At least we can at this stage not accuse him of posting on usenet in html.
Please, turn off your html. It is completely unneccesary.
Z.
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At least we can at this stage not accuse him of posting on usenet in html.
Please, turn off your html. It is completely unneccesary.
Z.
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Please remove my_pants when replying by email.
Eldred,
You are absolutely correct and I fully understand that not
everyone can afford a killer rig. I do not belittle anyone for having a less
than top line machine. Not at all! I readily apologize if my remarks were taken
in that context by anyone. That is in no way the spirit in which they were
intended.
My point was that this is a supposedly professional reviewer making his
remarks in a public forum who is deliberatly insulting and falsely stereotyping
a certain group of people and attempting to do so by pointing out his own
supposed superiority in system power. It is a false superiority which is hardly
applicable in this case. It was his use of his own system to judge others by
that was unacceptable and laughable, not what kind of system yhose other people
do or do not have.
Again, my remarks were directed only at him for his use of such tactics,
not at others for the power of their systems.
Rick W.
PS. At least I am very sure we both agree this guy is definitely not cool. :]
> >The most amusing and yet somehow pathetic part of the whole thing was the
> >'writers' comments on the financial status of NASCAR fans. "97% of
> >NASCAR's audience is way too poor to own a computer with enough horsepower
> >to run this game" and then he brags about his own computer, "On my Celeron
> >566" ! I just about choked with laughter. I haven't had anything that slow
> >in almost 3 years. Ok, so maybe I am ahead of the national curve in
> >computer systems. Still, a so called 'reviewer' is running a cheap Celeron
> >566 and putting other peoples systems down? Clearly, the joke's on him and
> >he dosen't even know it.
> Dude, his system is faster than my K6-3/400mhz. It's all relative... Not
> everyone CAN afford the top of the line system...
> But, he IS insulting to Nascar and Nascar fans... :(
> Eldred
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> Homepage - http://www.umich.edu/~epickett
> F1 hcp. +28.67...F2 +151.26...
> Never argue with an idiot. He brings you down to his level, then beats you
> with experience...
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Don we were smoking stem and*** behind the 7-11 listening to the
M&M's sing... remember?
>Don Chapman
Rick W.
> > Dave,
> > While I certainly agree with you in principle, I think
> > the
> >'reviewers' true character was shown in his original writings, not his
> >apology.
> At least we can at this stage not accuse him of posting on usenet in html.
> Please, turn off your html. It is completely unneccesary.
> Z.
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> Please remove my_pants when replying by email.
> Zonky,
> Please consider this a friendly and inquisitive post. I was
> not annoyed or offened by your rebuke.
> However, I am curious as to what the problem is. I use html in all my
> regular mail as do almost all my friends and business associates. I send and
> receive dozens of times a day and have never had anyone comment on it before.
> It is just natural in the circles I work in. Therefore, I am curious as to the
> nature of your problem with it. Is there some reason I should not be using it
> on the Usenet? I post fairly often in various forums and have not had anyone
> mention it before. If there is a reason I shouldn't, please let me know what
> it is.
I'm not Zonky, but maybe I can help you out. Down below I've cut &
pasted your post the way it looks to folks who don't use HTML enabled
news readers. I think the reasons for his remarks will be glaringly
obvious. :-) Let's see if you'd like to read 100+ posts a day that
read like this....
--------------E1F2D4807F15CF959B746036
Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
<!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en"> --------------E1F2D4807F15CF959B746036-- -- Fester
<html>
<b> Dave,</b>
<br><b> &n
While I certainly agree with you in principle, I think the 'reviewers'
true character was shown in his original writings, not his apology.
Those
opinions and statements were written of his own free will and under no
duress. He said what was in his mind and in doing so revealed it as it
is. On the otherhand, his apology came only after Game-Guru.net pulled
the review and no doubt pressured him to make amends to prevent further
tarnishing of their name, not his. While his apology may well be
sincere,
the circumstances it was issued under must cast some doubt on that.</b>
<br><b> However, I applaud Game-Guru.net for their
swift
and very appropriate action in this matter.</b><b></b>
<p><b>Rick West</b>
<blockquote TYPE=CITE>>This is from a Game-Guru.net page called Nascar
Racing 4 review
<br>>appology:
<p>At least he had the character to step up to the plate and issue an
apology.
