Save My Game - Goes off like a bomb!

[molonel]

Not at all. In fact, I believe my original comments were fairly nuanced in and of themselves. What does that have to do with the numerous disparate opinions and observations expressed in the thread converging to provoke a point-of-view changing moment of epiphany on my part?

My "Limp Sarcasm Meter" (tm) is clanging in the background when I read, "Computers are better than people at every last freakin' thing on the planet" or "Computers are better than people in every single way. This thread has completely convinced me of that. Humans suck. Computers rule. Bring on the Matrix!"

But hey, man. Whatever blows your hair back. If you like sticking the sword under your arm and squirting ketchup packets on your shirt, while moaning, "I am slain!" it's your time and internet connection.

I learned even more about computer games in this thread than I knew, previously. I prefer tabletop games, personally, but I appreciated what people have to say who play them more than I do, and certainly when game designers chime in, I appreciate their insights.

 

[Ourph]

My "Limp Sarcasm Meter" (tm) is clanging in the background when I read, "Computers are better than people at every last freakin' thing on the planet" or "Computers are better than people in every single way. This thread has completely convinced me of that. Humans suck. Computers rule. Bring on the Matrix!"

That's one of the great things about computers. There interpretation of input isn't colored by inaccurate assumptions.

 

[molonel]

That's one of the great things about computers. There interpretation of input isn't colored by inaccurate assumptions.

Unfortunately, anyone who's ever worked with OCR software knows better.

Computers are only an extension of the imagination and creativity of human beings. Computers do some things much faster, but they possess all the same glories and foibles of human nature.

Because humans designed them.

But I'm sorry. I interrupted your monologue. Weren't you about to spurt ketchup from your mouth, and say something about the Matrix, and computers being perfect?

 

[Ourph]

Unfortunately, anyone who's ever worked with OCR software knows better.

Computers are only an extension of the imagination and creativity of human beings. Computers do some things much faster, but they possess all the same glories and foibles of human nature.

Because humans designed them.

Exactly. The world will be a better place when computers are able to design and program themselves.

 

[molonel]

Exactly. The world will be a better place when computers are able to design and program themselves.

Look, man.

When I first started posting on message forums, the whole typing-stamina, back-and-forth, see-who-blinks-first thing was all the rage on political forums where the flamewars went on for WEEKS at a time.

I won't say I've outgrown it, but especially over trivia like this, it just doesn't get me hot and hard, anymore.

Do you have a point, or do you just want the last word? Because if that's all you want, then you can have it.

 

[Ourph]

Look, man.

When I first started posting on message forums, the whole typing-stamina, back-and-forth, see-who-blinks-first thing was all the rage on political forums where the flamewars went on for WEEKS at a time.

I won't say I've outgrown it, but especially over trivia like this, it just doesn't get me hot and hard, anymore.

Do you have a point, or do you just want the last word? Because if that's all you want, then you can have it.

I'm just responding to what you are saying. I assumed since you were quoting me and writing stuff about what I said we were having a conversation.

 

[molonel]

I'm just responding to what you are saying. I assumed since you were quoting me and writing stuff about what I said we were having a conversation.

A conversation is a two-way street. Even when presented with evidence, you insist on the dramatic overstatement of what nobody has ever argued instead of simply acknowledging that you could have learned something.

It's really just an unbroken monologue that could best be summarized as a lament that someone spilled sand into a small, tender orifice.

Computers are simply a medium through which human beings express their creativity. Just a like a paint brush, or a pencil, or a word processor, or a pair of dance shoes, or a camera.

 

[Ourph]

A conversation is a two-way street. Even when presented with evidence, you insist on the dramatic overstatement of what nobody has ever argued instead of simply acknowledging that you could have learned something.

I think I did acknowledge that I learned something, that's pretty much the definition of an epiphany. I may not have learned what you were trying to "teach" but you weren't the only one contributing ideas and a point of view to the thread. Sorry if that irks you. :\

 

[molonel]

I think I did acknowledge that I learned something, that's pretty much the definition of an epiphany. I may not have learned what you were trying to "teach" but you weren't the only one contributing ideas and a point of view to the thread. Sorry if that irks you. :\

Generally, when I get irked, it's because someone made a point that I need to learn from, and I have a hard time admitting it. Watching you fall on your wet noodle over and over again, and strain an already overstrained line past the breaking point until it dissolves into a wet soup of insincere ephiphanies and tired, overbaked condescension doesn't so much irk me as bore me.

 

[Ourph]

doesn't so much irk me as bore me.

Then why are you still dragging this out?