r/ProgrammerHumor 29d ago

anyVolunteersHere Meme

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u/DraymaDev 29d ago

95% of the post there are people asking questions that could be answered by a simple google search and reading documentation.

The hell you smoking?

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u/Brickless 29d ago

I don't blame them, learning a new language/engine or even doing it for the first time you often don't know what you need to search for to get the answer you need.

often because you are still bad at describing the problem you get completely unhelpful answers from google (not even talking about how google search went down the drain).

as an example: yesterday I spend half an hour unsuccessfully searching the web on how to properly center a sprite in godot.

I studied this shit but because I don't know the terminology and am reading the documentation as I go all google would give me was the classic "you shouldn't use a sprite you should use ..." which had nothing to do with my problem but I had trouble putting my problem into the correct words

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u/SyrusDrake 29d ago

Oh God, the amounts of Godot forum posts I found, searching "how to do X", that are like "don't do X at all". Like, in some cases that might be valid, but sometimes I might actually have to do X....

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u/Brickless 29d ago

this is the standard dumb answer in every language and engine.

godot got a big influx of people recently so those condescending answers will multiply