Highly offensive Jonathan Blow clips to boost your productivity

[@zxxvcc]

LoFi opinionated senior programmer rants to study and relax to.

[@wisnoskij]

"It will be released to your mom. Tonight."

[@SunCurse-oy6fe]

lol

[@sergeysmyshlyaev9716]

2:12

[@youdontknowwhoiam2449]

@@sergeysmyshlyaev9716ty

[@halfsine]

the greatest "your mom" joke ever

[@LEOvsMAO]

Its gold😂

[@blenderpanzi]

So what I'm gathering is that people who write code with bad performance have great vacations involving cliff jumping.

[@shurbrrt]

Into ocean water

[@jessevos3986]

That is frigid

[@chrisc7265]

Jon has great vacations _with their moms_

[@StevenOBrien]

Yes, I hear those vacations are to die for.

[@laskdjf3880]

goodbye everyone lmao

[@robrick9361]

Jon Blow Jr. : "Daddy why does the computer get hot?" Jon Blow : "Because f*ck you."

[@ColtonCrawford]

😂😂😂

[@anow2]

first clip hits different after crowdstrike

[@nathansmith8187]

Was gonna comment the same thing.

[@backlogbuddies]

He may be rude but he's right about some of the stuff he says

[@vadzimdambrouski5211]

except crowdstrike is not open source, it's a closed source product

[@kelvinpina3392]

But it wasn't open source

[@seriouscat2231]

@@kelvinpina3392, that was not the point. The point was people who forego testing.

[@RudhinMenon]

Jonathan won't settle for a mediocre barista, he wants THE BARISTA

[@Matthew-uv4fq]

Dude’s blood pressure needs to be studied

[@6Pope9]

FR

[@probaddie456]

Understood, becoming a top 1% cliff diver

[@lukefidalgo8154]

old man yells at clouds

[@kactuskurt]

old man yells at the cloud

[@avery_IO]

old man yells at cloudflare

[@okie9025]

old man yells at himself

[@mamanjustwannabehedgehog2724]

man.

[@BistaNadig]

He's got nothing on our brother in Christ, Terry Davis.

[@nonefvnfvnjnjnjevjenjvonej3384]

they are both required. i wish more devs were like them instead of soyboys who write javascript and react

[@brianviktor8212]

@@nonefvnfvnjnjnjevjenjvonej3384 I am proud of what I programmed 3 weeks ago. It took me 2 months, and I created a client-server architecture and library for a game, which allows millions of players within a singular realm, scalable by adding physical servers that connect in a distributed system. It is also extremely performant and has server-side anti-cheat measures. Gemini rated it 11.5/10 in terms of difficulty, and I think it is the hardest thing I ever made. And I made quite some very hard projects already... like a program to create random RNG algorithms, evaluate them and pick the highest rated ones (best ones). Or oh, the game core itself, which allows for the game area to be the observable universe with cm precision, having solar systems loaded, unloaded, populated and depopulated as the player traverses in free flight through space, whereas everything is procedurally generated. I also have giant stars.

[@JohnSmith-dd3zi]

I ask myself every day "Is this too much voodoo for my purpouses?"

[@tanko.reactions176]

@@nonefvnfvnjnjnjevjenjvonej3384 he is equally a soyboy in the domain of graphicscard drivers.. its the same mess. there is no standard, everyone rolls with their own way and you, as the developer, have to glu them all together. and that is the same shit on the web. the web is a mess because of the exact same issue, its not a developer problem, its an industry problem. does not help that actual snowflakes tend to web development, so the issue gets conflated. his takes on web dev are right and wrong at the same time. and there is much more money on the web, than in game dev. there is no game that has beat platforms like youtube or google or amazon. learn web dev (the right way, dont be a soyslop), develop a SaaS product and escape the rat race. with game dev, you have to hit roughl 1mil and put all that money into a well diversified ETF in order to live from passive income, to escape the rat race. its much easier with web dev. once you have become a free man, you can switch over to game dev if that is your passion. but straight out shitting on web dev because of a few (or actually, many) bad apples and the whole industry being shit, is a non-nuanced, jaded/bitter approach. its not realistic. its fun to watch though xD

[@okie9025]

@@nonefvnfvnjnjnjevjenjvonej3384 i make websites only using C and HTMX using my custom buttplug-based controller scheme. In vim on arch linux of course.

