knorke wrote:luckywaldo7 wrote:What a god-awful analogy. The difference between the Wright Brothers and NASA is probably on the order of hundreds of thousands engineers and scientists, making incremental and revolutionary advances, in theory and through experimentation, over 100 years.
Sounds about as big a difference like the difference between random newbie-modder caterpillar flapping graphic wings for first time and experienced engine dev mothra. Seems like pro analogy worked.
The point is that saying "it got ripped apart" does imo put Argh's render experiments in worse light than it deserves. Mentioning only that and nothing else, it leaves out too much. That is all.
If we're going with this analogy, the point is
not that his experiments were "put in a worse light than they deserved". It is that Argh's constant utterly unfounded claims about them, usually in essay-posts longer than the Chinese Wall laced with technical inaccuracies or outright gibberish, looked
bizarre (for the proper context, this would be like Orville Wright having claimed the Flyer could reach the moon, in the face of all logic and reason, from 1903 right up to 1948 when he died) to anyone with the engineering knowledge to judge those claims. He kept doing this for five years, over and over again,
never learning from what he was told (this was clear from the direct dealings I had with him) and it became intolerable, so that by 2013 there was no other light to view them in.
knorke wrote:
Imo it does not matter how hackish it was or what problems it had or why it was a dead-end.
Yes, it does. Argh kept building Da Vinci helicopters in the 21st century utterly convinced they would surpass all existing designs (and he would not hesitate to tell everyone this, despite having access to resources that allowed him to know better), and nobody gives out "revolutionary" awards for proven unworkable dead ends.
knorke wrote:
Argh's bullshit claims in blablabla-topics were at least based on his attempts to do something, it was a technical approach and made sense in a way
The "at least he attempted something" excuse only goes so far when the person behind the attempts considers them far more than their actual worth and stampedes around ridiculing all who do not see that imagined value, including the NASA engineers kindly telling him multiple times why he might need to rethink his approach.
It does not matter what someone's other accomplishments might be, patience gives way very quickly.
