Posted by Brendan Gillatt on 10/07/07 13:25

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Onideus Mad Hatter wrote:
> On Sun, 07 Oct 2007 01:12:39 +0100, Brendan Gillatt
> <brendanREMOVETHIS@brendanREMOVETHISgillatt.co.uk> wrote:
>
>>> Those types are in the minority really, most people online want to
>>> kill me...well, the one's who take it all seriously anyway. I average
>>> at least one or two death threats a week.
>
>> Congratulations. I'm sure that's more than you get from people who care.
>
> Oh I'm sorry, you must be under the delusion that the Internet is
> anything like the real world. See in the real world, child, I'm a
> very respected, loved, dependable and admirable person to a great many
> people. Most girls describe me as "sweet" and "lovable" and most guys
> describe me as "cool" and "hard working". I'm the sort of guy who
> walks into a room and everyone turns to look, smile and greet me with
> excitement and interest. People know me by name and are never
> hesitant to stop and say hello as I'm out and about town.
>
> Why do they like me so much? Because I'm nice for one, not simply in
> words but also in action. I'm always doing people favors, helping
> them out when they need it and generally doing good deeds. Like today
> for example I bought these nifty new tape dispensers for all the
> departments at work. And last week I went and bought a bunch of new
> silverware, plates, bowls and cups for the break room. Whether it's
> buying things like magazines for the break room, lending someone a
> dollar for the pop machine, fixing their computer or something as
> simple as holding the door open for them...people like me...in the
> real world.
>
> I would imagine though that you probably have a lot of time telling
> the difference between what's real and what's the Internet. *nods*
>
>>>> Congratulations you're almost an internet fad - too bad that puts you
>>>> not quite as famous as starwars kid.
>
>>> Interestingly enough one of the reasons I act like an asshole is to
>>> try and curb my popularity and to avoid celebritism. It's becoming
>>> harder and harder though, primarily because of the sites I create.
>>> Like in the RPG making community, I don't think I could piss those
>>> guys off if I tried, at least not verbally. Now if I took away the
>>> sprite generator site I made of them...yeah, that'd piss 'em off.
>>> Having sites like that though means unavoidable celebritism in
>>> whatever sub-genre they cater too.
>
>> Aww, going soft on us? You don't act like an asshole - mo<COCK SLAP>
>
> Watch your mouth, you stupid kid, you don't have any fuckin cl00 as to
> the extent of what I've done to people online:
> http://groups.google.com/group/alt.flame/msg/7c40a63eea26ff44

Teasy today? I think I struck a nerve =]

> Haven't use my Malkavian character in a few years though...pray to
> whatever God you believe in that I don't ever start again. My
> Malkavian character makes my Onideus character look like a cute kitten
> by comparison.

I look forward to meeting her. Is it a date? I'll pick her up at around
7:00 tonight.

>> No, I'm sure the RPG community could manage without your sprite
>> generator.
>
> Considering it's the only one for RPG Maker XP...no, they really
> couldn't actually.

You mean that no-one in the world can grasp making sprites in photoshop?
Hell, you could even do that in MS Paint of you were so inclined.

>> Let me point out a few things to you here.
>
> Let me rip them all apart for you and point out your shortsighted,
> presumptuous idiocy.
>
>> 1) It's made in flash.
>
> Oh you sad little fool.

I'm quite happy today, thank you.

>> Flash is not good as a primary design element.
>
> Actually Flash is the perfect user front end. It's the most cross
> compatible solution that currently exists and the number of features
> it supports over other forms is impressive to say the least. It
> updates extremely easily and most everyone already has it installed
> since it's needed for all the video type sites (like YouTube) as well
> as most gaming sites and the like (like Neopets, Zwinky, etc, etc).
> If the sprite generator was being catered to blind people or the Amish
> of the Internet (Lynx users and the like), then yeah, it may not be
> such a great choice, but for the market it's aimed at it's the ideal
> solution...see, you don't comprehend that though, I mean even after I
> explain it, you still don't get it, do you? *nods*

I'm not saying flash isn't useful. Hell, I even use it on my site for
non-atomic design elements. It should never, ever be relied on, however.
I bet you never learned that from HTML for Dummies.

