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Confuserationalizement.
18 years ago
Listen to me. You're not making any friends like this.
Just put the IQ test down, and nobody'll get hurt.
I got into an argument the other day, with someone I generally consider to be fairly intelligent and an overall nice guy. It would appear he doesn't hold the same opinion of me, though.
See, I mentioned that I wanted the game Portal, that's just been released in the "Orange Box" as part of a package with Half-Life 2. Since it's fairly obvious to anyone smarter than your average sausage link that it uses the HL2 game engine, I thought that was what he meant when he asked if I had played "the game Portal was based on". Those were his exact words.
Well, he didn't. Apparently, some college students made a game they called Narbacular Drop (don't ask me what it means, I don't know), which was where Valve got the idea for Portal. In fact, Valve even went so far as to hire the students who created it in the first place. THAT was what my friend meant.
My problem came in when I said that yes, I had played HL2. He then proceeded to call me nine kinds of an idiot, get angry at me for "being so stupid", and blocked me.
It's a GAME, dude. Relax. Take a deep breath, count to ten, jerk off, whatever it takes to chill the hell out. Instead of treating me like I'm some Special Ed kid just because I haven't heard of some obscure game, try actually EXPLAINING yourself before you have an aneurysm.
Obviously, he did eventually explain, because otherwise I still wouldn't have a clue about this precursor game. Lucky him I forgive easily.
Just put the IQ test down, and nobody'll get hurt.
I got into an argument the other day, with someone I generally consider to be fairly intelligent and an overall nice guy. It would appear he doesn't hold the same opinion of me, though.
See, I mentioned that I wanted the game Portal, that's just been released in the "Orange Box" as part of a package with Half-Life 2. Since it's fairly obvious to anyone smarter than your average sausage link that it uses the HL2 game engine, I thought that was what he meant when he asked if I had played "the game Portal was based on". Those were his exact words.
Well, he didn't. Apparently, some college students made a game they called Narbacular Drop (don't ask me what it means, I don't know), which was where Valve got the idea for Portal. In fact, Valve even went so far as to hire the students who created it in the first place. THAT was what my friend meant.
My problem came in when I said that yes, I had played HL2. He then proceeded to call me nine kinds of an idiot, get angry at me for "being so stupid", and blocked me.
It's a GAME, dude. Relax. Take a deep breath, count to ten, jerk off, whatever it takes to chill the hell out. Instead of treating me like I'm some Special Ed kid just because I haven't heard of some obscure game, try actually EXPLAINING yourself before you have an aneurysm.
Obviously, he did eventually explain, because otherwise I still wouldn't have a clue about this precursor game. Lucky him I forgive easily.
faruzah
~faruzah
Awww, but I'm sure he loves that fencepost. XD
Rayeth
~rayeth
Yeah people tend to get really serious about their games. Just log in as a newb on Warcraft 3 or Star Craft and not have a perfect strategy. I never understood this, to me it is just a game, winning and loosing don't matter, I play for fun. But you get serious folks like that. Ah well, you are a better person than I for forgiving him. I'd have just blocked him myself.
