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The five stages of debugging grief: denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and finally... reading the documentation. Nothing quite captures that moment of existential crisis when you realize you've spent three hours trying to fix something that could've been solved in five minutes if you'd just checked the manual first. The face says it all – that painful realization that you're not as clever as you thought, and the documentation writers were right all along. What's next, actually commenting your code?

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