Flash seems like a pretty reliable program so far, but some things just seem way more difficult than they should be. I still can't make a simple vase out of a circle and a rectangle, partially because of the uselessness of the tutorials I have been trying to use. Honestly you have no idea how shitty and impossible to understand they can be. All I want to do is learn the basics and be able to find a helpful tutorial, one for beginners that you can actually follow. I'm not planning on jumping straight into making platformers (even though I really wish I could) but my lack of progress is starting to piss me off.