[@HobokerDev]

Jon Blow is like David Goggins of programming. 😜

[@Zoronoa01]

amen to that!!

[@oussamaghrib4558]

Lmao

[@gmodrules123456789]

Completely delusional. You should be embarrassed to have even posted something like this. Goggins is actually accomplished. He has done real things that no other person on Earth has done. Blow made one good game, and acts like he's the next Linus Torvalds. There are thousands of good games. There are thousands of good indie games. Blow is not unique or special. Goggin's runs, while Blow just runs his mouth.

[@hatter1290]

If David Goggins were an incompetent moron, yes.

[@ryanleemartin7758]

Who's gonna carry the bits?!

[@hughtoons]

"We've almost done a full workday. Or 10 workdays for someone that works at facebook and reads hacker news." Damn 😂

[@davidxu9328]

Saved the vid to my meditation playlist

[@Skona99]

>Hates Unreal and Unity >Uses Adobe >Profit

[@ZahrDalsk]

Unlike Unreal and Unity, Adobe products are based and well-made.

[@okie9025]

@@ZahrDalsk its true, i was the badobe

[@n0xure]

@@ZahrDalsk Adobe is a patent troll

[@martiananomaly]

Adobe and based don't go together in the same sentence

[@ZahrDalsk]

@@martiananomaly Unless you do illustration, in which case the closest thing they have to a competitor is Affinity, but Affinity's not an actual viable replacement yet. Now, programming nerds don't do anything creative so they don't care if software works or not, but for those of us who do creative works we need software to work. Which means Adobe. Not fosstrash.

[@DemonSnakeBd]

I feel like this is the kind of guy who would argue going bald was more efficient for him

[@mryoung205]

😅

[@okie9025]

he's the type of guy to get fired from a FAGMAN company then claim they all suck and that he's actually better off

[@user-sb5vt8iy5q]

@@okie9025 They all suck and he's better off alone

[@DajuSar]

@@okie9025 Except in this case he is the type of guy to do and say that and to be actually correct

[@TimeTravelingFetus]

Aerodynamics

[@sagitswag1785]

Your cuts are so perfectly timed! Please keep posting these, these are the funniest shit on this site

[@gwills9337]

His Gen X snark loses its appeal when you find better adjusted mentors

[@plaidchuck]

Yeah hes like a walking 90s Simpsons character. Constant snark and passive aggressive behavior.

[@anthonyhughes8026]

Meh. I’m not concerned with the gift box or the means of delivery, only the gift.

[@myhandlehasbeenmishandled]

As someone that is much closer to gen x , than my millennial generation, I gotta say please stop with that BS. He is clearly spoiled asshole that was never put in his place. It has nothing to do with any generation. Or he has undiagnosed aspergers.

[@neonmidnight6264]

His performance sentiment is relatable and you should keep yourself safe

[@ethernet764]

Better adjusted mentors, such as?

[@XeZrunner]

1:00 Agreeing with him so much there! Genuinely annoying to see people specifically not care about performance to "make things better", but then things are both worse and slower...

[@Muskar2]

Me too, but I genuinely think much of the industry either doesn't realize that they're shooting themselves in the foot, or are just people who blindly follow those who don't realize it. So I think making objective tests that are publicly shared would help a lot. But there's so little incentive to do so. The minority of low-level programmers that exist most likely love their high job security, and the few companies where they're beating competition due to performance probably keep their programming style a company secret like almost all businesses do. Jon and his friends like to talk about it like it's obvious to abandon OOP, but ignores that many developers barely realize it's a possibility. When I got my degree I believed the gospel that low-level programming was much harder and less productive. Simply because it's true for writing machine code or ASM, so the extrapolation seemed true. I needed several years of professional OOP experience, a punch to the stomach and Casey calmly owning Uncle Bob on their Github discussion to really realize why I've subconsciously been loathing the current state of software ever since I started learning OOP. And the software performance was the easy one to get evidence of (except larger scale demonstrations), it's the productivity/maintainability/readability one that is harder to demonstrate. And I think it's because it takes time creating comparable projects that are sizable enough for simplicity winning over easy.

