OT: Hostility in Forums

[bearclaw]

IMO, the best response to something like that would be:

"Your cities will burn with vengful fire!"

[AgentZero]

Well obviously he knew far more about all matters pertaining to the game than you. I mean, he was a forum admin! They don't just let anyone be a forum admin, you know. One must have played the game in question since beta at least, if not earlier, spend a majority of their time playing the game exploring every single facet of the game to gain an incomparable understanding of every possible way of doing everything in the game. A forum admin must have done everything there is to do in a game in every possible way, so that when they tell you the best way of doing something, you know it really is the very best, and only, way to do it.

A forum admin is also required to have a Masters degree in Psychology at least, so he can determine your exact psychological and mental capabilities by simply reading a few sentences, though a PhD to go along with his PhDs in Computer Science, Economics, Politics and Theology is preferable. A membership in Mensa is obviously a requirement, as well as a nymphomanic supermodel wife (who incidentally will also be a member of Mensa with several PhDs to her name, despite never leaving the bedroom for longer than it takes to eat and bathe).

Truly, forum admins are gods amongst men, and you should feel eternally grateful that one of these demi-gods was willing to sully himself by lowering himself to your level long enough to dignify your question with a response.



Throwing in a /sarcasm, just in case.

[narf poit chez BOOM]

Why, sarcasm? I never would have guessed!

* That was sarcasm.

[Randallw]

I made a mod once. I asked for advice and was told that for what I wanted it would take a lot of work but no one out and out told me it would be too hard for me. Of course enthusiastic to get it done I didn't realise how hard it was going to end up but I eventually got a working version done. It needed some polishing but by that stage I'd done enough. I've had enough of modding since then, what with having to allocate every part of the earth to nations, then creating characters, units, and events.

[mac5732]

from his/its response to you, I would theorize that just possibly.. he didn't know the answer Some admins in some forums, have the brain power of a pea, but to their own mind their mind is the size of Anartica.. so you see, one should not take their incoherent babble to heart. Since they are more then likely lower then road kill left overs to begin with. his/its answer to your inquiry just confirmed what everyone else on that forum already knew. That his knowledge of whatever game you were talking about, was beyond his/its own scope of brain activity. Its just elementary my dear watson. (he's probably a member of the game company anyway

[Xrati]

AgentZero, can you tell me why your sarcasm is so realistic that it's almost not funny?

Unfortunatly, not all admins are equal. This board enjoys some of the best that I've ever dealt with. AND to their credit I salute the time and effort they put forth toward making this a website that you'll want to continue to come to... [img]/threads/images/Graemlins/icon47.gif[/img]

[AgentZero]

Xrati, you, and I, for that matter, can thank my Irish mother for that. She gifted me with a very Irish sense of humour (which is essentially a British sense of humour with more cursing), so my definition of sarcasm is a bit different to the North American norm.

The object of sarcasm, to me, is to ridicule, and it is all the more enjoyable for all involved when the subject is unaware that they are being ridiculed. I'm reminded of the worn-out old joke that appears nearly every pre-teen high school sitcom, where some adult asks our antidisestablishmentarianist protagonist if they know what sarcasm means, to which our peppy teen rolls his/her eyes and replies, "NOOOooooooo."

This is not sarcasm. I'm not sure what it is. Mild douchebaggery, perhaps? The above example may draw a few laughs from younger viewers as the poor adult somehow misses the "sarcasm" and sets about explaining it, but when someone replies in a slightly curious tone, "Actually, no, I'm not familiar with the term. What is it exactly?" the entertainment value of watching someone unwittingly explaining sarcasm to the owner of a PhD in English is unparalleled.

[narf poit chez BOOM]

British humor is the best. Best comedy shows I've seen? British.

Worse comedy shows I've seen? US.

[Randallw]

In my experience, worst comedies? US remakes of British comedies.

A key factor I think is that British comedies have an idea what they want to write. Sort of "I have a few great ideas for episodes" and they condense it down into 6 great episodes a year. In the US they seem to have an idea and when they get made the writers have to wrack their brains to develop 26 epsiodes a year.

There's a great show called "Top Gear". It's about cars. Now that's normally an area I have zero interest in but it's entertaining because the presenters make jokes about stuff and have fun. If the car they're testing is a piece of junk they will call it a piece of junk. I read lately that Jay Leno thinks the idea of a US version is doomed as the presenters can't criticise anything in case the sponsors take offence.

There's a US remake of an Australian comedy in development. You can't help but read about here as it the original seems to be widely considered the epitome of Aussie humour. Me personally, I can't stand the piece of
!@#$%. I fully expect the remake to burst into flames 5 minutes before it first airs. What do I know though, there's another panel quiz show I thought would be cancelled after one epsiode, whcih kept going. It was vaguely entertaining though. Actually now I come to think of it it hasn't been on for awhile. I guess it did get axed.

Addendum: Not that I mean to go on a rant, but on a related note, I recently saw the remake of Solaris. Now I've never seen the original, although since it's Soviet Union Sci-fi and I had the misfortune of seeing one of those once I doubt it was any better, but after roughly two minutes I thought "This is the most abominably boring sci-fi film I have ever seen". It's like the 5 minutes at the end of 2001 where Dave is living the rest of his life in the one room, only it goes for 2 hours. I've never understood exactly what was happening in 2001, but there is a difference between being confused and being bored out of your skull.

I heard it has a nice twist with one guy being replaced but I couldn't bring myself to torture myself waiting to see it. Yes, yes I know I didn't watch the whole thing, but boring me within 2 minutes is not conducive to making me care about the rest.

[capnq]

Randallw said:
In my experience, worst comedies? US remakes of British comedies.

A key factor I think is that British comedies have an idea what they want to write. Sort of "I have a few great ideas for episodes" and they condense it down into 6 great episodes a year. In the US they seem to have an idea and when they get made the writers have to wrack their brains to develop 26 epsiodes a year.

Not only that, but the show has to last four seasons/100 episodes to be considered viable for syndication, which is almost pure profits.

There's a great show called "Top Gear". It's about cars. Now that's normally an area I have zero interest in but it's entertaining because the presenters make jokes about stuff and have fun. If the car they're testing is a piece of junk they will call it a piece of junk. I read lately that Jay Leno thinks the idea of a US version is doomed as the presenters can't criticise anything in case the sponsors take offence.

That's something that could work on PBS (Public Broadcasting Service; AFAIK, the only nonprofit TV network in the US). PBS is where the original versions of "Brit-coms" get aired. (Also on BBC America, but that's a cable channel so I've never seen it.)

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