A comment I can agree with

In the annotation of today's Irregular Webcomic!, the Author, David Morgan-Mar, makes the statement "Even the simplest of problems can appear incredibly complicated when there are distracting factors and blind alleys floating around."

I've definitely seen this as a programmer where I or someone else has spent hours looking for an obvious bug hidden in plain sight by other complications. But perhaps the best example of this comes from role-playing.

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