[@monad_tcp]

a programmer not caring about performance is like an engineer not caring about concrete strength

[@enneff]

There’s definitely a syndrome where developers overcomplicate simple things for performance reasons that don’t provide any overall benefit, but that is much more rare than the general case where most programmers simply don’t understand performance at all.

[@electrolyteorb]

Next.js

[@electric26]

​@@electrolyteorbyou had me at js

[@MrSomeDonkus]

In every interview and talk that he gives he always comes across so self reflective, intelligent, humble, and thoughtful. In everything outside of those talks and podcasts he seems the opposite. Its like when the people he is talking to or addressing arent people he can directly see and hear, he cant help but go full savage mode. He takes the whole involuntarily dehumanizing anon people over the internet to the next level. Seems like the kind of guy who would have crazy road rage.

[@petersansgaming8783]

He learnt a lesson I learnt way too late: having a genuine discussion with faceless people on the internet without knowing their persona/career/whatever is basically impossible.

[@MrSomeDonkus]

@@petersansgaming8783 True. I always start genuine, but as soon as something ive said has been dishonestly misinterpreted more than once, i dont take it personally and get angry, i just make fun of them. I will say that in this comment i think that i slightly exaggerated how angry mr blow gets at internet randoms. I think he just lets it get to him more than it would for a normal person is all. Its not egregious.

[@Lin_The_Cat_]

God I love how fucking flabberghasted Jonathan got when someone had the gall to ask him of all people what his thoughts on the WebGPU API was. There should be no reality where JavaScript is given free reign to access a computer's GPU.

[@brambasiel]

Most of people nowadays interact with software through websites. Times have changed.

[@samiscoding]

Does WASM mean you could have other languages that run in the browser if they can be translated to wasm? Just asked an LLM and it says yes, like C++

[@MichaelPohoreski]

@@samiscodingTranspiling has been around for a decade. See _Emscripten._

[@feralaca123]

Jonathan Blow talks about productivity but he has launched 2 games in 20 years. He is dismissive of webgpu, yet, Braid could probably run (with good perf) in a browser's canvas object. Note: don't get this wrong, I still think he is a programming hero.

[@globalincident694]

Strictly speaking, he also worked on several other games in that time. He is only credited as *director* on two games (assuming you count the anniversary edition of Braid as the same game as the original).

[@deadvirgin428]

What other dude said + both of those games are legendary.

[@chloerose458]

the more somebody talks about how things *should* be done, the less they actually do lol

[@declanprobably]

I strongly doubt the Braid comment. The particle effects in that game alone are beyond what it could even consider rendering, and that's not even considering the technicality of the time manipulation mechanics, including the real-time audio processing, etc. Also, why would we even want Braid to run in a browser's canvas object? Most of his issues with modern software/web tech are about the premise and not whether it works out.

[@globalincident694]

@@declanprobably Particle physics might be a problem, but you could always take those out. Time mechanics are essentially just dealing with a lot of stored memory, and are not particularly intensive. There is not too much audio processing - the audio speed changes but that's it, and changing the speed of audio is not particularly intensive.

[@ACoolYouTubeChannelName]

Jonathan Blow is Sean Strickland programming

[@codecaine]

😂

[@Heater-v1.0.0]

What a wonderful collection. Thanks.

[@LewisCampbellTech]

I don't know too much about this guy but as an older programmer this whole clip is just making me laugh.

[@slavko321]

He does some pretty cool, deeply technical stuff.

