[omegaham]

I read his snark as being self-deprecating. Rather than insulting the Mario devs, (who, as you note, are building a ground-breaking game on a deadline) he's making a joke about how obsessive someone would have to be to dig deep into a 26-year-old game's codebase and hardware internals in order to get acceptable performance on a mod that does things to the game engine that the devs had no intention of implementing.

Thanks for providing more context for what's going on - all of this stuff is neato.

[midnightclubbed]

I guess I got the snark from things like this... "I don't fault them for making MOST of the mistakes, C was a rather new language at the time, they didn't know the hardware they were working with and EVEN programmers in 2022 would make many of these MISTAKES. Besides you either get to know about these things or spend time learning about these things or you get to go out and touch grass it's an either or, you can't do both".

Emphasis mine.

He regularly trashes the quality of other people's code in his twitter https://twitter.com/KazeEmanuar/status/1343569532976304131 despite building his following off the years of work of those same people.

[wtetzner]

Yeah, he definitely comes off as an ass in that thread of Tweets.