The real problem is that everyone is biased against Matrox. They have been putting out high quality 3d cards since the G400 and due to the AMD/Nvidia conspiracy no one will even review them!
Wow, I feel humbled by such an insightful post...thank-you!I'll throw out there for what it's worth that I stopped trying to contribute in a meaningful manner to a number of threads when I saw that SiliconWars started posting. This was likely not directly related to the specific content of any of the posts, per se, but rather that it became infinitely likely that any simple comment was going to get drowned out by his, demonstrable massive amount of free time, leading to him slamming any thread with multiple copies of extremely long posts, many of them quoting the same sources or images over and over. It made it hard to have a conversation, when it was likely that a whole page would be completely filled by the time that you finished typing a response to some other comment or thought.
This may well be more symptomatic of the general atmosphere of VC&G than of the particular poster, but I can't say with any 100% certainty. The atmosphere over there is definitely toxic, but there are ways to deal with that that are productive, and ways that are destructive. Usually, the destructive ones make people feel better about themselves, by tearing other people down.
In this case, rather than sighing and trying to work with people to reduce the overall level of vitriol, a forum goer went to extreme lengths over months to create alternate accounts, set verbal traps designed to be sprung months later, and admittedly spent time purposely insulting people, because he felt that some other people had gotten away with those sorts of insults before.
That is not a constructive, healthy, or peace making approach. Purposely escalating the level of verbal abuse in order to try and prove a point about how easy it is to get away with being verbally abusive is something that I don't feel is rewardable behavior. As someone that doesn't post often, due to having limited time, when I do, it's generally because I'm interested in having a real conversation about something interesting. When anything someone tries to say, and by extension, what some people that are just casual visitors to a forum might want to therefore read, gets drowned out in a protracted shouting match between two gangs of thugs.
When that happens, my purpose to interact with the forum has failed. I couldn't care less at that point which side or the other might be somewhat less accountable for their anti-social behavior. It takes two to tango, as they say.
Obviously, HeHateYou
The big difference between you and and geo and spidey is that they are fully open to listen and respect other people's opinions. They might disagree with them, but they'll have an honest an open debate. Just like you, they might not have popular opinions, but at least they're open to a discussion about why they feel the way they do.
Want to trade sigs? I like yours better.
spidey, honest debate? olololol. I'll even give you Geo despite his obvious racial motivation, but spidey?
you guys are so srs
You 2 jerks are what's wrong with the world. Lackadaisical attitude, ftl. I bet you don't complain when a restaurant mucks up your order.You guys and your forum blood feuds... srsly get a grip.
You 2 jerks are what's wrong with the world. Lackadaisical attitude, ftl. I bet you don't complain when a restaurant mucks up your order.
Hell, do you even lift?![]()
spidey, honest debate? olololol. I'll even give you Geo despite his obvious racial motivation, but spidey?
I will add in with spidey it depends on the topic.
You 2 jerks are what's wrong with the world. Lackadaisical attitude, ftl. I bet you don't complain when a restaurant mucks up your order.
Hell, do you even lift?![]()
He's the nicest guy if you're talking about meat.
Yawn...bring it, nancy. I'll have you over 10k posts in no time.I call you out as my mortal foe!
LET IT BE KNOWN TO ALL THE GODS IN HEAVEN AND ALL THE WHORES ON BOURBON STREET THAT highland145 IS BANE TO ME AND MY KIN THROUGHOUT THE AGES UNTIL THE END OF DAYS!
Practically speaking what this will entail is that I will waste even more time at work following you around and creating elaborate and overly long counter arguments to stuff you probably didn't care that much about in the first place.
Also I will create witty new racial epithets when referencing your specific racial group, whatever that may be.
For example:
"Hey highland145 why don't you and all the other three musketeers go back and like... um... eat some hamburgers."
Prepare yourself for the onslaught.
Well that puts you head and shoulders above serfs and exterous. They're camomile tea drinkers.Currently lifting coffee to mouth
Well that puts you head and shoulders above serfs and exterous. They're camomile tea drinkers.
I don't need your coffee, I'm high on life... and a couple tabs of Bronkaid... and a caffeine pill.
Ill do some hot rails
That's a lot of "get up and go" to sit around all day.
He has a point.
snapListen folks this place is identical to the 5 million other forums on the web. The mods are the same too.
Anyone who would waste their free time moderating a forum is the type of person you would not want moderating your forum.
Remember the hall monitors in school? Same people.