What's The Dumbest Bug You've Spent Hours Or Days Fixing That Turned Out To Be A One-Line Mistake?

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What's The Dumbest Bug You've Spent Hours Or Days Fixing That Turned Out To Be A One-Line Mistake?

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You've spent 6 hours debugging physics collisions, checking scripts, reinstalling packages, questioning your entire career choice... only to discover that restarting Unity fixes everything. The Interstellar reference is chef's kiss because those "51 years" genuinely feel accurate when you're watching that loading bar for the 47th time today.

Unity devs know this pain intimately. Sometimes the engine just decides to hold onto old references, cache phantom errors, or simply gaslight you into thinking your perfectly valid code is broken. The solution? Turn it off and on again. Revolutionary.

The real kicker is that "restart Unity" becomes muscle memory after a while, yet we STILL waste hours trying everything else first because surely it can't be that simple... right? Narrator: It was that simple.

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