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noun
A physics engine setting that forces developers to speculate for weeks about mysterious collision bugs, when the solution was literally just setting it to 0.0 the whole time.
The amount of time you'll spend debugging phantom collisions before discovering this setting.
A physics engine setting that forces developers to speculate for weeks about mysterious collision bugs, when the solution was literally just setting it to 0.0 the whole time.
The amount of time you'll spend debugging phantom collisions before discovering this setting.
"Dude, I spent a month debugging microbumps in my voxel game. Turns out it was just Speculative margin. I'm never trusting physics engines again."
"My player kept bouncing on flat surfaces and I thought I was losing my mind. Classic case of Speculative margin syndrome."
"My player kept bouncing on flat surfaces and I thought I was losing my mind. Classic case of Speculative margin syndrome."
by lewade April 12, 2026
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