You know, I don't even know what this "orly?" thing is. I know I must be missing out on something great. Someone was kind enough to post a link to my "worst map ever" thread. I didn't actually revisit that one after my second posting there, but I was shocked to find that something positive actually came of it. The guy is redesigning his map. Something I wonder though is, how much effect on the map's final quality did the arbitrarily decision that he needed to compress the hell out of it? That map was a mess, there's no getting around it. It was simply a mess. I posted my feelings, and, call it luck or whatever, something good came of it. I'm sure that if everyone posted the nastiest or most embarrasing thing they remember a particular person doing, there would be lots of shame to go around. Hell, there's probably enough things I've done to write a couple of volumes on the subject. The vast majority of the remaining OTA community thinks badly of me and anything I do because I 1) got pissed off at a moderator, 2) my complaints about said moderator were ignored and/or deleted (the moderator in question a year later had his privieleges revoked when, apparently, the local pantheon of unmoderating moderators and negligent admins couldn't ignore it anymore or it wasn't funny anymore) 3) Spammed to hell and back, then burned bridges as best as I could. I don't know who ought to be held responsible, that moron PrezKennedy or the admins I tried to warn but didn't give a damn. Who's to blame, the lion or the sleeping watchmen? Come on, let's all have a giant pissing contest to see who can spite everyone else best. Dammit Alantai, can't you just proofread? There's no way you can possibly be that illiterate or that rushed yet still be able to code such a competent AI. Munch, your devotion to a corrupt religion sickens me. Buggi, where the hell is my sharpmap? Just kidding, you're great. Storm, let it die for crap sake. I'm sorry. I've apologized and explained my actions a dozen times over. Does anyone here use 56k? I've got a zinger for you. Why do you try to play spring and therfore slow the game down and make it unenjoyable for everyone? It's because your mother is a whore! hahaha. I stole that from SNL Celebrity Jeopardy. SNL was a better show back in the good old days. Mother, what is your malfunction that you would pick such a bizarre name? That must be worse than that guy whose login is "Everyone". And your mapconv crashes and doesn't place geo vents where I want em, not that I expect you to fix that, I just wanted to complain. Mechasonic, do you ever even PLAY spring? Why must you hang out in the lobby and set yourself up for such antagonism? Betalord, why does the "more mods" link go to FileUniverse rather than the wiki here? No more half-baked excuses, come on, why is a site that offers one mirror better than a full-bodied page with images, formatting, headings, and the possibility of any number of international mirrors? You're obviously not lazy and you're clearly not dumb, so I have to put it down to stubbornness. If you're concerned about bandwidth, might I recommend you actually start making use of the resources SourceForge has put at your disposal and put the Spring files on there? Instantly you have hundreds, thousands of spare megabytes of bandwidth floating around, and not only that but you've got better, localized bandwidth for anyone who wants it. Forboding, damn it you stole my line about jumping into a body of water with a toaster. You also swear too much, not that it really bothers me that much since I'm used to it, but I just wanted to bitch needlessly. BURN IN HELL!! Zaphod, you on the other hand are underappreciated. I know of people who call you lazy behind your back but I know you're not and I hope they're ashamed of being so hypocritical. SJ, I hate to see you working for some big company now, but you've got to earn a living and find a little happiness. Poor Max Payne, he'll never find happiness. Have I covered all my bases? Kelson, if you honestly have something to contribute just bloody well do it. Toshiba, you bastards, my Satellite a30 laptop is a piece of CRAP and it overheats constantly. I have a two year extended warranty on the bloody thing but I know what'll happen when I bring it in. You'll use that cleverly hidden clause in the fine print that allows you to "buy me out" and, in other words, give me $150 for a machine that cost me $1500. You made a faulty product, you know it, I know it, the store knows it. You can't put a freaking 2.8 ghz processor in a confined space with CRAP fans for ventilation and just expect everything to magically go well. The bloody thing overheats while I'm using WORD for crap sake. I hate you and all your employees and I hope someone here works for toshiba just so I can offend him personally. Atari, you're the very epitome of all that is evil and corrupt in this world. I hate you more than Bush or all of politics combined. I hate you more than Microsoft and possibly even Toshiba. You couldn't push a decent product out the door if the product was