Who wants to play a game?

People that suffer from the XY problem when asking for help.

In summary,

User wants to do X.
User doesn't know how to do X, but thinks they can fumble their way to a solution if they can just manage to do Y.
User doesn't know how to do Y either.
User asks for help with Y.
Others try to help user with Y, but are confused because Y seems like a strange problem to want to solve.
After much interaction and wasted time, it finally becomes clear that the user really wants help with X, and that Y wasn't even a suitable solution for X.

Oh yeah and arguing with really dumb people that can’t comprehend that they’re dumb.

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