the poop happens world we live in thread 2XXX

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Been trying to make my program work properly but it just won't. I've looked my code over a million times and traced everything but for some reason a specific function keeps returning a value that it shouldn't.

I mean I don't mind debugging legitimately faulty code, if there's a typo or some obvious thing I did wrong sometimes it's even fun. But seriously this is just ridiculous. If it is my fault then I'll probably laugh at my stupidity afterwards, but right now I can't find a single crack and it's just really grinding my gears.

Ooooh yes. Best of them all.
Recently, I had some perfectly fine code that didn't work because one of the variables took larger values then the array I was indexing with it held (which I just did not expect but you never know what you get when reading strange data formats).
Sometimes it helps to let it rest for a day or two and then look at it again or to show it to someone else.