8bitpimp

I spent around 5 years crippled by this very issue, to the point where I was so lonely I was terrified of any social contact, and close to not wanting to continue. It took just as long to 'recover' from this very real issue. You are in no way alone with this issue, and I think is really felt throughout the IT industry.

The way I am learning to overcome my loneliness and social anxiety issues, is be forcing myself to go out with people when I am invited, and to exercise (perhaps to the extreme) with cycling, climbing, swimming, running, etc.

Remember however that loneliness is not something that anyone else can solve other then yourself. You may need to change your situation, and surround yourself with people similar to yourself, and understanding kind people if possible.

As others have said loneliness is a problem of situation, and lack of contact with others. Your absolutely doing the right thing by reaching out and talking about it however!

I have converted the presented algorythm to a non-recursive yielding version for what its worth:

https://gist.github.com/8BitPimp/fb182d04f6c31cabdceb20f714b...

If you look at main.cpp the vertex and framgment stages are abstracted via IShader, which also handles passing data between them. This emulates the programmable pipeline.

I wrote a software implementation of OpenGL with the only goal of being able to play Quake3 using it. I can vouch that it is an amazing learning experience. The tutorial here doesnt seem to aproach the issues of performance however, which really are another learning experience entirely.