Your title made me think of this picture.

In case anyone thought the “rockstar” being referred to was Joe Strummer, it’s actually Gene Simmons.

Be nice because you want to be a nice person.

One way I’ve seen this put is don’t be nice, be kind. Nice is performative and ‘nice’ people can be two faced because they’ll be ‘nice’ to both a bully and the bully’s victim.

Being kind is more about empathy. And if you have empathy, you won’t tolerate bullies. It’s far more genuine and not just a performance for whoever you’re currently in the company of.

For me personally it has to be certain rom hacks from before the era of decomps and creation kit style tools.

I was fairly active in the gen 3 Pokemon hacking scene on the pokecommunity forums back in the day. And hex editing and trial and error was one thing but real wizards were the ASM hackers that could completely out of the box stuff like adding in new move effects or character customisation functionality or day and night systems, to games that had none of these.

Those were actually the trailblazers that led to all the decomps we have today that have made it so easy.