Riddler
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The consequences of bad code are hard to evade. If your game crashes, or softlocks, or renders garbage to the screen, or plays at 5 frames per second, you can't just dismiss that as an opinion. But the consequences of bad writing are easier to mask with appeals to subjectivism. "The writing is fine, you just don't get it."
This happens with everything and it drives me insane. People like something and suddenly all individual aspects of that thing become good or amazing. You get into internecine arguments about the quality of the music or writing in a movie or a game only to realise that your interlocutor has the mental capacity of a slug and can't distinguish between their personal enjoyment of a product and the quality of its constituent parts.
Only how do you convince someone that a part of their favorite toy is only mid? It's impossible and they'll twist themselves apart trying to justify their biases.
It can happen with anything, like when you've had a really good time at a restaurant and someone starts going on about how incredible the wine was when it was just adequate. The overall experience might have been amazing but that doesn't magically turn the wine in particular into fucking ambrosia.
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