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ORIGINAL: bradfordkay

You mean that there is an organization of people like Brady??? Noooo...... trying to read posts written like those sentences in Pasternaksi's article gives me a headache... I can understand the occasional typo or mispelled word, but enough is enough! [:'(]

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ORIGINAL: Apollo11

Hi all,

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ORIGINAL: Don Bowen

A new style of posting seems to be evolving on the forum and I’d like to be sure that I understand it’s structure.

First, terminology: “ridiculous”, “nonsense”, “flawed”, “foolishness”, “stupid nonsense”, and “stupidity” all seem to mean the same thing: “something doesn’t work like I think it should”

And, of course “fix it”, which appears to mean “make it work exactly like I think it should”.

And it’s important to be as rude and forceful as possible. After all, there’s nothing like being rude to people to make them want to help you.

Proper spelling seems to have gone out of style.

Dan and Joe - please do not think that WitP community (and I think that is the proper word because we have been together for such long time - since UV) is feeling like some posts you mention above indicate...

99.9999% of us here love and respect you guys [sm=00000436.gif] and your tremendous effort - please continue just like you were doing! [&o][&o][&o]


Leo "Apollo11"

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ORIGINAL: RevRick

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ORIGINAL: Apollo11

Hi all,

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ORIGINAL: Don Bowen

A new style of posting seems to be evolving on the forum and I’d like to be sure that I understand it’s structure.

First, terminology: “ridiculous”, “nonsense”, “flawed”, “foolishness”, “stupid nonsense”, and “stupidity” all seem to mean the same thing: “something doesn’t work like I think it should”

And, of course “fix it”, which appears to mean “make it work exactly like I think it should”.

And it’s important to be as rude and forceful as possible. After all, there’s nothing like being rude to people to make them want to help you.

Proper spelling seems to have gone out of style.

Dan and Joe - please do not think that WitP community (and I think that is the proper word because we have been together for such long time - since UV) is feeling like some posts you mention above indicate...

99.9999% of us here love and respect you guys [sm=00000436.gif] and your tremendous effort - please continue just like you were doing! [&o][&o][&o]


Leo "Apollo11"

To which this part of the congregation responded "AAAMMMEEENNNN!"

Don't mind us, guys. We're like a bunch of sailors. If we ain't b*tching about something, we ain't happy!

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ORIGINAL: pasternakski

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ORIGINAL: Roger Neilson

Of course if this forum had a spellchecker

Roger, Roger, Roger. A lot of these knuckleheads can't even spell spellchecker.

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ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

On the spelling spectrum, from the functionally illiterate to the National Spelling Bee champions, most of us are somewhere in the middle, especially those of us who attended public schools [8D] Living in a glass house, therefore, I tend to hold my fire..still, there are times when the spelling error is so obvious it is incompatible with the normal functioning of the nervous system.

Don is right, of course. Polite requests are more likely to be heeded. Its a little like telling a waiter your steak is **** and sending back to the kitchen...you are just asking for some ...adulteration..[;)]..when it comes back.

If you tick off the code writers enough, they could easily make all 80 kg bomb hits cause a magazine explosion on any Essex class carrier[:)]

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ORIGINAL: Ron Saueracker

I'm still trying to figure out how a single copy can be boobytrapped for the owner.[;)]

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ORIGINAL: Ron Saueracker

I'm still trying to figure out how a single copy can be boobytrapped for the owner.[;)]

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ORIGINAL: Ron Saueracker

I'm still trying to figure out how a single copy can be boobytrapped for the owner.[;)]

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ORIGINAL: Terminus

Language barrier or not, a lot of unproductive whining has been going on...

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ORIGINAL: pasternakski
...and anger, T. I just don't understand the anger.

@ Oliver: we are trying to lighten the tone here and put things back into a friendlier light. I for one would hate to see Don or Joe or both get fed up with the criticism and pack it in. They have done a marvelous job, and have a bug or two yet to kill.

So, let's keep it on the cordial side, shall we, ya creeps (this word does not translate well into any other language)?

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ORIGINAL: castor troy
Don, I really appreciate your work. The problem with people coming up with such posts (including me) is, that there are things (still from the beginning) that ARE e.g. ridicoulos. [:(] I think in the first year mostly the bugs were a problem which are nearly gone now (plz don´t shoot me![;)]). And now there are the problems in some aspects of the game with how the game was designed and people are crying about it and probably have done it earlier too. At this stage most players have played the game for 2 years and I think I can say that those players, including me, love this game.

Again, I really love this game and please don´t take such posts as personal attacks as the people around here surely appreciate your work! But still there are aspects that were simply overlooked during the design and can´t be explained as historical nor realistical. I think the "rude" intonation of those posts is because people are having a nerve break down in front of their monitors when they see 50000:2000 casualties when attacking a base that has been cut off for 6 months or when 600 planes are shot down for 20 defenders and not a single plane came through even if the attacker was high experienced (which wasn´t so in reality, I know). And so on... It´s not just that people want it exactly to be like they think it should be, but most of them want it to be like that it´s possible to understand it with common sense that this could be realistic (not historic).

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ORIGINAL: Terminus

Now did he mean "the wit of a mine" or "the wit of a mime"? Both are less than ideal...

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ORIGINAL: pasternakski

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ORIGINAL: Terminus

Now did he mean "the wit of a mine" or "the wit of a mime"? Both are less than ideal...

Yah. And I thought threads were to help you unscrew.

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Proper spelling seems to have gone out of style

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ORIGINAL: m10bob
"expert critics"