Gaming

This is exactly it. It's more fun to shit on a game release because it gives a sense of superiority. "I know better than everyone else, this game should have been done this way and that way" and bolsters self confidence.

There are without a doubt some really good arguments for things that could be different, but the vast majority of things I read are self aggrandizing people talking about how they all know how it could be better - and that's the arrogance that really bugs me. That any of us who don't know anything about the source code could say at all that it should run better.

Saying "I wish it ran faster" is one thing. Saying "I know it could run better" or "Other games run fast, this one should too", or in regards to this article "lol they did this thing that's so stupid" and just the self backpatting for figuring it out. Software engineering is hard alone. Gaming engineering on top of that is just ridiculous. I have 14 years of software engineering under my belt and I still know they are doing things in this game that I would not be able to. Anyone who says they know better than the engineers are the same as the people who sat in my CS102 class and told other students they were smarter than the professor. You aren't. Everyone knows you aren't. Please stop acting like you are