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Please don't disagree with the moderator, you will get banned. This guy is out for heads, and I do not want anyone to be harmed simply because I asked for assistance.

No he won't. And I don't believe you're in any real danger yet, either. I don't see anything in Zahlman's post that threatens a ban. Or even that he's posting in his capacity as Mod. Moderators post on these fora all the time, just like regular users. So he finds an argument you made pedantic. Honestly, I wouldn't find that terribly insulting were it said about me or something I'd said. I'm not yet close enough to perfect to avoid occasional pedantry. But if you kept reading Zahlman's post, he goes on to answer your question and offer advice, which you seem to have missed or ignored.

I'm sorry you got offended, but this is the Internet—it helps to have thick skin. I'm not defending any perceived offense caused earlier in this thread, but having read the thread I don't see it as being seriously offensive. What I consider to be more egregious is that you replaced all your posts in this thread with essentially useless text. GD.net is a major resource—I sometimes find a forum thread from months or years ago that pertains to my problem. It's quite plausible that someone else will have the same question in the future, and now any usefulness this thread might have had or developed is greatly diminished. Still, I don't consider it ban worthy—just discontinue the practice, please.

Double post.

Please close/delete this thread.

Seems it could be more educational left as-is. As programmers we have to work in the real world, with real people who have ups and downs, good days and bad days, and do clever things and stupid things. Such is life - we suck it up and keep moving forward.

*wanders through the graveyard*

I respectfully disagree with the highlighted portion. It's not at all easy to transition from an intermediate level programmer to a game designer. Even experienced programmers might find this transition hard, because basically the concepts behind programming games are totally different from general programming principles learnt in schools, colleges, at work and through books. There are too many things to learn and the process is overwhelming to say the least.

Game programming is a separate field in itself. I think there is a knowledge gap which is not addressed by a lot of books which purport to do this. Which is true to some extent.

I have to agree. While it certainly is possible for a skilled programmer from another field to self-discover the details of game programming from first-principles, it is not a trivial task. Even with help, it takes a lot of experience in that specific field of programming error before really grokking the principles.

I say this because I have experienced that difficulty first-hand, and I continue to face it. The knowledge, patterns and designs required can be very different.

It was killed, by me.

He made a report about this thread, which I was fully intending to look at, but as he decided to deface it making proper investigation impossible and then moan about things I decided to clean up.

He was banned for his actions in this thread, as clearly he has no intrest in being part of the community and thus I afforded him the chance not to be, and with the OP banned I saw no point in continuing that thread either.

This thread is also being closed.