Hahahaha, Mark Ellis GFY. Ownz0r3d by the Deacon remix! ----- Original Message ----- From: "Eric (Deacon)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, October 25, 2004 06:43 PM Subject: Re: [hlds_linux] another crasher :(
> In a bold display of creativity, Mark Ellis wrote: >> Eric, >> >> Please read my mail and the mail I was making a reply to before quoting me >> in your mails and making your assumptions based on an edited reply to my >> original mail. > > Wow, that made no sense at all. I clicked reply and top-posted. That's > pretty simple stuff. The only assumption I made was that you were more > intelligent than you clearly are. For this, I apologize. > >> Someone said valve need "personal time" and this was their reason for valve >> not releasing a patch for the server, the "down the beach" comment could >> have been "at home with wife" "down the pub" or "watching footy" > > Right, so, did you completely and utterly miss the point of my > questioning that implication that Valve employees are just lazy, > corporate pigs who don't give two shits about you, much less their > product? Why would you bother to expound something that needs no > clarification whatsoever, even a little bit? > >> because of very simple bugs that could have been picked up in a real beta >> test or could be fixed very quickly yet still seems to take valve 3 working >> days to fix. > > I know, right? I mean, I for one am shocked and disappointed that Valve > didn't release a completely perfect complex software product right out > the door. That it could take 3 working days to fix is utterly abhorrent. > > In reality, of course, you're the kind of trollish tool that software > companies, businessmen, and intelligent people in general hate. As I > work for a prominent software company, I'm pretty much right there in > the bullseye on these kinds of things. If you've actually had > experience with such things, you'd understand why 3 working days to fix > a bug that automatically rolls out to the entire install base is pretty > damn impressive. > >> You then go on to make further quotes from the reply of witch I was not the >> author, perhaps you should move to a threaded mail client so you can >> actually work out who said what and who replied to what before you have to >> post using profanity to get your point across. > > Holy fuck. I'm trying to figure out whether you, someone who uses > "X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook, Build 11.0.6353", are pulling my > leg or whether you're trolling out of sheer ignorance. I'm not sure > either is forgivable. I use Thunderbird, and I have all hlds_linux > emails dropped into a specific subfolder underneath my Inbox, and the > emails are listed in threaded view. What's *spectacularly* awesome is > that it has no bearing whatsofuckingever on this inane, irrelevant, > phantom problem you have invented. Strictly because I'm hoping against > hope that your arrogance stems from ignorance rather than from > concentrated asshattery, I will remind you that I simply replied to an > email and top-posted, eliminating ANY concern about chopped up edits. > > Here, because I'm such a nice guy, I'm including the entire block of > quoted text from MY email so you can get the gist of it this time > around. Once you get it, ponder how it makes no fucking difference > either way. If you still have problems understanding, don't bother to > request further clarification. Instead, end yourself. > > In a bold display of creativity, Mihai Badila wrote: > > On Fri, Oct 22, 2004 at 09:14:50PM +0100 or thereabouts, Mark Ellis > wrote: > > > >>Well we all need personal time but while Valve are down the beach I and > many > >>others are sitting here putting servers back up as fast as they are taken > >>down because the smart guys at mygot release this info end of the week > >>knowing that there will be 3-4 days before valve even start to look at a > >>fix. > >> > >>We had a beta test and what a joke that was one map slow updates you > could > >>hardly call it a beta more just a hardware test. > > > > > > Agreed. > > > > > >>Like many others I think valve is too slow at releasing these fixes, we > all > >>moved over to steam so they could send out lots of small fixes fast but > from > >>what I can see steam is just a way of them collecting more data on users > >>than rolling out fixes. > > > > > > Steam is primary a money making machine. Its purpose is also delivering > > patches, content etc. but think.. Steam does a hell of a job for > Valve and > a > > really poor job for the little guy [valve steam product user]. And yes > > INDEPENDENCE from Vivendi [forgot about that one]. > > > > I'm not against Steam but no other company has ever used such a > method of > > control for the money. > > > > This list is about 80% filled with frustration when you read the mails. > > Kinda makes you think cs, dod and others were doing fine back in the days > > when they were free. > > -- > Eric (the Deacon remix) _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux
