It was experimental. Sure, it didn't work, but that's what experimentation is for.
—Zero Punctuation, on his grudging respect for Mirror's Edge despite not enjoying it.
You can design a castle made out of bubblegum, and no one will have ever seen anything like it before, but that doesn't make it a good idea.
- Veteran Concept Artist and Worldbuilder Feng Zhu, on balancing creativity and commercially viable design.
I've never seen that done before. There's a reason for it. It's a bad idea.
—Alton Brown, Cutthroat Kitchen
Just because an idea has been patented, doesn't mean that it's actually any good. Just means no one's thought of it before, and... sometimes there's a reason for that.
I'm gonna say this was probably a waste of time and you should probably just dip them. There's a reason no one has thought of this before now, and that's 'cause it's a bad idea.
