sometimes people will take my "block game must run acceptably on a potato computer" and link me youtube videos (like https://youtu.be/40JzyaOYJeY) which i've usually already seen and go "you should do all of those nifty optimizations"
the thing is that i'm not trying to make a hyper optimized engine for a cool youtube video, i'm trying to make an actual game, so i actually have to trade time and complexity against performance
