Down Here For Your Soul

As someone who has spent wayyyyy too many hours on the "simple" process of trying to make a jump good, I second this statement.

Simple, go into options and make sure "physics" and "gravity" are set to "on" There you have it, a perfectly weighty jump with the right height, horizontal drift, aerial maneuverability, speed, and landing. All these problems were already solved.

if i were a game designer, i would simply make the decision to make my game good, i don't know why more people don't do this,

just click the "good" button in unity or whatever

"and you just need to adjust some constants"

In any creative pursuit, I hear "can't we just..." and feel my spirit falling backwards into the unknowable sunless world to which ours is a mere veil

when a guy who makes 2.5x what I do and defines our collective deliverables despite not touching any business logic says "but that's how it works in Excel"

"why can't you fix this?" "we could, but an error was made earlier on in development that means fixing it would undo 3 months of work." "that doesn't make sense." "you're god damn right it doesn't"