[@ebookjapan8054]

This would be motivation if he made more than one game every decade and didnt have incredibly thin-skin

[@buster9877]

LMAO

[@mxjokereh]

And if his games were better. Bro released a "good" game in 2008 for what was then a good game and can't stop thinking his above everyone since then.

[@whiteingale]

what do his skills have anything to do with yours? If you need motivation from youtuber, there is a problem with you to begin with.

[@emptycode1782]

@@whiteingale i mean he didn't say he needs motivation from a youtuber , you just assumed that.

[@yungoldman2823]

@@whiteingale The only person with problems is the one randomly accusing strangers on the internet

[@untimateds]

these are certainly the most jblow offensive clips ever collected

[@Muskar2]

How does this boost your productivity? Because you don't feel alone in hating modern software dogma?

Amen.

[@Muskar2]

I'm genuinely asking because I don't know. But upon reflection I imagine this is probably a tough love kinda thing, since he's compared to David Goggins.

[@tsessarsky]

Well, i'm not gonna lie, i make these titles more "clickbaity" so that the videos can get more views and clicks. The titles of these videos obviously parody the endless cesspool of "memes" videos with titles of similar format: "Memes that will make you X", "Memes that made me do Y". I often find myself falling down that stupid rabbit hole and in the end feeling more depressed and wondering "why did i watch this?". By naming these videos as such i'm making them more "accessible" if that makes sense. So you can relate, you know. So that you can stumble upon this video in the first place and it doesn't get drowned in the abyss of other vids that are so fiercely fighting for your attention. But I don't consider your attention or attention of others as something cheap, so I try to put meaning into these videos. And the meaning is not in the title, it's in the content. The gist of this video (or any other video i make for that matter) is pretty simple. Jonathan Blow being a very successful developer says "Software is in decline and stagnating." That statement in itself will already stir up some thoughts in you. I don't know how it works, but I believe that there's some secret mechanism by which watching Jon say things like that, you will involuntarily absorb his philosophy, his ideas, his habits even, and therefore get more productive in the long run. So even if this video doesn't increase your productivity directly, it will inevitably affect you in a way. I hope that makes at least some sense :)

[@tsessarsky]

@@Muskar2 btw, i have no idea who David Goggins is and why Jon is getting compared to him

[@Muskar2]

@@tsessarsky To me, I do like it when smart people are direct and have the courage to publicly say the controversial things they believe. But I still really dislike it when Jon is being elitist and not telling people the reasons for his beliefs so that they can evaluate it for themselves. Saying things like "if that's not obvious to you then you're banned" or generally disallowing "stupid" questions, makes me repulse them. I prefer the Carl Sagan type of person, who assumes the best in other people until the opposite is proved. And I think the inclusive approach is much better at dispelling dogma than arrogant elitism - because I think the appeal will be for his "choir" and for those who are really into tough love. The reason I have sympathy for Jon despite of me disliking him, is that it's obviously not his responsibility to fix the industry and to help everyone who wants to be helped. It's a tough job and it requires effort - effort he'd most probably rather spend doing work. Sometimes it frustrates me when he then goes making talks or participate in discussions on Twitter, because that tells me he wants to spread the message, but just don't want to do the work - or that he's in denial about the fact that he's probably actively hurting his own position from the general public's perspective. I mean, it's an efficient thing to do talks, but he's being a bit hypocritical about quality because he could spend a lot more time on actually understanding the modern software industry crowd first, and then providing the evidence to disprove it, rather than just making claims. And I still don't believe much of what Jon says. I believe many of the specific things he says about things he's done himself, but I don't believe many of his broader claims that sound more like conjecture than informed opinions. Especially when he's talking about people outside the game industry. Everyone is susceptible to cognitive biases like that, but it's just weird to me that the guy who made The Witness - which covers cognitive biases and logical fallacies - is often so unaware of them. -- I had neither heard of David Goggins but I looked him up and I gathered he's a motivational speaker who's into applying military discipline to your life to achieve very high goals - using aggressive language and looking down on mindsets that disagree with it.

[@zcizzorhandz5567]

I probably wouldn't work for Jonathan. BUT!!!! I agree with every word he said in this video, just wouldn't say it directly to hurt anyone's feelings.

