Get to be a pain in the ass on a slower machine, unless you're such a no-life even in spirit that you never mind it at all.
If loading simple webpages takes a significant amount of time, in year 2019, then that's entirely on you.
and yet the search could still make it look like it's not there to people, regardless.
Why? You don't know the search can give you the wrong idea going in.
You do, if you have ever used a search function on any forum or website. They are never perfect and while they do make for a good starting point of a search, or a last-ditch effort, you should never take their results as a gospel. If you didn't know this - you do now and I hope you can use that knowledge in the future.
How is sifting through and loading multiple pages yourself first more logical and obvious? How is it logical to look for something after the evidence is interpreted that it isn't there or expect it to be a few pages back after looking like it stopped a while ago? You seem to know a lot about thinking logically.
Links in the OP must appear from somewhere. From what I have seen, most of the time the OP is updated by moderators with links posted by normal users in the thread. Ergo, if the version in the OP is old, the likeliest place to find newer versions in is the few last pages of the thread. That was my logic, tell me if there's anything wrong with it.
I do have one bit of logic that I'm 100% certain is correct: that asking is far more effective and polite way of getting what you want, than whining. Had you just asked for a new version in a civil way, you'd still get the link you wanted and we wouldn't be wasting time on this conversation. Especially you - after all, loading additional webpages is a pain in the ass for you, is it not?
Oh, did I? Maybe you could design video games, you know, with how you expect people to just know things?
No, I expect people to look for knowledge. When a person is playing a game and encounters something they don't understand - a new thing, a new concept, a new mechanism - I expect people to NOT curl up in a ball and cry to everyone about it, but to look for an explanation, first in-game, then on the game's wiki, forums or on google. I played plenty of games that don't hold your hand at all: Dark Souls series, Paradox games (EU3 and 4, CK2, Victoria 2, HoI3), Factorio, and that approach has worked well for me so far. Actually, TiTS could qualify as well, because playing without using the wiki (or being more direct and looking at the source code) can be pretty painful at times.
And when you can't find anything despite your best efforts, guess what - YOU ASK. You don't whine, you don't cry, you don't get pissed at everyone, you just fucking ask for help. I really hope this isn't an alien concept for you.