>> More so when the flash doesn't even load unless I turn on JunkieScript.
>
> The Sprite Generator wasn't made for your type. Now go plow yourself
> a cornfield you stupid hat wearing, Amish pig fucker.

L-O-L. You're working yourself up some bad now dear.

>> I, much the same as anyone who has the sense to leave JS off,
>
> There's like 3 other people besides you, and no, I didn't make the
> Sprite Generator for those three retards either.

It seems to me that people with more knowledge turn off javascript -
probably because they check milw0rm daily and realise that 99% of remote
attacks are in fact script based. Ask your gran if she leaves JS off and
she'll not have a clue as to what you're talking about.

Also, why do you need JS to load a flash object?

>> doesn't find a blank, black page interesting.
>
> Of course you find it interesting, you're a stupid fuckin Amish! I
> mean you don't shut off javascript and Flash unless you're TRYING to
> limit you user experience. So either you're a fuckin idiot or you
> LIKE boring, nondescript, plain text garbage.

Bang on! I do like nondescript, plain text _content_. It provides
information to me, more so than flashing animations.

>> You could make the same thing
>> using proper (X)HTML better, faster and more extensible.
>
> LOL, you stupid retard, you have no idea what you're even talking
> about (hell your stupid ass probably hasn't even seen it).

Seen what? XHTML? Dear me, someone hasn't done their research. Google
dork my name and read my page's source code. I'd like to see what you
mean when you realise that I use modern Doctypes and language for my
pages, fonts and colour schemes that are easy on the eye, and will
render on anything from a V100 terminal to a graphics workstation.

> The ONLY
> other thing that it could have possibly been made with was
> Java...that's it, Java, that's the only other web language available
> that has color transform matrices (amongst a slew of other stuff
> that's needed). You could ~possibly~ half-ass it in PHP and
> javascript, but it'd be WAY inefficient and the home brew color
> transform matrices wouldn't be nearly as good.

Errr, your "colour transform matrices" aren't all that complex. I've
seen your ActionScript and I could write that in 2 hours in PHP.

> There is absolutely *NO* way you could do it with just straight XHTML,
> don't be a fuckin retard. Well unless maybe your idea of a sprite
> generator is one where the parts have static color options and the
> user has to use print screen to save their finished sprite models.
> Not to mention no animated preview, or in the next version it's going
> to have a graphic editing program built directly into it so users can
> REALLY customize and even create their own parts directly from
> scratch.

Chop, chop then! I can't wait for the next black page instalment.

> The only thing HTML is good for is displaying simple pictures and
> text...and it's not even very good at that. Flash supports 32 bit
> alpha transparent JPEGs fer fuck sake! Not that you have any fuckin
> clue as to what those are, why you would want to use them and most
> importantly HOW you would use them. See that really is the basis of
> everything you're babbling...ignorance.

Since when did JPEGs have alpha channels? Flash supports sprites that
are generated from JPEGs and then have an alpha channel applied.

Don't even think about mentioning JPEG2000s - no one uses them and they
will die away slowly like the internet fad that you are.

>> 2) It is excruciatingly slow to load. Are you running your servers on
>> 286s? It took 17 seconds to get one single image.
>
> Of course it's slow you retard, do you have any fuckin idea as to what
> it's even doing? There's a couple methods I plan to employ in the
> next version that maybe be able to speed it up a bit, using
> ByteArray.compress() but ultimately the speed issue is affected most
> by the number of users who are using it, and, well, that's quite a
> damn lot:
> : http://www.backwater-productions.net/_images/_Scraps/Well_That_Aint_Good.png
>
> You have understand, Shortsighted, I ain't runnin some tweenage muppet
> fuck Pokemon fan site with 12 hits a month, collectively my sites get
> upwards of around a HALF MILLION unique hits every month.

