I guess I’m just lucky, but I’ve gotten nothing but thoughtful support on Arch forums and Stackoverflow. If you read the article How do I ask a good question?, it works very well. It seems harsh but coming with poorly thought out questions without debugging details makes it impossible to help.
Googling the question. top links is always, always the question being answered by : google it.
Made the mistake of asking for help on a game’s discord (the developers had wiped my save data including premium currency because they migrated to a new account system and I didn’t catch it in time)
Surprised how eager people are to shit on each other even when it’s on behalf of a company that will screw them over in a heartbeat
Game forum is the worst, every game forum I’ve visited gives me a glimpse of the people who end up in hell
The type of people you encounter on game forums are not representative of the games because who tf spend their entire day waiting for one person to post about an issue just to shit on them
I want to be able to say it is copium, where they want to do well but are just hiding the truth from themselves how predatory the game would be.
But I cannot, bc some people in the world really truly are like that. Sometimes they make games and sometimes they merely play them.
“The best way to get the right answer on the Internet is not to ask a question; it’s to post the wrong answer.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ward_Cunningham#:~:text=Cunningham is credited with the,than to answer a question.
My favorite part is a little after where he says he never said that
That is called the Streisand effect.
Don’t ask a question. Make the title “Hey look at this cool way to do X” and do it wrong, and hope someone corrects you.
I prefer the tau version
Which?
It would be more appropriate if the Imperium replied with the Navy Seal Copypasta.
Oh man you got a lot of TILing to do. Lots of lore