[@lol6434]

Damn, i love this guy.

[@lifelover69]

i start my daily morning workout with this video to boost my mental

[@MochaRitz]

Between all the toxicity and the self righteousness, he has a point with people asking "How do I get into games?" being so separated from what they're apparently interested in, that it's laughable to think they would ever ship a product. There are people who work hard for years on end and still don't make it. If the barrier is a streamer answering your question, then you were never gonna make a game.

[@MorningNapalm]

There is also such a thing as starting at a humble place but ending up in a good one. I find his toxicity overdone.

[@olbluelips]

It sounds cynical but there’s truth to it. Asking “how to start” is a form of procrastination vs actually starting. Getting over this catch-22 determines your success in basically any hobby

[@ants7219]

getting started is literally by far the hardest part of learning programming / game dev and is probably the only point at which a future game developer would really NEED help. so yeah i guess not only are you wrong but you're basically the exact opposite of right.

[@bearmandev]

@@ants7219 I started by stealing a graphing calculator manual. It was extremely easy.

[@raychrash5139]

Dude, most of the people out there dont get immediately hooked on a hobby, its a pretty reasonable thing to ask about a hobby you have an interest in learning but no direction whatsoever, how else are you gonna develop the love for the field if people are as dismissive as Jonathan."CS Major is a waste of time" yet if people act like Jonathan to newcommers, uni would be the only direction one can have in the field

[@NickIsBlasted]

This is just what I needed before hopping into some JS, Jonathan would be proud

[@Fidolorous]

I need more of this

[@litadabula6120]

The Unreal/Unity question cracked me up

[@okie9025]

if he used a game engine he would still be making games

[@sporefergieboy10]

3:50 LTG Moment

[@marcusrehn6915]

Starting out with a game dev complaining that open source is not tested enough. That is hilarious to me. Jonathan makes solid stuff, but game devs in general vs open source in general, come on...

[@z4pp820]

he completely disowned extreme programming in one sentence interesting take to say the least

[@CostaBushnaq]

Did you play any of his games?

[@marcusrehn6915]

@@CostaBushnaq id say they are better than most, in terms of bugs. Do you disagree?

[@AROAH]

I love his work, but he must be absolutely unbearable to work for.

[@Imperial_Squid]

3:00 Jonathan "if you're a beginner fuck you" Blow, the incredibly normal and well adjusted man over here

[@alphachicken9596]

He said "If youre asking how to get started than fuck you." V different If you dont have the energy to do a google search and get yourself started then your idea is just a delusion, and the kind thing to do is to dispel illusions.

[@huehuehue-x3c]

If your first thought is to ask a streamer and not use a search engine like a well adjusted person who doesn't rely on parasocial relationships for socializing, you are not cut out for real life.

[@alergames147]

@@huehuehue-x3c What's so wrong with asking a real person for some basic guidance? Mfs just are negative for the sake of being negative

[@SPyoutube42069]

​@@alergames147 you're conflating asking an acquaintance for guidance with asking a public figure a question that's already been asked and answered countless times

[@satanos6]

​@@alphachicken9596 Comment so based it ascended you to sigmachicken9596 /s

[@lorenzozapaton4031]

It's just a programmer being a programmer. At least a programmer who wasn't touched by Rust.

[@mscholzdev]

what's the problem with Rust?

[@salce_with_onion]

@@mscholzdev 🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀

[@mscholzdev]

@@salce_with_onion wtf??????

[@lorenzozapaton4031]

@@mscholzdev >what's the problem with Rust? CoC

[@mscholzdev]

@@lorenzozapaton4031 thanks, crazy

[@iamarugin]

I think he would do well in Russia. People talk to each other this way all the time there.

[@midtst0v]

this guy is like the Norm Macdonald of programming

[@therealgunny]

Thanks for the productivity boost. I am now more productive.

[@suddenlee.9]

Jeez, what a legend!

[@villagewizard]

Knee has been slapped.

