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[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (2 children)

"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%20is%20credited%20with%20the,than%20to%20answer%20a%20question.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

That is called the Streisand effect.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

That's not-

Wait a minute. Ha, you almost had me, you sly dog.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

My favorite part is a little after where he says he never said that

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Game forum is the worst, every game forum I've visited gives me a glimpse of the people who end up in hell

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Googling the question. top links is always, always the question being answered by : google it.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

that is not the same thing at all

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

skill issue

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Oh man you got a lot of TILing to do. Lots of lore

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

It would be more appropriate if the Imperium replied with the Navy Seal Copypasta.