Tell me if this makes sense to you

So I got a game on Steam, in the game you need to get a job as a fast food worker to make money. So in the game, one of the items you put on the burger is "lettuce" well the guy who made it had it spelled, "lettuse" or something like that. There were a couple other spelling errors I noticed, so with me being extremely good at spelling words I reached out to the developer and offered, for free, to go through and fix any word errors.

The developer responds with how great it would be, yadda yadda yadda. So I'm like, okay so let me take a look at what you have so far and I'll fix it all for you. He goes, "oh, you just gotta play the game and any words you see spelled wrong, just let me know and I'll fix it"

I don't think he understood that it would have only taken me a matter of minutes to go through and find all the misspelled words and fix them for him. I get that, okay he's probably either A) not willing to just randomly give anyone access to game code or B) has his own thoughts about how to fix the spelling errors.

So I do get all of that. That's why you have a backup of the entire game, so in case you do get someone claiming to be helpful when they aren't you have a failsafe at least. I dunno, it just didn't make any sense to me. Like, I'm not so great at every single game in the world, so I might not get very far in the game to being with, and that's what I was trying to get to but I honestly don't think he understood what I was trying to convey very well.

He did however fix the misspelled words I came across, but there's no way I was able to get very far into his game unfortunately. So it makes sense in the fact like, I'm not just going to hand things over, but it doesn't make sense to say, oh just play the game to get all the misspelled words. At least that's what I think anyway.

Like if we'd gotten to know each other, and maybe he knew me better, I would have been all for that.

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Quimliqer · 70-79, M

Pretty tough to hand over the keys to the kingdom to someone you don’t know!

twiigss · M

@Quimliqer But it wasn't even that. I said, well you can just make a copy of the script in notepad, send the copy to me, I'll make all the adjustments, send you the copy back and then you input the changes I made, and that was still, Oh you just gotta play the game. So after I played and picked out like 7 or 8 misspellings, I gave up.

Quimliqer · 70-79, M

@twiigss But giving someone the program, even if it’s a copy, isn’t something normal!!

twiigss · M

@Quimliqer It literally would have been, if I started writing a book, and I'm 30 pages into it, and I say, here's a copy of the first 30 pages, and misspellings fix, and send back the copy. But I still retain the original.

A copy hurts nothing. If I'm sending out the original that's a problem. My whole thing too was, well okay, let's get to know each other. I'm not a bad person, let's chat, etc. become friends etc. I dunno I guess I am too trusting and hope and wish there are still good people like me out there but I guess not.

herDestiny · 36-40, F

@twiigss Handing out a copy of a few book pages is nothing. Handing out a copy of game code is everything. One should not give game code to helpful strangers, no matter what.

twiigss · M

@herDestiny Well I know if I needed help I would do it different. That's why I'm like, yeah I get it, so then you get to know the person. I got almost nowhere playing the game so I got as far as I could. And it's not even the game code itself, more like, the words used in conversation only, not actual code like, if car = 1 else, etc. etc. Just the conversation stuff. Hi welcome to burger world, you will need to use lettuse to make a burger.

That's what I was getting at.

herDestiny · 36-40, F

@twiigss Yes, I very much understand the issue. Also, I see it from both sides. Why wouldn’t he accept help? It seemingly makes no sense. And it absolutely makes no sense, except when it’s game code. I’m a beginner coder in 3 coding languages, so I understand. I might jumpstart my code by using whatever code I find available. It’s not that you would do that or that you’d create a whole game from the code, nevertheless, that’s a valid concern. It’s great of you to have helped as much as you did, I’m not sure that I would have made the effort, unless it’s a game I love. ☺

twiigss · M

@herDestiny Yes, exactly!! Well my whole thing was, okay maybe he doesn't have great spelling.... hey!! I'm great at spelling, let me see if he wants help!! And while he wanted help, it was more like, well you just have to play the game, I was hoping for a more thing of, okay you can be my spell tester and here's the words (not game code) because as I said, I could have had that whole thing fixed and tidied up in no time.

But it's okay, I did get some stuff spelled right for him. Yeah I just saw it and wanted to offer help.