[@MarioVelezBThinkin]

"I mean I don't want them to die. They jump [off the cliff] into ocean water, that is frigid."

[@championsofodin9868]

Dude has his period 30 days out of the month

[@seriouscat2231]

These few short clips are taken from probably hundreds of hours of original content.

[@admrotob]

It's like he prophesized the Crowdstrike issue hehe

[@Cenot4ph]

This guy is a pro at being annoying

[@LagMasterSam]

A pro at being hilarious.

[@okie9025]

most tech influencers are

[@thomas-hall]

Love Jon so much

[@iestynne]

I feel extremely motivated right now. I think I'm going to listen to in my daily meditation.

[@DevDungeon]

Jonathon Blow is a younger Eric S Raymond

[@Alex-f3m4t]

Good start of the day

[@cisar2218]

Ok, I just found this guy thanks to this video and it's golden.

[@jhfcdgkxdhfk]

"These people don't get anything done" - guy who has been working on a souped up sokoban for a decade

[@redgek]

new lang, new compiler, new engine, new game for a decade

[@therealshug]

lmao. I'm glad I was recommended this video and learned about this guy...

[@Cammymoop]

This is what i put on to relax

[@tripplejaz]

I'm a visual artist but John inspires me. A fellow perfectionist.

[@TestChannelWow-bh7ys]

2 games in 20 years, how inspiring

[@tg5127]

Including one which could have been done in six months with Unity, even back then

[@cicadaknight3048]

I like how he projects himself on others by calling everyone 'mediocre' lol

[@tommapar]

How many games have you put out that even compare to his? None? Then I suggest you take your little fuck fingers you wrote this comment with, and shove them up your ass instead of opening it to spew your envy and stupidity on the internet..

[@FlamingZelda3]

@@tg5127 right, you gotta consider if what you're working on is worth the perfectionism. there's definitely a give and take between the quality of a product and how much you're willing to pay for that.

[@0x20pirate]

@@tg5127 Found the delusional non-developer who doesn't even know Braid was built on XNA framework, but thinks a version of unity that didn't even have UI or even 2D solutions would've had the game built perfectly in an afternoon 🥱

[@_slier]

Damn, im fucking burnt, but i like it

[@pixelotix]

This video isn't Phil Fish enough for me.

[@RhysWells]

spitting truths here

[@izzard]

I like this guy.

[@jeffgonis8975]

The best moment in this video comes at 3:21 where he rattles a bunch of elite universities as being the only places where you aren't wasting your time in computer science and then pauses for a moment and you can tell that the gears are grinding away and then he realizes "Oh shit I didn't go to one of the universities I just listed, which would mean I wasted my time!" and quickly throws in Berkeley at the last moment. Crisis averted! Of course despite Berkeley being one of 3(ish I guess we add CMU) universities in the world that is not a waste of time for CS (get rekt Oxford, ETH Zurich, TUM, U of Toronto, and Tsinghua among others), he still likes to talk about the terrible courses he had at Berkeley. Anyway, I thought it gave a pretty good insight into just how seriously you should take these rants.

[@paulonormie977]

Sure, but your insight is just stupid. First you said he's self-conscious about about wasting time on his university, then you said that he also rants about the quality of the courses at Berkeley, so it doesn't sound like he's particularly bothered about shit talking his education. It's fine to dislike the guy, you don't need to do creative writing on what he's thinking to justify it.

[@nicholasbailey6622]

Extraordinary level of psychoanalysis on a delay of speech so short I wouldn’t have noticed if it wasn’t for this dumb comment.

[@okie9025]

literally true. Ignore the 2 comments above

[@Happyduderawr]

I think its funny that he didn't correct himself and list about 200 more universities. Yes, most people who get a cs degree from a 2nd rate university can make something from it. It may not be working at OpenAI, but they can do something. What does J Blow propose that the 99% of cs graduates that didnt go to these 3 univerisities, i suppose? Im all ears to him telling kids how to live their life, lmao.

