Wait, so mentioning bugs in a campaign release and providing fixes for the issues found, and offering to help with the fixing counts as "destroying four years of hard work"?
Interesting that there were others who reported the campaign was playable with the intended build. You went straight for the _d build.
Yes. Because I sort of expect any release to be reasonably tested and warning- and error-free. Because, as you may recall, I am a developer and one of the troubleshooters here. Less errors in released campaigns means less work trying to figure out why users have problems.
I do seem to recall that I even helped to fix errors in YOUR campaign.
Having some small PCX files isn't an error. It's an error in your book, but the campaign was perfectly playable, with and without your "fixes." Those aren't huge skyboxes that I included in BMP format, but a couple mostly 64x64/128x128 old maps. It's so typical of you that you opened the VP files just to find these "errors." You were interested to further your "perfect releases" agenda, not in playing the campaign.
Arguably true. Because, arrogant human being that I am, I sort of expect people to follow the same quality standards that I have. And, again, I am a developer. I will go into the nuts and bolts of technical stuff at the drop of a hat.
Second, if criticizing someone else's fiction on the basis of writing style and content is "ruining" it
The problem is the way you put your criticism. It's not the content of what you said, but its style.
Right. Unlike mika, whom you have chosen to defend from the evil, power-abusing asshole that I seem to be in your eyes, I prefer clarity of expression and directness over being nice for the sake of not hurting feelings. It's an approach that, while certainly not the most polite, is also remarkably devoid of misunderstandings. Which is something that I believe to be a good thing.
then I will gladly obliterate any writing you happen to throw my way.
As if it were any different with anyone else's fiction, or any contribution to the community. You continue to show zero tolerance to anything and anyone that doesn't meet your narrow, egocentric standards. If the thread needs to burn because of The E's dislike and his all-pertaining hatred for other human beings, then so be it.
Completely true. I have narrow definitions of what is good and what is not, and I will continue to apply them.
HOWEVER.
You make it sound as if I would pop up in every release thread, always being negative, always needlessly bad-mouthing stuff. I submit to you that that is not the ****ing case. You make it sound as if I am using my position as Global Moderator, or my badge collection, as hammers to bludgeon any word of dissent. While I certainly am biased towards seeing myself in a good light, I do not believe that to be the case.
Same goes for Infamus' "contributions" to BP canon, where I provided a comprehensive critique after being called out on being overly dismissive (I believe that's what you referring to).
I have no idea what you're referring to.
You don't? I would have thought that, in your self-appointed job of raging on behalf of those wronged by me, you surely would have noticed
this.
