[gameprogrammer] Re: game engine?
- From: brianevans <brianevans@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: gameprogrammer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2005 10:51:42 -0600
Does anyone else sense the irony here?
(Mod: Please delete other post. Forgot to change from address.)
At 11:54 PM 1/24/2005, you wrote:
>Why do I need to acknowledge a correction when there's no correction to
>acknowledge? Id Software says they released the source code to Quake 3. I
>said they released the source code.
>
>Being "technically" correct is no excuse for him being an idiot picking
>fights over stupid little details. Especially when even the software
>company that released the code disagrees with him.
>
>It takes a special kind of stupid to do what Jacob did.
>
>I've been on the net long enough to not be surprised by this though.
>There's people like him in every forum. Their entire self-worth is based on
>nitpicking details in a vain effort to impress people.
>
>I'm not impressed.
>
>
>
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "brianevans" <brianevans@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>To: <gameprogrammer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Sent: Monday, January 24, 2005 10:00 PM
>Subject: [gameprogrammer] Re: game engine?
>
>
> > I believe Jacob was, technically, more correct. Why not just note the
> > correction and move on?
> >
> >
> > At 09:54 PM 1/24/2005, you wrote:
> > > > You need to chill.
> > >
> > >I'm not the one starting stupid arguments in some misguided effort to
>sound
> > >like they know something.
> > >
> > >It's a good thing we have you here or I would have gotten away with
>saying
> > >that Quake 3's code has been around for a long time for public
>consumption.
> > >
> > >Oh but wait, it has.
> > >
> > > > You should type what you mean.
> > >
> > >I do. You should learn to read.
> > >
> > >"This is the combined *source code* for Quake III Arena and Quake III:
>Team
> > >Arena. It can be used to build the 1.27g point release or the Team Arena
> > >release. It contains buildable project files and all related game source
> > >code as well as prebuilt tool executables."
> > >
> > >http://www.idsoftware.com/business/techdownloads/
> > >
> > >You better hurry up and write a letter to Id Software telling them
>they're
> > >wrong and they didn't actually release the source code.
> > >
> > >Dumbass.
> > >
> > >Ben Kucenski
> > >www.icarusindie.com
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >----- Original Message -----
> > >From: "Jacob Briggs" <jacob_briggs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > >To: <gameprogrammer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > >Sent: Monday, January 24, 2005 7:27 PM
> > >Subject: [gameprogrammer] Re: game engine?
> > >
> > >
> > > > Ben Kucenski wrote:
> > > >
> > > > >Obviously it wasn't misleading to you because you knew the extent of
>the
> > > > >source that was available. And hence "corrected" me.
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > That doesnt make any sense, but you certainly dont like being
>corrected.
> > > >
> > > > >When I said the code was available I didn't say "all" of it now did
>I?
> > > > >
> > > > oh, you got me. ZIIING!!!! Because its obvious that when you say
>"Quake
> > > > 3, Half-Life, and other major games have had their source code opened
> > > > for a long time" you didnt really mean all of it. I was playing an
> > > > elaborate joke.
> > > >
> > > > >You
> > > > >were *alledgedly* mislead because you read too much into what I said.
> > >The
> > > > >code for Quake 3 is available. The entire code will be available
>later.
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > I just read what you said, and took it at face value. How else is one
> > > > supposed to read it? You should type what you mean.
> > > >
> > > > >Does this stupid little argument excite you? Because I'm bored.
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > Translation : I need a cop out for an argument i started. I know! I'll
> > > > pull out the nonchalant "bored" argument :)
> > > >
> > > > You need to chill.
> > > >
> > > >
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