Dammit

[Pickles]

Arryn said:
Computer games are like sex, even when you are playing SP you are thinking about MP.

A stereotypical male fantasy. It's particularly rampant amongst those that are relationship-challenged and spend too much time in auto-erotic endeavors.


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I am not sure you really mean that. You are saying that when men are "perpetrating the sin of Onan" they are NOT thinking about having sex with someone else? How do you know? - I have good reason to believe that in the case of at least one man this is not true. You are also implying that women think differently & have different auto erotic fantasies, about what one wonders? Hmm getting far OT here.

My apologies if you are not a native speaker but you appear to have completely reversed the logic of what I said plus missed the fact that is was, above all, a joke.

Pickles

PS Who is making the CoC computer game.
PPS In the absence of Norfleet it important to maintain some personal animosities, a task which Arryn & I seem to have taken on ourselves

[magnate]

Yeah, not that this thread was originally about anything important, you understand.

[Arryn]

magnate said:
Yeah, not that this thread was originally about anything important, you understand.

Actually, it wasn't. The topic has been beaten to death (and beyond) over the past 6-8 months. There have been oodles of threads on it. (Do a search and see for yourself.) The devs have, repeatedly, said they don't see anything amiss with the system as is, and the majority of players agree with them. People whining about the subject once or twice a month has achieved, and will achieve, nothing. Well, nothing other than annoying the devs and those who don't feel that the system is broken.

[magnate]

Arryn said:

Actually, it wasn't. The topic has been beaten to death (and beyond) over the past 6-8 months. There have been oodles of threads on it. (Do a search and see for yourself.) The devs have, repeatedly, said they don't see anything amiss with the system as is, and the majority of players agree with them. People whining about the subject once or twice a month has achieved, and will achieve, nothing. Well, nothing other than annoying the devs and those who don't feel that the system is broken.

Blimey Arryn, don't you have a sense of humour? Or are you just so stupid that you need everything spelt out with an icon?

"Whining about the subject", if it continues to explore other options and pros and cons, will eventually lead to the game becoming even better, which is what everybody wants. It is supremely arrogant of you to consider the subject closed simply because a majority agrees with you.

CC

[Gandalf Parker]

magnate said:

Blimey Arryn, don't you have a sense of humour? Or are you just so stupid that you need everything spelt out with an icon?

"Whining about the subject", if it continues to explore other options and pros and cons, will eventually lead to the game becoming even better, which is what everybody wants. It is supremely arrogant of you to consider the subject closed simply because a majority agrees with you.

CC

Ive scrolled back a page full of Posts and couldnt quite pin down what it WAS that anyone was "whining" about. This thread is in danger.

[Arryn]

magnate said:
Or are you just so stupid that you need everything spelt out with an icon?

It is "supremely arrogant" of you to assume that anyone who disagrees with you is "stupid". It's also childish of you to resort to name-calling in order to make your point.

magnate said:
It is supremely arrogant of you to consider the subject closed simply because a majority agrees with you.

I never said it was closed. I *implied* that it's a waste of time. A distinction that you don't seem able to grasp. Perhaps if you'd ceased ranting at me long enough to actually read what I wrote, you wouldn't have missed that small, yet important detail.

[magnate]

Arryn said:
It is "supremely arrogant" of you to assume that anyone who disagrees with you is "stupid". It's also childish of you to resort to name-calling in order to make your point.

You have an interesting tendency to try to score points by twisting what other people write. I never said you were stupid because you disagree with me. I said you were stupid because you gave a serious response to an obviously jocular post.

If you really want to be pedantic, stupid is an adjective, not a name. Was it childish not to use a euphemism instead? Perhaps.

You also try to make people feel small by quoting their own text back at them, usually out of context. I can really see why some people dislike you. You give female gamers a very bad name.

Arryn said:

I never said it was closed. I *implied* that it's a waste of time. A distinction that you don't seem able to grasp. Perhaps if you'd ceased ranting at me long enough to actually read what I wrote, you wouldn't have missed that small, yet important detail.

Again, you are trying to present yourself as in some way superior, this time by drawing utterly an spurious distinction between your choice of words and mine to describe the same thing.

If you actually allowed people to disagree with you, you wouldn't have to argue so hard.

CC

[Cainehill]

magnate said:

You have an interesting tendency to try to score points by twisting what other people write. I never said you were stupid because you disagree with me. I said you were stupid because you gave a serious response to an obviously jocular post.

You didn't use a smiley. And you're bloody stupid if you think or expect that people can tell when you're trying to be jocular in a pure text medium when you _don't_ use emoticons or some other means to display the mood in which something was written.

This is a longtime problem with the internet and text mediums. Intelligent people, and even rutabagas if they're been on the net long enough, figured this out and use things like " " or " <sarcasm> ... </sarcasm> " or whatnot.

You don't have the clues of tone of voice, of body language, and usually not even the benefit of some knowledge of the other person.

And you posted a one liner that was at least as easily interpretted as sarcasm or bitterness than good natured humor / joking.

That's ... not particularly bright. And even worse is your response of indignity because someone didn't have the telepathy to know how you meant it!

Oh - that'll be five pounds for the tutoring in basic communications theory 101.

You also try to make people feel small by quoting their own text back at them, usually out of context. I can really see why some people dislike you. You give female gamers a very bad name.

Oh, Goddess forbid that anyone use what someone wrote against them! Maybe you'd prefer that they editting your words, misattributed who said what, and used subtle innuendo in conjunction with the words that you didn't exactly say?

I'm also curious how Arryn used what you wrote out of context. After all - it _was_ just a one line sentence of a post. Hard to use that out of context.

But hey! On a lighter note, I appreciate the fact that you're working to make _my_ gender look bad, because it makes me look better in comparison.

Cheerio!

[Arryn]

Pickles said:
You are also implying that women think differently & have different auto erotic fantasies,

As a general rule (FWIW), yes we do.

Pickles said:
about what one wonders?

Wonder all you want ...

Pickles said:
Hmm getting far OT here.

Indeed.

Pickles said:
PS Who is making the CoC computer game.

Headfirst. Bethesda (of Morrowind fame) is the publisher. The game's web page can be found here .

EDIT: the game's been delayed to Feb. of next year, dammit.

Pickles said:
PPS In the absence of Norfleet it important to maintain some personal animosities, a task which Arryn & I seem to have taken on ourselves

Nope. Graeme beat you to it many months ago. It's been a well-established fact that we mutually despise one another. (Ditto NTJedi.) While GD and I have been civil to one another recently (more a case of just ignoring each other), I'm sure it's merely a temporary abberation and things will return to their normal, heated level, eventually. Well, either heated, or half-baked. It's hard to tell at times.

So, you have a long, long ways to go before you achieve a level of animus that will place you in the exalted ranks of Norfleet et. al.