What I been sayin'

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I have seven toes on each foot,

~ Memory

Enabran,

I was honored enough by your words.

I am quite blown away by the diploma itself.

Thank you so much!

I believe it will be placed, on my own Wall of Pride, right next to that Trifecta Neg-Rate Certificate that Prokofy issued to me after I blasted him with my watermelon launcher as Aimee had coerced me into doing.

Er, I mean: ... after I blasted him with my watermelon launcher, full stop.

Yeah, come to think of it, I had nothing but praise for Lordfly for his whole leading of the RAC thing, and defended him plenty when people started bitching about him not being able to be at a meeting or something, as if the whole thing depended on him alone.

I thank you for your kind words. And I, personally, don't think a person's spelling or wording of things is anywhere near as important than the message they have to convey, and I also don't worry about anybody's typos anywhere. I think I have said that before. My own friends and family irl are representative of all levels of interests, skills, backgrounds, and education. So I regret if I come off as elitist in any way in defending myself here against accusations of being unworthy of giving my opinions, being stupid, not being able to form a sentence, etc. I hate elitist.

Remember: Most of this view of what I say stems from one thing and one thing only, and has from the beginning, and we. all. know. exactly. what that was. If it hadn't been for that, I can assure you NONE of this would have come down the way it has.

Moving on. You may view it as jabbering on about shit, dunning and unhelpful and all that, but let me explain a bit. I don't get involved in anything new without asking a LOT of questions. Pointed ones, sometimes, and always flavored with and coming from my own impressions and opinions (which more often than not, reflect those of the average person). I am just not used to being told to shut up and go away just because, to quote Enabran, who said, when I explained my MB typo, "No, it's because you don't know what you are talking about." That sort of thing is a horrible way to treat anyone. Most people would just slink away, I guess.

Similarly, when people ask me questions - other players, children, I don't care who - I don't talk down to them about it, use my knowledge (which is considerable) as a bludgeon, or sequester my knowledge. Now sometimes a person just doesn't feel like explaining stuff, and that's fine - I often don't. But to become impatient with another's quest to learn and/or with the opinions they express during the conversation - you are better off just to not be in the conversation, and let someone with more patience handle it, I think.

Add to all that the fact that I've spent my adult life asking people questions about subjects I have no knowledge of. And not easy questions, either. Questions that generally reflect what is on the reader's mind, whether or not that individual wants to hear such questions. I'm good at it because I really do want to KNOW about what I'm interviewing about. I've had doctors spend hours in interviews with me, patiently explaining the parts I don't understand, and then answering the questions I have that stem from those parts. DOCTORS! And I do represent the regular, average person, who doesn't know anything about that area of expertise. Consequently, I'm not the least ashamed to not know the meaning of anything. It's my job to find out things I don't already know, and usually from the ground up. And to know it WELL. No easy, stock answers, and then yeah, ok, I've done my job and I can go away now.

Being ashamed to ask the questions, to admit your ignorance in an area, prevents you from ever learning. I am never ashamed, and NO one should ever be ashamed, or made to feel ashamed.

Having said all that, yes, I realize it does get annoying to deal with someone like me who was born with an overweening curiosity. It is annoying to deal with someone who keeps on and keeps on over every last little detail; I realize that. But you may notice I don't ask many personal questions, unless a person seems open to it. Often people know quite a bit more about my friends than I do, because I'm super careful not to get annoying with that.

But technical stuff - geez! Playing the game - we ALL do that. We are ALL experts on that. I figure for every "stupid" question I ask, 25 more people have the same question, but are too embarrassed to ask it. IRL, for every "stupid" question I ask, some ten million people or so are wanting the answer.

And you know what? After all that where I tried to find out the future of textures, and people explained that we had just been spoiled, and though there were bugs that would be fixed, this was essentially just gonna be the way it was, and so on, I concluded that, well, this was just gonna be the way it was.

Today, though, I decided my confusion was probably largely due to the fact that the answer really is, THEY JUST DON'T KNOW. Because just as people are embarassed to ask stupid questions, people are also disinclined to ever just say, "Well, I really don't know." I've learned to recognize that kind of answer, too, when that is the answer it comes down to. (But it ain't easy to get to it.)

Now, I have reached my conclusion on the texture question, and the answer is - nobody really knows; the Lindens are trying; and hopefully it won't be a matter of us having to get better textures, scripts, etc. But - nobody really knows at this point. That's the bottom line.

Anyone who is infuriated, frustrated, or totally unable to deal with ignorance (i.e., lack of knowledge about a field) shouldn't be even trying to turn that ignorance into knowledge, imo. They should let someone else do it.

coco

/me bows

Never have I seen such exceptional valor as to require an honor above that of the Order of the Golden siegeBot itself. But, never one to neglect my responsibilities of recognition, there is the Degree. I'm not sure when, if ever, I shall have the pleasure of awarding another, but I am well-satisfied to have it now at my disposal.

You have also been gifted a siegeBot! Enjoy it well!

Hold on, let me just mop up a bit of that self-righteousness. It got all over my pant leg, yeugh.

It's ignorance declared to be authoritative that infuriates anyone.

Me? In particular.

Actually, they should get Lawrence to help with SL, he probably unit tests.

YAY!

*F9 default dance of joy*

I ... Enabran, I just ... I don't know what to ...

/me blushes, blushes, blushes.

Except nobody did that.

But hey, who cares, right?

o rly.

Enabran? I no longer care what you think.

coco

That sort of loses its edge after the fourth or fifth time you say it, Cocoanut.

Show me where I said it before. I've forgotten if I did.

coco

You have. Too many times for me to bother wading through via the search tool. Way too many possible results to narrow down.

Thiis is a public service announcement. Now that the rest of you have finished, Cory Edo is about to whip out her dick. You have been warned.

You conclude most of your correspondence with Enabran with something similar by the end of the thread, he's right. Sometimes you add in "There is a lot I could say about you, but I won't".

Damn, you've jinxed it. I was on the edge of my fucking seat for that one.

That took long enough.

I wait with anxious anticipation.

Sorry, but you still got Magnum to call you a big meanie head.

Dude, I could get a nun to pull that off.

Here's my Dick AND my Johnny.





That having been whipped, there's nothing less convincing than someone that desperately tries to talk you into the fact that they're intelligent.

I'm not sure how much more definitive you get than this, folks.

Yeah, well there's nothing more disturbing than inner circle jerk that happens here all too frequently.

o rly!

You know, you don't have to be so mean.

Circle jerks, dick measuring, add a techno beat to this thread and it's practically gay porn.