Hey now. Searching stack overflow circia 2011 to 2018 was an Art. You had to know enough to find the correct question that wasn't deleted because a mod thought it was a duplicate of another question

[–] kautau@lemmy.world 21 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Also to find the actual correct answer three comments down because the one that was voted highest worked, but was actually a really shit way to do the thing being asked

[–] milkisklim@lemm.ee 12 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I often found the correct answers in the comments of an answer

[–] lord_ryvan@ttrpg.network 2 points 9 months ago

Still do.

[–] wise_pancake@lemmy.ca 5 points 10 months ago

After a while you got know which stack overflow questions were a waste of time, and you used that knowledge for years.

[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

Before that you had to hang out on flipside or other gamedev sites and show your worthiness before begging for information.

I was so proud when they shared the DS hack (basically a homebrew SDK made by trial and error by some people) so that I could make small games on it.