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Re: Obnoxious over-reaction vs. sugar coating
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lugnet.general
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Fri, 18 Apr 2003 19:17:50 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Mike Rayhawk writes:
> In lugnet.general, Bruce Schlickbernd writes:
> > In lugnet.general, Mike Rayhawk writes:
> > It gets worse: Lego, computer message boards, gaming. The last is damning!
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> lol
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> I was hoping someone would pick up on that! It's like the triple crown of
> geekdom.
I just got a huge 5' by 9' green indoor/outdoor carpet for a Fantasy Rules!
miniatures battle with Lego. Geek, geek, geek. Still, I could ratchet it
up one more notch by using a game actually designed for Lego (which I keep
meaning to do).
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> > So, I guess I am one of the people that you view as someone jumping on
> > legitimate criticism since I effectively disagreed with Tom.
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> Well no, you're one of the people I view as ignoring the criticism and going
> straight to jumping on Tom. Nothing wrong with that, since you seem to have
> a legitimate beef with him informed by years of experience. Probably Tim
> was coming from the same point of view, I just didn't know it at the time; I
> hadn't realized Tom was such a notorious character and had built up such a
> stock of ill will.
This is actually correct - I ignored the criticism and went straight for
Tom. Mostly because I felt it would be belaboring the point: disapproval
and apologies had been given on several fronts already. Since from that
standpoint, I didn't see what repeating that accomplished, I refrained. But
to establish the context, yes, I find whining about lack of response not
particularly adult, but then again, not every poster is an adult (In
retrospect, I was harsher on Tim in one exchange than I feel was fair to
someone who was 17 at the time. He wrote so well that it disguised his age,
but had I known I would have given him more slack).
I was writing responses to the rest, but since they were all pretty much in
agreement with what you said, I'll leave it at that.
-->Bruce<--
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Message has 2 Replies:
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| (...) Hey, don't discriminate on age! :) Though, some younger teenagers tend to go through mood swings in which they alternatively moan about how bad the world is and then suddenly respond to evey MOC posted in the past month or so. Also, some less (...) (21 years ago, 18-Apr-03, to lugnet.general)
| | | Re: Obnoxious geekdom
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| (...) You have no idea just how high the scale goes, you should see some of the things people have showed me over the years. I was pretty impressed by the Palm OS BrikWars calculator, and then there was a guy who made a Java app that let you play (...) (21 years ago, 19-Apr-03, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) lol I was hoping someone would pick up on that! It's like the triple crown of geekdom. (...) Well no, you're one of the people I view as ignoring the criticism and going straight to jumping on Tom. Nothing wrong with that, since you seem to (...) (21 years ago, 18-Apr-03, to lugnet.general)
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