wait what

people keep writing about having a hacker mindset... this blog in particular actually gave examples. and it's just "don't believe what people say" and can generally be summed up to cut the process to that 20/80 rule, avoid institutional / expert knowledge because it's bogus and full of false dogma and myths

I got all this in spades!

I'm so confused though.

I loved video games -- because if I broke the rules and it worked, well I got the goods. but when a friend of mine kept badgering me about board games, which I found annoying; why do I have to keep track of the rules in my head? I'm very lazy you see. well when I found the loopholes in the rules and used them... suddenly everyone turns on you and redoes what they meant by the rules

and I've found real ambiguous life to be like those board games. if you break the rules, even suggest it, everyone sanctions you

so how is this the trick? how does it make any sense?

I love cold systems because they're unopinionated but people really love their rules, and it doesn't matter how good you are you're just offensive scum if you're not doing their dogma. I feel so stuck in this. something has a bug somewhere