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ORIGINAL: pasternakski

ORIGINAL: treespider

FWIW I'd rather have constructive comments in bad English then Farsi or Mandarin....

Would you, than? Good or bad Farsi or Mandarin would that be?

It's 2:21am where i am ...oops I hit an e instead of an a. So sue me.

What happens when we adopt "spelling for idiots" and the idiots misspell the idiotic spelling?

Hoo wood noaw thay was misspelled...I guess the idiots wood.

What do you do when it's not a matter of spelling but of usage or grammar? Idiotize that, too?

Sure.

Jeez, a near-planet-killer size asteroid whizzed past 300,000 miles away on July 3. Maybe we'll get lucky next time while all the morons are standing outside trying to figure out how to spell what it's called.

If Providence in his infinite wisdom decides its time to make room for the inter-galactic freeway....why should I worry how its spelled?[:)]

ORIGINAL: Don Bowen


A new style of posting seems to be evolving on the forum and I’d like to be sure that I understand it’s structure.

First, terminology: “ridiculous”, “nonsense”, “flawed”, “foolishness”, “stupid nonsense”, and “stupidity” all seem to mean the same thing: “something doesn’t work like I think it should”

And, of course “fix it”, which appears to mean “make it work exactly like I think it should”.

And it’s important to be as rude and forceful as possible. After all, there’s nothing like being rude to people to make them want to help you.

Proper spelling seems to have gone out of style.

Don, I really appreciate your work. The problem with people coming up with such posts (including me) is, that there are things (still from the beginning) that ARE e.g. ridicoulos. [:(] I think in the first year mostly the bugs were a problem which are nearly gone now (plz don´t shoot me![;)]). And now there are the problems in some aspects of the game with how the game was designed and people are crying about it and probably have done it earlier too. At this stage most players have played the game for 2 years and I think I can say that those players, including me, love this game.

Again, I really love this game and please don´t take such posts as personal attacks as the people around here surely appreciate your work! But still there are aspects that were simply overlooked during the design and can´t be explained as historical nor realistical. I think the "rude" intonation of those posts is because people are having a nerve break down in front of their monitors when they see 50000:2000 casualties when attacking a base that has been cut off for 6 months or when 600 planes are shot down for 20 defenders and not a single plane came through even if the attacker was high experienced (which wasn´t so in reality, I know). And so on... It´s not just that people want it exactly to be like they think it should be, but most of them want it to be like that it´s possible to understand it with common sense that this could be realistic (not historic).

ORIGINAL: pasternakski

ORIGINAL: Don Bowen
Proper spelling seems to have gone out of style.

I'm going home, now. I'm going to lock the door, go upstairs to my bedroom, get in my jammies, crawl under the covers and never come out again...

Of course, the simpler thing would be to study and not gripe and complain, but that's not what the kiddies want. They want good grades with no effort.

Back away from the rant, there. Put the rant down.

Back to topic. I think we all have our favorite bugaboo about the game mechanics, or data base, or whatever. But, back to basics. What else replaces WitP for those who have dreamed of this type of game since SPI days. Seven mapboards, a room the size of a well favored den, and five other friends to play the game for six months, all at the mercy of a puff of wind, or the paw of cat rule. I for one, whilst I voice my... ah... frustrations.. will continue to play, and fiddle with the system as I have the chance. If I cam make my system run right, that is.

I think he's finally found out that some of us enjoy discussing the game rules more than actually playing the game.

It's a grognard thing.

Please Don, don't turn into another Mr Frag.[:-][:D]

ORIGINAL: Halsey

Please Don, don't turn into another Mr Frag.[:-][:D]

Maybe he IS Frag... Ever thought of that?[X(]

ORIGINAL: Terminus

ORIGINAL: Halsey

Please Don, don't turn into another Mr Frag.[:-][:D]

Maybe he IS Frag... Ever thought of that?[X(]

NOT possible, Don actually FIXES things that I report to be "broken", when FRAG would just say "working as designed"......

ORIGINAL: wild_Willie2

ORIGINAL: Terminus

ORIGINAL: Halsey

Please Don, don't turn into another Mr Frag.[:-][:D]

Maybe he IS Frag... Ever thought of that?[X(]

NOT possible, Don actually FIXES things that I report to be "broken", when FRAG would just say "working as designed"......

Merely a manifestation of multiple personality disorder... [:'(]

Of which there was very little doubt in the first place...

Hi all,

ORIGINAL: Don Bowen

A new style of posting seems to be evolving on the forum and I’d like to be sure that I understand it’s structure.

First, terminology: “ridiculous”, “nonsense”, “flawed”, “foolishness”, “stupid nonsense”, and “stupidity” all seem to mean the same thing: “something doesn’t work like I think it should”

And, of course “fix it”, which appears to mean “make it work exactly like I think it should”.

And it’s important to be as rude and forceful as possible. After all, there’s nothing like being rude to people to make them want to help you.

