Re: Legacies

On 2007-10-31, dogscoff <dogscoff@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Oct 30, 8:29 pm, Justin Hiltscher <jus...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Either you were just as confused as the rest of us, or you grokked some
meaning from that post that others didn't. If that's the case, would you
please share with the rest of us what it meant?

The meaning I got from Angelwyrm's posting of the nethack intro text
is quite clear: Somebody asked exactly what was meant when he*
described his text as a "legacy."

I'm sorry, what? You are clearly reading a different thread than all
the rest of us. Can you please quote with message-ID AND context
exactly where someone asked "what do you mean by 'legacy'?"

Let me refresh your memory: This is what *I* asked, and I asked it
three times:

(opening plot text copy-and-paste snipped)

Did you have a point to make, or were you just quoting random text?
If there was a point (debatable), please state it clearly.

The passive-aggressive approach doesn't work on USENET.

That's it. It's about as clear a question as you can get. It's rude,
but then again, I consider people who respond to direct questions with
deliberately obscure answers to be rude as well: pretentious poseurs,
much on the level of the cheap fortune-teller on the corner who speaks
only in half-sentences so that nobody realises they're selling a bunch of
superstitious claptrap obtained via cold-reading.

It bears no resemblance whatsoever to "what do you mean?" -- it asks an
entirely different question, which is "Why are you posting this *** in
the first place?" He has yet to answer it, despite it being asked three
times. This whole conversation would not be taking place if he would
have just answered the question the first time it was asked.

Rather than explain it he provided an example of another
'legacy': the Mardok story.

Yes. This is exactly the sort of evasive bollocks that is a detriment
to useful conversation everywhere, and MOST ESPECIALLY on USENET. When
people ask you a direct question, respond with a direct answer; it saves
us all a lot of time and doesn't make us all think you're just another
over-pretentious Livejournal refugee.

--
Derek

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