Posted by Umguy on March 22, 2000 at 12:44:06:
In Reply to: From CF to bats to personal attacks? posted by Deiussum on March 22, 2000 at 12:11:29:
> I admit, I have a life
Ah yes, the clarion call of anyone who is even the least bit intimidated by someone else saying that someone knows more about CF than they do: "I have a life."
> and I haven't followed this board very much, but Kama has followed it a bit,
So you two apparently know each other, which is why you defend each other's positions? Or do you just "know" that Kama has followed it a bit by the meager amount of posting he has done?
> Maybe you should check the order of the posts... While I agree it was off-topic, Kama was simply pointing out the fallacy that bats are blind and suddenly people who obviously know nothing about the subject start in with their contradictions, making themselves look like fools.
Actually, Rune replied saying "ok so bats aren't blind, but my point is still valid." Then Kama replied with this:
"Bats use echolocation not sonar, in addition to thier vision and hearing to stalk insects and other prey. Please hush now."
Sorry, but if a college degree in Zoology and Computer Science makes you this arrogant (Please hush now? PLEASE HUSH NOW? Give me a break.) then I'm glad I only got the Computer Science degree. Apparently Zoology has a required course named "dickheaded posting 303". (MY particular brand of dickheaded posting is only a 1 credit lab course, "Minor Flaming 150").
Now let's put some quotes from you in here, shall we?
"More like using knowledge obtained from four years of hard work to show you how ignorant you are. (nt) " (response to WALSH's joke about Ranger Rick magazine)
"Only one of many things which you wouldn't possibly understand.(nt)" (response to WALSH having more fun at your expense by taking your post literally (4 years to learn that one thing? Wow!))
Back to Kama's quotes for a moment:
"You are clueless." (Response to Jarmel).
"Obviously, you wouldn't know this since Junior High School is enough of a challenge for you." (Response to Joshu).
Back to quoting you:
"If everyone thought like Joshu, we'd all still be living in the dark ages.... (nt)" (response to Joshu).
"Where did you say you got your sources from? The golden book encyclopedia for children?" (Response to Jarmel).
Before you start asking what my point is here, I'll just tell you. You seem upset about personal attacks, yet you and Kama post with an arrogance that is unmatched. For the record, I am a pretty damned unbiased viewer who came across this thread and thought "boy, those zoology guys need to take a valium or something". I don't know Rune, Jarmel, Joshu, WALSH, or any of them in real life, or really even on CF, other than knowing a few chars they've played, and as a semi-impartial viewer, I basically thought they made you two look foolish. Sure, maybe the initial post about bats being blind was wrong, but the point you two have taken it to equates to a guy yelling throughout an entire restaurant that his buddy's thesis on quantum physics is totally unsubstantiated. Think of me as the Maitre'd coming up and saying "uh, nobody else in the restaurant (or on the forum) gives a crap, and you're looking like an idiot."
> Someone then tried to belittle our education by suggesting Kama learned it in "Ranger Rick." If you notice, my flames were all follow-ups to that and another similar flame suggesting that Zoologists are "losers" which looks to me much like another personal attack. You seem to have neglected to mention these flames in your little rant.
Yeah and people call Computer Scientists "geeks" and construction workers "lazyasses" and "neanderthals" and well don't even get me started on Lawyers and Agents. All you and Kama did is make yourselves look really foolish and overly sensitive. You have to admit it DOES take a "special breed" to go study bats for days, weeks, months, years on end. It takes a "special breed" to play CF too. If you go into the real world with an attitude like this when anyone makes a jab about Zoology, you'll end up getting your ass kicked by one of those lazyassed construction workers.
> As to your little flames about our CF abilities... those aren't even worth mentioning. Those kind of flames are something I expect on a board like this so they really don't sting very much. Even if your claims were true, I'd rather be the worst CF player ever than ignorant and incapable of learning.
Again, you make assumptions about the rest of the general CF populace. "Ignorant and incapable of learning." I'll bet if you gave me enough time, I could find something you know nothing about too, that I do. Then you'd be "ignorant" and apparently "incapable of learning" simply because you didn't know it yet (since, well, that's what you're calling others because they didn't know that bats aren't blind.)
Oh and for the record, I'm not a zoology major, but I did know that bats weren't blind. I just didn't care.