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> You can read 1000 praising comments, but if just one of them is bad, it will ruin your whole day. It's important to quickly get desensitized to this, because
by reitzensteinm 14y ago
> You can read 1000 praising comments, but if just one of them is bad, it will ruin your whole day.
It's important to quickly get desensitized to this, because if you're even moderately successful, the volume of YouTube quality feedback directed at your very own pride and joy can quickly become overwhelming.
The really mean stuff never bothered me, nor the comments that seemed like they were Markov chain generated.
My biggest weakness was always idiocy - and trust me, I picked the wrong profession for that. Comments in the form of:
Great game! (rating set to 1/5)
Clone of [shitty clone of my game]
How do you shoot??? (rating set to 1/5) (game has no weapons)
[complaint about another game on the front page that day] (rating 1/5)
Got [incredibly low score]!!! (game has global high score functionality)
I bought this where do I download (game not for sale)
Unfortunately from memory, since I don't save any of it. But you get the idea.
- michaelgrafl 14y agoThose are really funny. There should be a website aggregating stuff like this. It would cheer me up. And yes, if you're doing any kind of work that you pour your personality into, you need to develop a rock-steady sense of self-esteem, or it will destroy you.
- MichaelJW 14y agoYou may enjoy this animation of a dramatic reading of a bad review: http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/558516 http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/558516
- michaelgrafl 14y agoI laughed, although I might have seen it before. Reminded me of the Weekend Web series on Something Awful, so I went there and watched a few. They're funny, but almost too crass for my taste (so I won't post a link here). I guess I'm getting old. Jesus, the stuff I watched as a youngling!
- hugoc 14y agoHere: https://plus.google.com/106913700595933476859/posts https://plus.google.com/106913700595933476859/posts
- incision 14y ago>My biggest weakness was always idiocy - and trust me, I picked the wrong profession for that. If you're an Android developer: 1/5: Unstable garbage. Constantly force closes on my overclocked phone running nightly builds - patched over with a custom kernel. Review systems are a pretty interesting problem that can't seem to evolve beyond "1-5 stars, maybe a blurb". I'm sure it's quite a delicate game to juggle engagement, filtering, averaging and all.
- hugoc 14y agoAnd the app had to be sideloaded because Play said it was incompatible with my device. Sigh, but we can laugh about it: https://plus.google.com/106913700595933476859/posts https://plus.google.com/106913700595933476859/posts