To be honest I think a large amount of people posting in game dev spaces about how they hate making games are just trying to vent temporary frustration with the process with ironic jokes rather than actually despising the craft. Everything you said about the underlying expectation of “industry products” is some real fucking shit though. “You will always be the exception” hits so good
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yeah there's absolutely nuance here that me being mad on a monday evening doesn't give credit to. the natural cycle of doing any art project where you fall in and out of love because you love the medium that much. but even with this there's still so many people i talk to conflating craft with industry production and then looking at me like i have two heads when i say i completed a game jam last week because i wanted to do that. everytime it reminds me to spend more time around freaks