Retro Ms Paint Coding Frustration

A deliberately crude, hand-drawn MS Paint–style illustration in the spirit of early-1990s home computer art. Flat colours, jagged mouse-drawn lines, visible pixel stair-stepping, no anti-aliasing, uneven fill-bucket areas, naïve proportions, and slightly wrong perspective. The scene shows a developer sitting at a bulky beige 1990s desktop computer terminal on a simple desk, drawn with thick black outlines and obvious, clumsy colouring. The developer is coding, staring intently at the screen. On the monitor is an unmistakably old MS Paint window with classic Windows UI, containing a drawing of another developer at a bulky beige 1990s computer terminal, coding MS Paint. Inside that monitor is yet another MS Paint window showing the same scene again, recursively repeating into the distance, each iteration smaller, simpler, and more pixelated than the last. The room is cartoonishly minimal: a badly drawn chair, a wonky desk lamp, a rectangle window, and a sad little plant. Text looks typed with the MS Paint text tool and is uneven or slightly misaligned. Limited flat palette only: beige, grey, off-white, black outlines, harsh blue and green.