weirdosmurf

dabigkahuna said:

alexonline said:

Grow up, DBK. 

Sure. So when are you going to provide the serious examples of WT making "digs" on their availability/shipping status page? Clearly you've had plenty of time and the page isn't all that long.

Methinks you’re more interested in drawing up reasons to be upset and offended about tangential points which aren’t anything to do with Waytools or TextBlade, they appear to be more about attacking people and finding excuses to “bicker”...

If it makes you feel better, replace the word “contribute” from my line and replace it with the word “inconceivable”. It wouldn’t make quite as much sense, but the essence would be the same... Better now?

If injustices and offensive behaviour are what you’re after then I’d ask you to join up to my petition to have Boys II Men officially censured by Congress. I think all would agree that’s the true crime going unpunished under everyone’s noses (that as much as anything else you’ve taken personal aggrievement to... if you’re going to hijack the thread with your irrelevant pet peeves then it’s therefore equally appropriate for equal time and attention to be given to mine...) If you’re not reasonably aggrieved - as you have suggested - and you have broad shoulders and a thick skin, then there’s no need to continue bringing it up. If what you want is for someone to say something in the words you wish them to say it... I think I can confidently say that isn’t going to occur and that neither proves nor disproves anything; it’s simply an inevitable reality of this big old universe we live in with all of its inevitabilities - at some point we all end up coming to terms with the nihilistic reality that “life is meaningless and we’re all going to die...” and we’ll ultimately all become something else’s stardust... unless of course the Flying Spaghetti Monster embraces us in the afterlife with his holy, noodley appendages... 

I could go on with existential theory forever and ever (technically not since mortality kinda puts a kink in it...) but that doesn’t get us back to Waytools and the TextBlade as opposed to making dbk and his perceived slights the centre of attention - dbk, you’ve stated you don’t want to be the centre of attention so here’s (again) your chance to back up that statement... it’s time to put on the big-boy pants and swim in the deep water (that’s a mixed metaphor for growing up btw...). The choices we make and actions we take reveal everything about us... (my boy band obsession is out of the bag now as an example...)

Anything to add about TextBlades or Waytools or are you happy to leave any points made unanswered? It’s perfectly fine if you have nothing to say due to being in tacit agreement; there’s nothing at all wrong with that...

dabigkahuna said:

alexonline said:

> Just pointing out that you often seem to make yourself the issue and/or insert yourself into a conversation.

That's funny, because before posting my prior message, I had included the point that the next step would be to blame me for what the critics started! But I decided to delete that part. My mistake. So I'll just remind you that it was smurf who made me an issue over a word that didn't matter, and had to fib about it at that - claiming I "kept using" it. Perhaps you have noticed he has not produced any other examples of it, let alone enough to remotely justify making his statement. Or you might notice that it was others who made an issue about my programming.

> People would then say you make false assertions

People can say many things - but you might note again that only I can point out little details such as the fact that smurf can't provide examples for what he said about me "keep using" a specific word. If he checked, and found a bunch of examples, he would have provided them. He knows he made it up so he either doesn't even check or knowns the odds of finding many examples is so unlikely, it isn't worth the time to even check.

weirdosmurf said:

You my friend, have just struck upon psychological bingo...   

More like psycho bingo since it was you who made my use of a specific word an issue - falsely at that (feel free to provide a bunch of examples if you insist you are correct. I don't think you can do it). Likewise ericpeets making my programming an issue - but, oops, he got caught with his own link showing he was was wrong about certain assembly instructions. So after you and others make me the issue, you then eventually switch to saying I was making myself the issue. That is not an ethical argument for you to make.

You are all free to make stuff up. You are free to make me the issue. But here's the thing: I get to respond. Meanwhile, tell us how many times I needed to use the word in this forum to "justify" you making it an issue out of 342 posts.

Umm... everyone gets to respond... that’s what a public Internet forum is... this isn’t a court of law, and if it were, you might find a judge shutting down some of your nonsense just as I might find mine curtailed - I cant imagine any sane judge allowing my requirement for the death penalty to apply to boy-bands to stand...

To engage and “bicker” as you have suggested? Not on your life. 

To poke a bit of fun using pop culture references or trash boy bands ad nauseum? You betcha...! I am a sucker for the little things in life...

Am I willing to chase down a red herring for the purpose of winning the internet? I am not. If that qualifies in your mind for an ethical violation of some sort, then you definitely won the internet... 

