at some unknown point in development we had to rotate all the meshes 90 degrees before importing them or else they were offset. Later in development it mysteriously vanished and we didn't have to rotate the meshes anymore. Old rotated meshes continued to work fine unless you reimported them at which point they were offset wrong. No one will ever know why any of these things happened
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software development is basically the same except you'll have to mobilize one to three engineers for several months to figure out why it happened because if it happens again in the wrong way it'll cost millions of dollars
I really hope someday we get an eyewitness account of how EXACTLY nintendo decided to flip Twilight Princess' entire coordinate system at the last minute
this would drive me mad
i would spend a year doing nothing but trying to figure it out
i would not be able to ship a game and would get kicked out of the gamedev club
Oh the biggest reason I think curses exist in the computer age. They're in every dev cycle and it drives me fuckin wild
i 100% believe in computer curses, every computer i've ever had has developed some kind of persistent annoying quirk, often ones that wouldn't even be resolved with a factory reset. probably a technically-explainable consequence of variables crashing into each other in a way i'd be unlikely to ever put two and two together on, but any sufficiently advanced annoyance is indistinguishable from a curse imo
At some point my computer decided that some really specific programs (steam, cookie clicker, streamlabs, settings) would randomly only work at literally and exactly 2 FPS. I formatted my computer and updated the OS to windows 11 (yeah, I know), and nothing changed.
Except one day it just stopped and I never had this problem again. 
LOL somehow it's kind of worse when it Just Stops Happening. like. it's good that the problem is gone. but not knowing what caused it or what stopped it is very... cosmic horror. like oh good. i was of no consequence. my actions and feelings were irrelevant. this was just going to happen
This is just using other people's libraries in general.
Best is when you report a bug, and they say it can't be fixed for backward compatibility reasons, as people may have created work arounds which would break if fixed.
Just make a new library call: Library.ImportButNotWeirdAboutIt()
I can't explain it, but part of this is why I love game development.
solo dev is very similar except i will spend a week and a half absolutely figuring out why those things happened. then when i find out i'll go "ah" and nothing will be different
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