Bug#714399: a7xpg: spaceship drifts to upper left corner of screen making gameplay impossible

[Jason Quinn]

Your sentence that says "when you can't reproduce such an apparently
obvious issue" that makes it sound as if I'm doing something wrong.
It's clear you intend to say that you cannot reproduce the issue but
your phrasing could be improved.

I do not have a joystick. The keyboard is attached to a laptop. I have
not tried the game recently on another computer but if I get the
chance I will. As I wrote before, I believe I have already seen this
issue on multiple machines (likely on another Dell laptop at minimum)
but it's been a long time since I would have tried and I don't recall
anything for certain.

As for seeing more people report the bug, this an an obscure game.
When you start with the small fraction of people running Debian and
multiply it by the fraction of people who actually install this game
and then multiply by the fraction of people who experience the bug,
and then multiply the fraction of people who report bugs (which is
canonically taken to be about 1 in 100 users) , you are getting down
to a small number of expected bug reports... perhaps on the order of
one like just me. While it's interesting that you do not experience
the bug, I assure you the bug does happen for me; and your message
almost makes it sound like you dismiss the concept of bugs that depend
on various external issues or even hardware. It's far from obvious to
me that we should have seen more confirms in this case and I also note
the lack of additional "works for me" comments. So please don't
dismiss my report as if you are sceptical of the problem that *I'm*
experiencing because just because you don't see it.

Jason