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Re:Why video game doors are so hard to get right [video] by burnished on Monday September 06, 2021 @02:09PM (#28436387)
Sounds like you'd benefit from giving it a try. I'm going to go out on a limb here; you're at that stage of your life where everything you haven't tried sounds simple and you don't understand why other people struggle so much. I'm guessing this because on hearing that something is difficult your first suggestion is to.. simply design a class, and then suggest that the problem resides in the kinds of people approaching the problem.

Its a sort of arrogance that I think will be familiar to many people. But it sort of assumes that other people are too stupid or incompetent to try <insert obvious easy solution>. You might do better by trying to figure out what went wrong with the 'obvious' solution, or what you are missing in your own understanding that makes the problem appear so much simpler. If you figure out novel solutions, great! That's real genius. I think mostly you'll find out how tough most problems are.

Re:Why video game doors are so hard to get right [video] by dharmab on Monday September 06, 2021 @02:19PM (#28436461)
Thank you for writing up a clear headed response. I had started to write a response to the comment, but decided I didn't know a way to phrase it in a way that would be constructive and decided not to submit.
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Re:Why video game doors are so hard to get right [video] by scrollaway on Monday September 06, 2021 @03:22PM (#28437019)
Ah, you’re one of those people.

Sounds to me like the person you’re replying to had you perfectly figured out. If you’re lucky one day you’ll get to look back on this comment in regret. If not, you’ll keep living in ignorance.

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Re:Why video game doors are so hard to get right [video] by jcelerier on Monday September 06, 2021 @03:47PM (#28437250)
for someone without regrets your comments sound awfully bitter