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andsoitistoday at 9:52 AM1 replyview on HN

> Do you make it a habit of shitting on other people hobbies? Maybe I should try doing the same! Lets go:

> The toxicity of the game community of constantly shitting in something they can't do and can't understand needs to fucking stop.

In your rage, I think you replied to the wrong person maybe?


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whstltoday at 9:53 AM

Definitely not.

Replying to the trope that exists in gamedev that "making the game is the only valuable thing, people who make engines are just making excuses".

> Firing up godot/unity/unreal eliminates an entire universe of reasons for why you haven't shipped more content today

Not everyone wants to "ship content".

> brutal exposure when you don't have a creative vision to follow

Also assumes everyone must have or follow a creative vision.

EDIT: And yeah, I'm tired of people collectively shitting on other people's project in HN without even looking at it, or without considering why not having monocultures is good.

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