Proper spelling seems to have gone out of style.

Dan and Joe - please do not think that WitP community (and I think that is the proper word because we have been together for such long time - since UV) is feeling like some posts you mention above indicate...

99.9999% of us here love and respect you guys and your tremendous effort - please continue just like you were doing! [&o][&o][&o]


Leo "Apollo11"

ORIGINAL: bradfordkay

You mean that there is an organization of people like Brady??? Noooo...... trying to read posts written like those sentences in Pasternaksi's article gives me a headache... I can understand the occasional typo or mispelled word, but enough is enough! [:'(]

Their motto is "Bad spellers of the word untie!"[:D]

ORIGINAL: Apollo11

Hi all,

ORIGINAL: Don Bowen

A new style of posting seems to be evolving on the forum and I’d like to be sure that I understand it’s structure.

First, terminology: “ridiculous”, “nonsense”, “flawed”, “foolishness”, “stupid nonsense”, and “stupidity” all seem to mean the same thing: “something doesn’t work like I think it should”

And, of course “fix it”, which appears to mean “make it work exactly like I think it should”.

And it’s important to be as rude and forceful as possible. After all, there’s nothing like being rude to people to make them want to help you.

Proper spelling seems to have gone out of style.

Dan and Joe - please do not think that WitP community (and I think that is the proper word because we have been together for such long time - since UV) is feeling like some posts you mention above indicate...

99.9999% of us here love and respect you guys and your tremendous effort - please continue just like you were doing! [&o][&o][&o]


Leo "Apollo11"

To which this part of the congregation responded "AAAMMMEEENNNN!"

Don't mind us, guys. We're like a bunch of sailors. If we ain't b*tching about something, we ain't happy!

That's why it's called "grognard" and not "heureuxard"...

ORIGINAL: RevRick

ORIGINAL: Apollo11

Hi all,

ORIGINAL: Don Bowen

A new style of posting seems to be evolving on the forum and I’d like to be sure that I understand it’s structure.

First, terminology: “ridiculous”, “nonsense”, “flawed”, “foolishness”, “stupid nonsense”, and “stupidity” all seem to mean the same thing: “something doesn’t work like I think it should”

And, of course “fix it”, which appears to mean “make it work exactly like I think it should”.

And it’s important to be as rude and forceful as possible. After all, there’s nothing like being rude to people to make them want to help you.

Proper spelling seems to have gone out of style.

Dan and Joe - please do not think that WitP community (and I think that is the proper word because we have been together for such long time - since UV) is feeling like some posts you mention above indicate...

99.9999% of us here love and respect you guys and your tremendous effort - please continue just like you were doing! [&o][&o][&o]


Leo "Apollo11"

To which this part of the congregation responded "AAAMMMEEENNNN!"

Don't mind us, guys. We're like a bunch of sailors. If we ain't b*tching about something, we ain't happy!

Jus thot i wud point out that his nam is D-"O"-N and not D-"A"-N.....[:D][:-][:D][:-][;)][;)]

ORIGINAL: pasternakski

ORIGINAL: Roger Neilson

Of course if this forum had a spellchecker

Roger, Roger, Roger. A lot of these knuckleheads can't even spell spellchecker.

LOL

Flipper

On the spelling spectrum, from the functionally illiterate to the National Spelling Bee champions, most of us are somewhere in the middle, especially those of us who attended public schools [8D] Living in a glass house, therefore, I tend to hold my fire..still, there are times when the spelling error is so obvious it is incompatible with the normal functioning of the nervous system.

Don is right, of course. Polite requests are more likely to be heeded. Its a little like telling a waiter your steak is **** and sending back to the kitchen...you are just asking for some ...adulteration..[;)]..when it comes back.

If you tick off the code writers enough, they could easily make all 80 kg bomb hits cause a magazine explosion on any Essex class carrier[:)]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

On the spelling spectrum, from the functionally illiterate to the National Spelling Bee champions, most of us are somewhere in the middle, especially those of us who attended public schools [8D] Living in a glass house, therefore, I tend to hold my fire..still, there are times when the spelling error is so obvious it is incompatible with the normal functioning of the nervous system.

Don is right, of course. Polite requests are more likely to be heeded. Its a little like telling a waiter your steak is **** and sending back to the kitchen...you are just asking for some ...adulteration..[;)]..when it comes back.

If you tick off the code writers enough, they could easily make all 80 kg bomb hits cause a magazine explosion on any Essex class carrier[:)]

hmmm... this might explain a few things.... [X(] [:'(]

I'm still trying to figure out how a single copy can be boobytrapped for the owner.[;)]

ORIGINAL: Ron Saueracker

I'm still trying to figure out how a single copy can be boobytrapped for the owner.[;)]

Well, that's only ever happened to your copy, so the devs probably forgot the procedure...

Bichin' sailors ARE happy sailors![:D]