[@Happyduderawr]

​@@paulonormie977 These universities are all pretty similar in their courses really. They only start differing in major ways at the graduate level. He's right that Standard and CMU are prob the best for cs, but you can learn the exact same material at any other ivy league or 2nd rate university. Even the 3rd rate universities will teach the exact same things, but at a slower rate and less challenging problems.

[@teakettle7021]

Best response to “how do I get into game dev.” So tired of that question, and even more tired of people entertaining it.

[@kobzelfn9588]

That's seems like a relatively easy question to answer with just "Learn to use a search engine to research" and not dunk on the person's dream like that.

[@FoxFavinger]

Jon is great! Anyone who thinks he’s brutal needs to try out a blue collar job, or even a sales job, and see how you’re treated when you say dumb things.

[@anlcangulkaya6244]

this is fucking awesome

[@jumbo6498]

That was a lot of fun, guys! What was your favorite slur used in the video?

[@RaZziaN1]

I feel like Jonathan "rarely" talks about javascript

[@okie9025]

true, javascript and webdev in general definitely don't constantly live in his mind rent free, producing levels of salt and copium that could power a small city for 2 years

[@duckhuntergaming4713]

Superiority complex has his picture next to it on the DSM

[@itmeurdad]

Edgelords over 40 are SO badass!

[@aniketbisht2823]

holy shit, I never knew Jon had this side. I always thought he had some "strong" and seemingly contrarian views (most of them I agree with) but this I is golden. "Yeah, It will be released to your mom". LOL

[@doekewartena5729]

It's rare to see this side of Jon.

[@caspera3193]

1:50, reminds me of that stupid Simplex Noise patent

[@jaylong858]

When I was in high school I was always top of my class in math and in the gifted program. The other popular girls lectured me on how boys don't like girls who are good at math, and how I had to stop begin good at math (or at least pretend). Glad I didn't listen to them, and I was still popular, but didn't notice at the time, because I was too busy with my heavy class load.

[@coolguy69verycool]

Easily the best Jon Blow video I've ever seen

[@Apocobat]

I USE SVN

[@quangtube]

clearly crowstrike don't know how to code, they only know how to do security :D

[@budgetjim]

surprisingly motivating

[@jimnor8817]

This guy cried in dark room on camera just because Soulja Boy laughed at his game

[@danielgrayling5032]

"'I'm not a math person', fuck you" Could not agree more.

[@cthzierp5830]

Just imagine people equally proudly boasting to the world they have trouble reading

[@dziuaftermidnight]

Bro thinks he's Dave Mustaine of programming

[@PandemicGameplay]

This guy using SVN... LOL

[@ipponsuki]

RIGHT?!

[@enfy1337]

i love this

[@dynnard]

Hah these were all great.

[@speedos]

Man, I don't even like Jon Blow that much, but hearing him dishing "fuck you"s to random people in chat is quite satisfying

[@ThumpingThromnambular]

His answer about how you may not be cut out for making games if you ask it is pretty true. I speak as someone who consistently wants to get started, but I don't think i really have what it takes to make it. I can program ok and do a good job but game programming requires focus from someone who really wants to do it.

[@melancholia8826]

I feel like there are a lot of people who are not actually incapable, but just too anxious to start learning on their own, and so they keep asking meaningless questions, when what they actually need is a boost of confidence to start cooking. Blow doesn't entertain such possibility, or simply does not care. Besides, nobody should ever listen to Blow except experienced programmers who know exactly what they want.

[@cthzierp5830]

If you enjoy making games, or trying to, then keep fiddling and you'll get better at it. I understood the comment more as, if you enjoy photography then you'll be out on the streets or nature taking photos, not spending all day on forums discussing gear and Photoshop. So I don't think it's a diss of "if you need to ask you're probably not smart enough", we all gotta learn, rather "stop looking for shortcuts and just put in the work, skill will come". Source: 30 years in gamedev here

[@melancholia8826]

@@cthzierp5830The way you interpret it, I fully agree with the message. My point is that Blow could have definitely phrased that better than he did. Could have said "stop looking for shortcuts" instead of "just quit"

[@jupitersky]

At first I just kinda thought his takes were weird... but by the end I realized how absolutely BASED he is.

