ffs

[Cranky Old Man]

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If it helps, it's not they who are stupid kids. It's you who are awesome.

Also, while I wish that every internet forum would be like a place like Cheers, where everybody is on your level and thinks like you, in reality every internet forum will be diverse enough to the point where it will just be a giant mess surrounding a small common goal. As far as I know, nobody has made a "Mature, No PDP, Amnesia Mappers Club" (or MNPAMC for short) but that's the natural next step. The FG forum is bare bones, about mapping, without any quality control. In the HL2 community, this caused sites like Planet Phillip to sprout up, which focuses on QUALITY mapping. Just a thought, I guess.

And this is why HL2 modding became shit generally, because nobody was there to teach the new people how to become better, resulting in shit mods which improve very slowly. This community is nothing like that and people like Statyk, Acies and others always try and help newbies. Segregating the community would RUIN the community, like it has with nearly every other case. And if everyone is on YOUR level, and thinks like YOU, then there would be no point playing maps as there would be very little innovation.

There's a whole Source wiki dedicated to teaching the new people how to become better, with too many "newbie mapping tutorials" on it (because every newbie comes on there and starts writing a new one, without bothering to check if one already exists).
That's actually the problem, because the easier development becomes, the less talent is required to make something, so the more untalented people get onboard. Less help equals more quality.