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by pentaphobe 697 days ago
Totally - the "I like this, how does it work?" Factor is such an amazing learning tool (and a hell of a fringe community builder)

Between mod files and small demoscene programs written in assembler there was so much incentive to improve your skills just in order to _understand_ how a thing worked. Then you're using that new understanding to make new things (rather than copying a set of rote "tricks")