#gamers in certain specific spaces hate asset reuse. certain devs and artists who are somewhat puritanical of making things hate asset reuse. but its a standard practice, there’s no possible way to not reuse anything, u arent building ur own computer architecture and creating a compiler and everything so u are using preexisting libraries. but certain people think its ‘cheating’ or ‘not real development’ if they use specific libraries, frameworks, assets, main example being game engines. but examples like asset libraries, addons, are also included in this

the reason is very similar to “you arent a real chef if u use a cake mix” bullshit. and it exists to some extent in every field from what i understand. its just about learning that building on existing things isnt demeaning or bad in any way, atleast as long as u acknowledge and credit

u know i could’ve cropped that out like i removed the interaction buttons previously on this image. but i didnt think to for some reason lmao

im not saying its not annoying that people just dont seem to search before asking a lot of the times. but seeing them is part of that free labor, and u can just ignore. i provide help in forums and just ignore when someone asks an exact question already answered and easy to search (cases where its not exact i might say something) (also ig search engines suck now so idk how to think about that but we arent talking right now anyways)

years of people asking questions and getting ridiculed eventually getting an answer weeks or months or years later is how there were 95% of the relevant answers