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Posting Format
Posted: Thu Jul 06, 2006 11:49 pm
by 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.
RE: Posting Format
Posted: Fri Jul 07, 2006 12:02 am
by Raverdave
Proper speling ? Wots that all meen ?
RE: Posting Format
Posted: Fri Jul 07, 2006 12:07 am
by pasternakski
ORIGINAL: Don Bowen
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.
WHAT???[:@][:@][:@][:@][:@][:@][:@][:@][:@][:@][:@]Theas ar moast redicelus non-senes
I never herd! Its eaven stoopder then Jordge Boosh and he's hed esplodung cause its so dum he cant think! Fishul Martix nead to louk on these, casue its hosed, hosed, hosed!
Proper spelling seems to have gone out of style.
Ef yu cant reed mi riting, yu ent werthe tu here wut Im said. Woden fleat! Crusier! Trops!
errr...yes, thank you, nurse, I feel much better now...
RE: Posting Format
Posted: Fri Jul 07, 2006 12:13 am
by Raverdave
[:D]
RE: Posting Format
Posted: Fri Jul 07, 2006 12:16 am
by DuckofTindalos
You forgot "piolets" and "midjets"...
and possibly "midjet piolets"...
Seriously though, Don has a point. There's been an explosion in badly tempered, "fix-this-right-now-or-I'll-hold-my-breath-until-my-face-turns-blue" threads lately; those aren't helping anyone...
RE: Posting Format
Posted: Fri Jul 07, 2006 1:02 am
by wworld7
ORIGINAL: Terminus
Seriously though, Don has a point.
You think?
Can't we all just get along?
Flipper
RE: Posting Format
Posted: Fri Jul 07, 2006 1:39 am
by Dino
I'd like to teach the world to sing in perfect harmony,
I'd like to buy the world a beer and keep it company.
[Repeat the last two lines, and in the background:]
It's the real thing...
RE: Posting Format
Posted: Fri Jul 07, 2006 2:25 am
by pasternakski
ORIGINAL: Terminus
Seriously though, Don has a point.
Yes, indeed, and he and Joe need all the support they can get, not further clamoring for this or that change.
First, we no longer have any idea what breaks when something is "fixed," but we know something always does.
Second, whenever these good gentlemen have attempted to make a change that they believe will be palatable to the masses, they get it spat back in their faces, as though the whole bleedin' mess was their fault in the first place.
I have said before, and I will say it again, that it is time to wrap this thing up and move on, with lessons learned firmly in tow. A few more bug fixes - real bugs, not the "I want it now, Mom, or I'm gonna behave so bad it'll make you sorry you ever took me to Wal-Mart" sort - and forget it. I just don't think this game "system" has a future.
I have three PBEMs going now (had four, but an Allied opponent got POed and quit because I took my January '42 vacation in Honolulu). After that, I'm as done with this game as I was with UV about a year ago.
New subjects should be treated with new systems.
Now, if Matrix doesn't do a WitP-style game based on the WWII Mediterranean theater, I'm gonna pull out a knife and shoot somebody...
RE: Posting Format
Posted: Fri Jul 07, 2006 2:48 am
by Dino
ORIGINAL: pasternakski
Now, if Matrix doesn't do a WitP-style game based on the WWII Mediterranean theater, I'm gonna pull out a knife and shoot somebody...
I'll drink to that with all my heart...
RE: Posting Format
Posted: Fri Jul 07, 2006 2:53 am
by treespider
I agree 100%...may I refer you to my signature line...
RE: Posting Format
Posted: Fri Jul 07, 2006 3:23 am
by dtravel
Well, I could observe that the forum goes thru a regular cycle between "We All Love This Game" and "We All Hate This Game" as patches get released and age.
But Don might not consider that "helpful". [;)]
RE: Posting Format
Posted: Fri Jul 07, 2006 3:23 am
by ckk
ORIGINAL: pasternakski
ORIGINAL: Terminus
Seriously though, Don has a point.
Yes, indeed, and he and Joe need all the support they can get, not further clamoring for this or that change.
First, we no longer have any idea what breaks when something is "fixed," but we know something always does.
Second, whenever these good gentlemen have attempted to make a change that they believe will be palatable to the masses, they get it spat back in their faces, as though the whole bleedin' mess was their fault in the first place.
I have said before, and I will say it again, that it is time to wrap this thing up and move on, with lessons learned firmly in tow. A few more bug fixes - real bugs, not the "I want it now, Mom, or I'm gonna behave so bad it'll make you sorry you ever took me to Wal-Mart" sort - and forget it. I just don't think this game "system" has a future.
I have three PBEMs going now (had four, but an Allied opponent got POed and quit because I took my January '42 vacation in Honolulu). After that, I'm as done with this game as I was with UV about a year ago.
New subjects should be treated with new systems.
Now, if Matrix doesn't do a WitP-style game based on the WWII Mediterranean theater, I'm gonna pull out a knife and shoot somebody...
Yaknow if I could understand what paster said in the first place I think I would agree[:D]
RE: Posting Format
Posted: Fri Jul 07, 2006 3:27 am
by dtravel
ORIGINAL: ckk
Yaknow if I could understand what paster said in the first place I think I would agree[:D]
No one understands what paster says. Including paster I suspect, not that he'd ever admit that. [:'(][:D]
RE: Posting Format
Posted: Fri Jul 07, 2006 4:59 am
by pasternakski
ORIGINAL: dtravel
ORIGINAL: ckk
Yaknow if I could understand what paster said in the first place I think I would agree[:D]
No one understands what paster says. Including paster I suspect, not that he'd ever admit that. [:'(][:D]
What'd I say? What'd I say?
RE: Posting Format
Posted: Fri Jul 07, 2006 5:02 am
by 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...
RE: Posting Format
Posted: Fri Jul 07, 2006 5:18 am
by Roger Neilson
Of course if this forum had a spellchecker then mebbes many of us would be bale to spell properly.... in my case its not missspelling but typring so fast that I hit the wrong keys in the wrong order.
Roger
Teacehr of English for over 30 years so i cn spell when I want ot.
RE: Posting Format
Posted: Fri Jul 07, 2006 6:05 am
by 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! [:'(]
RE: Posting Format
Posted: Fri Jul 07, 2006 6:08 am
by 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.
RE: Posting Format
Posted: Fri Jul 07, 2006 6:08 am
by treespider
FWIW I'd rather have constructive comments in bad English then Farsi or Mandarin....
RE: Posting Format
Posted: Fri Jul 07, 2006 6:15 am
by 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?
What happens when we adopt "spelling for idiots" and the idiots misspell the idiotic spelling? What do you do when it's not a matter of spelling but of usage or grammar? Idiotize that, too?
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.