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<blockquote data-quote="Doc_Klueless" data-source="post: 230257" data-attributes="member: 261">OK. I know I'm gonna get yelled at but a couple of these comments are justl.... well... wrong.This one in particular. I use a computer. I use one all the time. I'm fairly computer literate. However, I can't program, don't want to program, and probably never will program. Evenso, I know a piece of crap software when I see it. (The current incarnation of PCGen is not a POS software!) Telling someone that they have no reason to bitch about something if they can't create something similar is bunk. Newb, shnewb. You want your software to spread and be useful to the D&amp;D community at large? Make it newb friendly. The new PCGen is leaps and bounds in that direction from previous incarnations. Before, I wouldn't even touch it any longer than it took me to realize I could do a&nbsp; character faster on paper. Now it's much nicer.And that means...? Look. Food that's in the dumpster out back of my apartment is free, too. I'm not going to go eat it. Free does not mean quality. Free doesn't mean you don't have the right to complain. Especially in a message that was obviously a private email. Maybe I'm being a bit harsh. I probably am. But I'm getting tired of hearing these same statements everytime a newb complains about the program in a moment of frustration brought about by that very same program. It's possibly the number one reason I didn't bother to learn to use PCGen earlier. If I asked a question, I was usually met with condescension and/or derogatory remarks about my intelligence. It certainly didn't bring a potential PCGen user (and possible contributor) into the fold.However, some of your comments are spot on:</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Doc_Klueless, post: 230257, member: 261"] [i]OK. I know I'm gonna get yelled at but a couple of these comments are justl.... well... wrong.[/i] This one in particular. I use a computer. I use one all the time. I'm fairly computer literate. However, I can't program, don't want to program, and probably never will program. Evenso, I know a piece of crap software when I see it. (The current incarnation of PCGen is [b]not[/b] a POS software!) Telling someone that they have no reason to bitch about something if they can't create something similar is bunk. Newb, shnewb. You want your software to spread and be useful to the D&D community at large? Make it newb friendly. The new PCGen is leaps and bounds in that direction from previous incarnations. Before, I wouldn't even touch it any longer than it took me to realize I could do a character faster on paper. Now it's [i]much[/i] nicer. And that means...? Look. Food that's in the dumpster out back of my apartment is free, too. I'm not going to go eat it. Free does not mean quality. Free doesn't mean you don't have the right to complain. Especially in a message that was obviously a private email. Maybe I'm being a bit harsh. I probably am. But I'm getting tired of hearing these same statements everytime a newb complains about the program in a moment of frustration brought about by that very same program. It's possibly the number one reason I didn't bother to learn to use PCGen earlier. If I asked a question, I was usually met with condescension and/or derogatory remarks about my intelligence. It certainly didn't bring a potential PCGen user (and possible contributor) into the fold. [i]However, some of your comments are spot on:[/i] [/QUOTE]

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