Is being the centre of the issue important to you? If so, by all means continue arguing about why you are/aren’t the centre of the issue... if however, you don’t wish to be the centre of the issue and you wish to discuss the TextBlade, Waytools and or all things therein, then again, by all means do so. If you don’t enjoy “absolute crap” then by all means, you are entirely free to elevate yourself above what you consider “crap”. You are equally free to roll around in the playground mud scrapping, punching and wrestling for meaningless points (with which you eventually get to “buy the internet...) The choice is entirely yours and your choice demonstrates everything about you (just as my choices reveal anything and everything about me - everyone’s do...)

Am I concerned that you might say “see... I knew you couldn’t do some entirely meaningless task I set you”...? I’ll just have to somehow manage to find a way go on living with myself (I do not answer to you and I don’t work for you. I am not a student of yours, nor am I a band member who you can bark instructions at to be blindly followed - I’d ask you to refrain from barking please...)

What I am in this particular context is a customer of Waytools who is frustrated and feels poorly served by the company. The company does not appear keen to engage and is extremely poor at customer relations and is extremely (overly) sensitive to criticism. The company have been extremely vague in their use of timeframes - so much so that they insist (with you as a staunch defender) they have never actually missed a deadline since they never actually gave a deadline; merely an estimate... and yet a significant number of customers feel they were deceived. The company dangles a carrot (early adopter gift of “significant value”) out without stating what it is whilst at the same time urging dissatisfied people to use the refund button; that denies people the ability to make an informed decision by keeping them uninformed about a key piece of information. And on the point of refunds, the company states (on this forum) the decision to keep an order or seek a refund sits entirely with the customer and yet that same company has unilaterally enforced refunds to customers who have vented their displeasure. Last and by no means least, the company maintains a forum (complete with a “rants” section) and yet a number of customers who have “ranted” have been shadow banned from the forum, silencing their dissent - any serious dissent. There are more, but I can’t sit here typing on an Internet forum all day (not typed on a TextBlade btw)... I have work to crack on with...

All of this is quite uncool and certainly justifies the voices here complaining. Attacking the messengers and changing the frame of reference in order to validate attacking the messengers doesn’t change the validity of those complaints.

Why do do people end up always piling on to you dbk on every forum you enter...? That’s one of those existential questions you’ll need to engage a good therapist to get to the bottom of, I highly recommend it (mine tells me One Direction is better than Take That... I mean seriously... is she insane? I mean c’mon... Robbie Williams vs Harry Styles... what is she even thinking...!?) There’s no way that you’d take your lead from a suggestion on an Internet forum (and to be fair, why would you...?) so perhaps you can explore the question we all have deep down “why doesn’t everyone in the world see the world the way I see it, like sensible people should...?” with a professional who might get you some decent, unbiased perspective. If pursuing that’s important to you (and it appears from your posts it is an important issue for you, hence the endless debate and shifting sands of framework) then I’d suggest you’ll remain unfulfilled if you keep trying to find those answers on Internet forums...

  

dabigkahuna said:

weirdosmurf said:

> I think you’re overthinking it champ... sometimes a funny is just a funny

Or just lying, which isn't funny at all.

> Humour loses much of it’s value when it is deconstructed

Especially when it turns out it was made up. Certainly you have failed to show I "keep using" the word. YOU made that an issue, not me. I merely responded to a post where someone else used it.

All you are doing now is talking gobledty-goop to cover up the fact you made a false statement about something that never should have even been an issue by you in the first place.

Now that is funny...

dabigkahuna said:

Rolanbek said:

> It's pointless. Unless of course your reasons for posting are just petty points scoring. 

Never petty to nail people who make up crap about those they disagree with. You or others are free to make stuff up or make personal attacks and I am free to point it out. Symmetry!

> Even when you are apparently being glib it's just the same rubbish over and over.

Probably has something to do with dealing with the same rubbish over and over. 

> Not waste my time on retired school teachers who have nothing to contribute. 

Once again you make it personal. But I’ll contribute anyway, as I see fit.

“Contribute”... you keep using that word... I do not think it means what you think it means...
(Apologies to the immortal Inigo Montoya...)

I think by “contribute”, you been “bloody-minded argument to the ends of the earth...”

...although I could be wrong: all evidence to the contrary...

Now or how on earth will this get:
a) A TextBlade in my hand in a reasonable timeframe
b) A reasonable and timely dialogue with the vendor of the aforementioned “Text Blade”
or
c) The death penalty instituted for boy bands...?

(I really only learned to love JT when he went solo after NSYNC: that and his Jimmy Fallon bro-mance... I’m only human after all, not a monster...!)

Do you know how we’ll know with great confidence we’re seeing the production units being used by TREG members? It’ll be when production units have actually been released to customers in General Release; until then it’s a moot point...