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Dungeater posted...

it's the same as saying "just lose weight" to someone struggling with weight loss, in my mind.

It's not. If someone is struggling with weight loss, it's because they don't know how to lose weight. In this situation, it doesn't help because they don't even understand the basics. They can't lose weight until they are told how.

Let's take ER as an example, which should work based off your username.

If someone is struggling to understand iframes, yeah, saying git gud doesn't help at all.
If someone is struggling with how to find openings in general, same.

But if someone understands the basics (iframes, when to attack, how to scale damage), then they are already capable of beating every single boss in the game. The only thing that prevents them from doing so, is impatience or misreading attacks. Both of those things you become better at in time. Nobody needs to tell you "don't be impatient" or "read the attack better". You would already know that. The only thing left is to practice.

The more you practice, the more familiar you become with the attacks. The more you practice, the more patient you'll be.

I think the disconnect is that you might be thinking of someone using the response to someone who has no idea how to play, rather than someone who does, but is making mistakes and blaming the game.