[@buster9877]

Man what a jerk. Why would anyone watch his streams? Braid was cute but short lived and although I really like The Witness It’s nowhere near my top favorite games (and he didn’t develop it he designed it). I’d rather watch someone who can produce various performant games and isn’t so smug about stuff like “knowing math”. Who cares! Seeking perfection is what not to do programming 101. Maybe Jai will take over the scene whenever that comes out. Kind of excited for that but who knows if it’ll release in our lifetimes :P

[@roadent217]

"Maybe Jai will take over the scene whenever that comes out." I feel it should have been out 5 years ago already.

[@EM8844]

need a part 2

[@notuxnobux]

00:00 this aged badly now with crowdstrike

[@ExtraChannel-yk5pf]

Whenever you have pgrogrammer block, what this.

[@okie9025]

whenever i start thinking webdev isn't that good and want to branch out, I watch people like jonblow and get reminded how miserable and insecure these people are, and i go right back into working on my toy project using toy languages like js and toy frameworks like react and actually get paid

[@BADGRAPHIX]

What a based man not afraid to speak the truth

[@jacobstamm]

“Being an asshole is my entire personality” seems like it would get old after a few hours

[@highestsettings]

Its honestly refreshing in a world where people continually pretend to be nice. The thing about someone who will be an asshole to your face is that at least you know they're telling you what they really think. I mean there's a balance, some people are dicks just to be dicks. But this is clearly just coming from a place of authenticity and passion. Something that is sorely lacking lately. I'd much rather hang out with him based on this video than you based on your comment.

[@jacobstamm]

@@highestsettings I’m devastated

[@highestsettings]

@@jacobstamm And that's the kind of predictable reply that I would expect. I'm sure Jon Blow is losing sleep over your comment too.

[@jacobstamm]

@@highestsettings Okay

[@alejandrovalenciadiaz7012]

hes just being honest

[@Optimus6128]

I've never seen the correlation of "low level coding"=="slower development and more bugs" or "high level abstraction"=="faster and more safe development". Usually you see software that is both slow as f*** and buggy like hell. Meanwhile some classic software from the past that were written in C or low level assembly, work remarkably well and do the job. The "pick any two of three: fast, small, easy to understand" is a myth.

[@TurntableTV]

I'm not a programmer but I know where he's coming from with these takes. Extremely hilarious.

[@KushLemon]

Yeah, keep telling that to yourself, till you are at the receiving end. Some people are just broken.

[@okie9025]

makes sense that only non-programmers agree with people like him lol

[@MarcinGomulak]

dude acts like our Lord Terry A. Davis... This is truly delusional

[@WalkthroughHorde]

lowkey think you're a loser if you discourage new people interested in game development because you are annoyed at getting the question a lot. don't take questions or some shit then because naturally you'll get those questions, and that is a valid question. for many game designers, actually getting a software, opening it up, and making a level or coding some shit and getting something down is the first major hurdle in a game development journey. the second big hurdle will be keeping the drive to continue with it to actually complete it. the third big hurdle is actually making a second game. this guy made a hit indie game when there were VERY FEW serious indie games. he is very successful, and he likely is now a better programmer than I ever will be. but in these clips you see the side of him that is just a whiny pretentious boomer

[@linewizard]

KingCobraJFS if he started programming

[@olbluelips]

Lol this makes me happy

[@the_dark_byte]

Absolutely based takes. 😎

[@deadspace4755]

The second clip, with learning unreal or unity. What's the context? l want to see the original source, do you have it? l need to see more of him to understand

[@xyz.anonymous]

Learn an actual programming language is the context

[@okie9025]

@@xyz.anonymous oh like c# and c++? Great languages to use in unity or unreal.

[@Infernal_Puppet]

Jonathan Blow writes his own game engines, and made his own programming language for the game he's been working on. So probably the last guy to ask which commercial engine to use.