<br>A lot of people wouldn't even do that. Like those that fired
off ***,
<br>offensive emails to him about it. Want to send off an email
voicing
your
<br>displeasure about his review, fine, knock yourself out. Do it
with some class
<br>and a little forethought and he mind just decide that us NA$CAR
fan(atic)s
<br>aren't such bad people after all.
<p>Dave Casey
<br>Casey#9 (NASCAR Racing 4)
<br>www.teamcasey.net
<br>www.lvkc.com
<br>www.buycoolcrap.com</blockquote>
</html>
It is generally considered bad netiquette to use HTML in newsgroups, Not
all newsreaders can read it and it is also alot bigger than text so if you
are downloading alot it will take a LONG time. I personally dont have a
problem with it, but I can see the point
Ash
| Zonky,
| Please consider this a friendly and inquisitive post. I
was
| not annoyed or offened by your rebuke.
| However, I am curious as to what the problem is. I use html in all my
| regular mail as do almost all my friends and business associates. I send
and
| receive dozens of times a day and have never had anyone comment on it
before.
| It is just natural in the circles I work in. Therefore, I am curious as to
the
| nature of your problem with it. Is there some reason I should not be using
it
| on the Usenet? I post fairly often in various forums and have not had
anyone
| mention it before. If there is a reason I shouldn't, please let me know
what
| it is.
| Thanks,
|
| Rick W.
|
|
| >
| > > Dave,
| > > While I certainly agree with you in principle, I think
| > > the
| > >'reviewers' true character was shown in his original writings, not his
| > >apology.
| >
| > At least we can at this stage not accuse him of posting on usenet in
html.
| >
| > Please, turn off your html. It is completely unneccesary.
| >
| > Z.
| >
| > --
| > Please remove my_pants when replying by email.
|
Rick W.
Rick W.
Judge Jan. ;-))
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Still, just based on the comments here, it sounds like the guy's not
only a Kindergarten drop-out, but also a slack-jawed mouth-breather.
Based on what I've heard here, we'd all be better off if we DIDN'T
grace the game-guru site with our presence.
-- JB
On Wed, 14 Mar 2001 04:38:04 GMT, "Roy Berube"
>Roy Berube
>> Check this review of Nascar 4 out guys. Let the site admins know what
>> you think too.
>> http://www.game-guru.net/reviews/nascar4/index.htm
>> Geoff
>>Sheesh, why is that guy reviewing anything. Looks more like something
>>you'd see in a newsgroup post, not a review. I hope he doesn't actually
>>get paid for that.
>Is it not a perfectly valid view for those looking for an arcade style
>racer?
'This game is for the person who wants to simulate nascar racing, it
is NOT for those of us who enjoy a quick belt arond a fictional track
in a car that doesn't bear much resemblance to it's real life
counterpart - if there is a real life counterpart".
Instead he came out and bashed NASCAR, its fans, its drivers, the game
and the company which produced the game, simply because he doesn't
like NASCAR.
I have to say, if they give NASCAR haters NASCAR games to review - I
would not trust that site for purchasing advice, ever. He likes arcade
racers, "real driving games" he calls them... okayyyyy... so he should
be given arcade games to review. Get a simmer to review the sims,
someone who understands why driving with the keyboard is not something
you'd expect. It's all about objectivity.
And BTW, the guys reviewing style indicates he's ***at that anyway.
Criticism is more than just saying "This sux, d00d, go play Quake".
DG
> I never used a reader that didn't read HTML mail so I'm just curious..
> What is the benefit of not using one? Or, Why would someone not use one? I
> can see those using the old phone modems having a problem with file size
> downloads, so out side of that why?
That's my story & I'm sticking to it. ;-p
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Fester
Eldred
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Remove SPAM-OFF to reply.
Take a look at the example difference between html and plain text
http://www.houghi.org/
The same message takes up about 25 times the space in html. If everyone
suddenly switched to html, usenet diskspace requriements is going to go
through the roof. Article hold times are going to plummet, or the costs to
users will spiral.
Z.
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