feces and the door was your collective assholes. Nobody who works for you should live to see sunrise. Wendy's, you make some kick-ass chicken burgers, but PLEASE bring back your honey mustard sauce for grilled chicken sandwiches. This new stuff is CRAP. Why do food companies always change the formula? Why the hell are donuts (here at least) getting smaller EVERY DAY? I want a donut, dammit, I don't want a pretzel. Stop being so bloody cheap - it's an endless loop. You cheapen your products, 2% of your customers get their products elsewhere, so you cheapen a further 2%, then 5% of your customers go elsewhere. Where does it end? Bankruptcy. And then there will be a STARBUCKS on every corner in canada! Well I live in Brantford, the home of Tim Hortons Coffee and Donuts, and damn it I would expect that here of all places you'd make a decent product! Fox, your collective unintelligence has seen the likes of Firefly aka Serenety and of course Family Guy to slip through your fingers. If anyone here watches reality shows, you can just go straight to hell as far as I care. Reality TV makes late-night steak knife infomercials look like an interesting alternative. They have to pay the winner a million dollars. Whoopti-freaking-do. A million bucks is pennies compared with how much a REAL, QUALITY show costs. Battlestar Galactica 2003 and Lost have larger budgets than that for practically every episode! How many other great shows were passed up because a reality show was cheaper and was becoming accepted as watchable? Paypal, your system sucks and because of lack of documentation, lack of intelligent design, or lack of intelligence altogether, all told I've lost over $100 USD because you haven't got a clue what customer service is. Xbox 360 is a mediocre machine which was outdated long before it was released. Microsoft knew that if they didn't push it out the door before chrismas they'd lose horribly to Sony. Nintendo, I try to stick up for you, but could you please stop using such cutesy graphics? It'd make the battle a lot easier. The DS is an awesome machine BTW, and anyone who disagrees with me is wrong because I'm always right, and you can just go suck a lemon. Since anyone who's read this far is probably in a trancelike state, make sure you get Absolute Annihilation 1.42 when it's released tomorrow-ish. Also, Altored Divide is a realy great map, get it and you will instantly reduce your chance of contracting herpes by over 38%. I'm going to bloody well release as many versions as I feel are necessary until I think AA is properly balanced. I thought it was properly balanced 6 months ago, just to give you an idea of how likely that perfect balance is to be found. Advance Wars is a great game, with more fun and strategy than Civ 4 could've if it didn't have the gayest interface ever, full of tiles and lack of information in general. Homosexuals make me sick to my stomach and if you really want an explanation why, you just ask. Digital Reality was once a really great game developer but they sold out and started making mainstream games. Now it's just more of the same crap. Does nobody else get sick of all these endless world war 2 games? I mean, name a genre that hasn't massively overused the world war 2 theme. Next there will be a virtual life game about WW2, where you'll raise a soldier or some crap. And then it'll probably be a bloody (no pun intended) reality show. And some asshat in a suit will probably call it innovative and inspiring. I'm not a bigot, but foreign people or anyone who doesn't know english shouldn't be allowed to work at any job involving a telephone. Better yet, I want it declared illegal to use a telephone for any kind of customer support or sales. Show me a face I can punch, then we'll see who's getting a refund. Who the hell clicks on these goddamned "fun free cursors!" and "fun free emoticons!" and "shoot the ninja!" and "free ipod!" ads? HOW CAN ANYONE BE THAT DUMB? HONESTLY?? It plainly defies all my confidence in humanity. The thing is, there must actually be people who click on them, because otherwise even people as dumb as marketing agents would realize it wasn't getting them anywhere. Why does my cable modem keep on disconnecting at the worst possible moment? Why the hell is Sympatico billing my mother $113 for an order we cancelled because it took them over 2 months just to get off their asses and get us connected to the internet? I wouldn't have stuck with them after that ordeal if they'd thrown in 3 months of free internet! Who are all the dumb people who screw up my life, and why aren't they dead yet?
The way I deal with it is to tell them that I find them offensive and why.
And if necessary explain what they could do better next time.
Works great, I lose the irritation by pointing out my problem and they understand that what they are doing is giving someone a headache.
Tim, if you really work on openoffice, you must be a great guy. It's a shame that you live in a dream world.
Grammer and spelling FTW. How much of this did you want to know?
, people have no fucking clue.
