"The Guru Myth"

[Adrianis]

I would want to disagree with you Palistov, because people should already know that, but then again I saw someone asking for a tutorial on how to make things scary so god knows what people expect... Thing is, a tutorial won't get you all the way, but without any tutorials your not going to get anywhere at all.

Formal education is just a means by which experienced people can propogate their superior knowledge. You have to start low, you have to start with a tutorial no matter the format of the tutorial, be it on Youtube or a lecture room. Unless your developing a whole computer system from the ground up, you can't just make your own trail, we are all working on the trails set by other people, those people had to teach others, and those others have to teach us.

You may just want to just start swinging, but unless your making your own machete you better have someone who has made a machete to help you out. Theres no point in 'reinventing the wheel', and we all know it, thats why we are modding not developing our own engine, but no one thinks of the people with more experience as being anything other than people with more experience. Well, not anyone worth worrying about, certainly not anyone on the development forums!