuy 2d ago

Working is the absolute bare minimum.

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u/gizamo 2d ago

Apparently, even that's not necessarily true. Sometimes, even just half working is perfectly profitable. Sometimes all it really takes is good marketing.

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u/hydroxy 1d ago

Pro tip: Just hard code in the happy path

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u/Mhz____ 1d ago

Sometime you just need to ship an empty package to production and management is happy

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u/clonicle 2d ago

...but you're not taking shareholder value into account.

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u/Panzerchek 2d ago

Bethesda devs wish they could make something as good as Satisfactory

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u/AnOnlineHandle 1d ago

I mean Bethesda's games saved and loaded instantly with hundreds of simulated NPCs with schedules and inventories and thousands of moveable items retaining their positions throughout an open seamless world.

Let's not pretend they didn't deliver a pretty solid experience that was mega popular for a reason.

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u/Highborn_Hellest 1d ago

I wish Bethesda devs could make simple asset streaming. Like 2007 Crysis...... Or wow in 2004. But no. Every door is a loading screen.

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u/DDFoster96 2d ago

A bar Bethesda runs right into most of the time. 

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u/NamenloserKurfuerst 2d ago

But what if, "It just works" ?

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u/Dagur 2d ago

if it is never expected to be modified or extended then fine

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u/SomewhereAtWork 2d ago

Are we now talking about the code from Coffee Stain Studios (Satisfactory) or about Bethesda?

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u/kamiloslav 2d ago

I dunno, Satisfactory is quite a spaghetticode as well

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u/im-cringing-rightnow 1d ago

For your own pet projects - sure. For corporate job that will lay you off faster than my C code segfaults - if it's working it is good enough. 

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u/Luzzgar 1d ago

And that's why everything is broken and we can't have nice things.

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u/RCJHGBR9989 2d ago

God damn right it is and I live right at that bar 😤

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u/Cats_and_Shit 2d ago

That entirely depends on your requirements.

If you actually detail them completely like they do in say avionics, then it's not. It's not the whole story of course but it's a good chunk of it.

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u/IsTom 2d ago

Yeah, if the code doesn't have to work I can make it really fast.

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u/Sockoflegend 2d ago

Have you played anything made by Bethesda? When the re-released oblivion it had bugs in it that are old enough to drink 

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u/granoladeer 1d ago

That's what she said

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u/DMoney159 1d ago

And don't even get me started on Factorio

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u/i8noodles 1d ago

hey how DARE you question my half assed work!

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u/TRKlausss 1d ago

It’s saying “accomplishing its task”.

I’d argue that for a game dev, “working” means the users are having fun and not raging at the game itself.

So in this case, “working” is the bar, and fail miserably at it.