Unskilled and Unaware of It

Im quite aware of my incompetence, I just choose to ignore it. If I didn’t I would never try to accomplish anything and therefore fail where I have succeeded simply by trying.

In all seriousness I find that people often underestimate their abilities and have hidden skills and talents that go untapped.

I think the most interesting thing I read on this phenomenon was related to how it may be indispensable to us as a species. Think about it.. it's this blind faith in our ability to accomplish new tasks that gives us the confidence to attempt them! That's huge!

I live in constant fear of being exactly this kind of person: A crushing boor, oblivious to the glaring flaws in his character and creations. This apprehension is so omnipresent in my psychology that, even when I receive sincere compliments, part of me always wonders if they were actually sarcastic.

That said, I've found that game design as a hobby is particularly prone to structurally compromised pots: The tabletop gaming industry is, after all, one of the few remaining industries which regularly relies on independent inventors, and which still produces out-of-nowhere hits. Turning a raw game concept into a functional, physical prototype is trivial with commonly available tools. Playtesting is an inexact science at best, and social boundaries sometimes inhibit useful criticism - as does the designer's own confirmation bias.

Then ther's the concept of the game itself, which can range from "simple enough to teach in one sentence" to "slightly more complicated than earning a Doctorate in astrophysics".

And what is a game design, but a computer program running in abstract space? As any programmer will enthusiastically tell you, a minor mistake in the logic of a program will render the whole framework useless. Similarly, an overlooked edge-case in development can become a whopping great game crasher later on.

Throw in an inconsistent (and often tenuous) understanding of copyright, trademark, and patent law, and the whole thing is a recipe for this exactly this kind of personality to reach the maximum possible value of both "incompetent" and "annoying".