gamesStupid people piss me off, as any of my friend will tell you. I don't mean that they get me a little agitated and I seem a little less friendly for a little while, I mean a good solid idiot-encounter can ruin an otherwise fine day. I know, it seems ignorant/mean/whatever of me to say these things, but it's true, and if I value anything, it's the truth. From the highest echelons of government bureaucracy to grocery store clerks and school teachers.
Heres a prime example of stupidity on a massive scale that simply proves my point, so I believe. Two years ago, I was in summer school (some of you may hear the word hypocrite floating through your brain, but I originally failed due to a reason not dissimilar to the situation I'm about to describe), for computers of all things. Within my school district file, I already had a big red post-it (literally) that said "Be careful with computers", with good reason; I'm a bit of a geek, with the usual geek intelligence and love of pranks.
It was week two, about halfway through the week, when I met another kid in the class who seemed to be at least intelligent enough to have some fun with. After playing a few machine-based pranks on him, he went home and learned some of his own, and used them against me. At this point in time, I didn't understand about escalation and the such (well, I did, but I hadn't take it into account), so this kept up until he finally dropped the network to it's knees. The school techs had no way of fixing it, but they determined that suspicious activity had been generating from our computers and we were both promptly hauled before the principle. Sadly for the other kid, he had evidence on his person that proved he did it, and I went back to class.
Here's the kicker: as I'm in the process of fixing the system, I'm called back and told the other kid ratted on me that I broke it. The one with the evidence on his person, in his handwriting, with every log pointing to his machine, "ratted out" me out. Love the logic, eh? When I challenge the principle's thought process, I got a simple "because I say so, and you shouldn't question it", but my mother (when called to be informed of my 'crime') also asked, and after pushing, got told that I intruded on the network (a detention, not a drop-F), which she in turn challenged, and was told that I (and now, I'm quoting) was " too advanced in the subject for any one teacher to be able to effectively monitor [me], even if they were assigned to watch just [me]."
That's right kids. I took the same class 3 times, because I was too advanced for the teachers. Stunning ain't it?
Anyway, I love that story, its one of those times that ultimately proved that I am the genius that so many people so wrongly believe is mere ego. On to my next topic though. More stupid people and computer things.
The people out there who claim to be "geeks" or (proudly and sadly) "nerds", while actually lacking any geek-like trait of talent, they piss me off beyond a shadow of a doubt. Do you know what Assembly, FORTRAN, and C are? Have you ever played a PnP RPG? Do you still watch cartoons and pirate old t.v. shows because they are funnier than the crap on today? Have you ever said the words "That looks good enough that I might buy it instead of pirating it..."? If not, you aren't making a strong case.
I was talking to my girlfriend today and heard one of her friends, who - by the snippets I'd heard up till then - regarded himself to be a tre posh geek (geeks are never posh, it's why we're geeks. we can be loved and adored, but we are not cool) actually said "my network connection is like 100 megabytes per second and I still download stuff at around a meg..." In that moment, I've never wanted more to have a law that requires a licensing process for computer use. Digressing though - the geek rant shall come later.
Our video-game is making absolutely great progress... that is to say that I've not heard from any of my development team in about a week or so, and I'm hating the DirectX crap I'm having to learn for it, but it's getting done. We have our main character and the world on the grow, as well as a pretty solid idea for the game story flow. Right now, I'm outlining the missions (looking to be 12), and then I'll be on to customizations I guess.
~Mr. Mobius
"I swear to god chachi, call me Morpheus again, and I'm going to bean you with a server! It's Mobius! Moe-bee-us."
Heres a prime example of stupidity on a massive scale that simply proves my point, so I believe. Two years ago, I was in summer school (some of you may hear the word hypocrite floating through your brain, but I originally failed due to a reason not dissimilar to the situation I'm about to describe), for computers of all things. Within my school district file, I already had a big red post-it (literally) that said "Be careful with computers", with good reason; I'm a bit of a geek, with the usual geek intelligence and love of pranks.
It was week two, about halfway through the week, when I met another kid in the class who seemed to be at least intelligent enough to have some fun with. After playing a few machine-based pranks on him, he went home and learned some of his own, and used them against me. At this point in time, I didn't understand about escalation and the such (well, I did, but I hadn't take it into account), so this kept up until he finally dropped the network to it's knees. The school techs had no way of fixing it, but they determined that suspicious activity had been generating from our computers and we were both promptly hauled before the principle. Sadly for the other kid, he had evidence on his person that proved he did it, and I went back to class.
Here's the kicker: as I'm in the process of fixing the system, I'm called back and told the other kid ratted on me that I broke it. The one with the evidence on his person, in his handwriting, with every log pointing to his machine, "ratted out" me out. Love the logic, eh? When I challenge the principle's thought process, I got a simple "because I say so, and you shouldn't question it", but my mother (when called to be informed of my 'crime') also asked, and after pushing, got told that I intruded on the network (a detention, not a drop-F), which she in turn challenged, and was told that I (and now, I'm quoting) was " too advanced in the subject for any one teacher to be able to effectively monitor [me], even if they were assigned to watch just [me]."
That's right kids. I took the same class 3 times, because I was too advanced for the teachers. Stunning ain't it?
Anyway, I love that story, its one of those times that ultimately proved that I am the genius that so many people so wrongly believe is mere ego. On to my next topic though. More stupid people and computer things.
The people out there who claim to be "geeks" or (proudly and sadly) "nerds", while actually lacking any geek-like trait of talent, they piss me off beyond a shadow of a doubt. Do you know what Assembly, FORTRAN, and C are? Have you ever played a PnP RPG? Do you still watch cartoons and pirate old t.v. shows because they are funnier than the crap on today? Have you ever said the words "That looks good enough that I might buy it instead of pirating it..."? If not, you aren't making a strong case.
I was talking to my girlfriend today and heard one of her friends, who - by the snippets I'd heard up till then - regarded himself to be a tre posh geek (geeks are never posh, it's why we're geeks. we can be loved and adored, but we are not cool) actually said "my network connection is like 100 megabytes per second and I still download stuff at around a meg..." In that moment, I've never wanted more to have a law that requires a licensing process for computer use. Digressing though - the geek rant shall come later.
Our video-game is making absolutely great progress... that is to say that I've not heard from any of my development team in about a week or so, and I'm hating the DirectX crap I'm having to learn for it, but it's getting done. We have our main character and the world on the grow, as well as a pretty solid idea for the game story flow. Right now, I'm outlining the missions (looking to be 12), and then I'll be on to customizations I guess.
~Mr. Mobius
"I swear to god chachi, call me Morpheus again, and I'm going to bean you with a server! It's Mobius! Moe-bee-us."
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