You mean, like HALF A MILLION? wow! My home computer could handle that.
And yes I have stress tested way over that.

>> 3) You are using HTML 3.01.
>
> Actually, no, I'm really not you ignorant moron. It's actually XHTML
> code that's using the HTML 3.2 DTD tag. A deficient retard like
> yourself obviously has no fuckin cl00 as to WHY one would do that.

Yes, actually I have NO clue as to why you are doing that. Please, why
the hell ARE you doing that?

And besides, you're not using XHTML at all:
<meta http-equiv="imagetoolbar" content="no">
Sorry, where does that tag close? Or is the whole remainder of your page
a meta tag?

> But then your type isn't much for actually doing your own tests and
> benchmarking. Pretty much you just slurp up someone else's bullshit
> and then call it good. Free cl00, that method, it's the MOST CROSS
> COMPATIBLE WAY of achieving that "portal" look

No it isn't. That's what _you_ believe is. Simply because you have never
tried CSS.

> (vertical and
> horizontal centering)...well, most cross compatible next to Flash.
> You can achieve the same effect with Flash and you don't even need
> HTML code:
> : http://www.backwater-productions.net/_test_platform/Forum_Template/index.swf

So why don't you just go ahead and serve that to your poor visitors?

>> 4) You send the whole lot of sprites to the server only for it to just
>> save the bitmaps as a PNG. All that can be done in PHP
>
> Your ignorance is showing once again. Free cl00, you retard, you can
> alter the individual hue/sat/lightness of object parts and PHP doesn't
> have any sort of prebuilt color matrices. You could half-ass your own
> I suppose, but they wouldn't even be as remotely as good as the ones
> prebuilt into Flash (not to mention they would be slow as fuck in PHP
> and would eat up a shit load of server resources).

No actually they don't. I've done colour transforms in PHP and they can
be made fantastically fast. If you're unhappy about the speed of PHP go
to C. Actually don't bother, you'll just end up crashing your server.

>> 5) The saving animation actually does nothing at all - it's simply a
>> sprite. A very pointless, time wasting sprite.
>
> Again, Dumbfuck, yer ignorance is showing. The sprite sheet that's
> generated is for use in the program RPG Maker XP. You import the
> sprite sheets you create and then use them in your custom made game.
> They're not for like fuckin avatars or some other kind of tweenage
> blogger board hoo-ha.

Sorry.. what? Did I even mention the sprite sheets? No - I meant the
stupid bar that takes days to scroll across the screen before finally
sending the data to your PHP.

>>>> I hope we have the best of arguments in the future ;]
>
>>> Whether or not you enjoy the arguments depends largely on how
>>> seriously you take online communication. I'm quite the fan of word
>>> art and verbal conflagration, so I'm never shy from invective
>>> sparring.
>
>> Ooh, I wouldn't go so far as to call your insults invective - they're
>> not all that bad really. It seems you think a lot more of your insults
>> than the people you try to victimise do.
>
> ...right, which of course explains all the Hatter Addicts and the
> whole recent fun with that Steve retard going on about how he was
> going to kill me for calling that one d00d a pedo.
>
>> I read them more as entertainment.
>
> You're in the minority. They ARE supposed to be read as
> entertainment, that's the way they're INTENDED, but there's just too
> damn many retards trying to get themselves up on a cross these days,
> tryin to play victim 'n shit.

Is that you reaching out your heart again? I think their may really be
some love inside there. A trip to the shrink could help.

>> I now look forward to checking thunderbird for the new
>> quips you seem to invent. And tell me, how do you have a verbal fire?
>
> You're not so good with the metaphors, are you?

I believe me I am. Just not ones that don't actually have meanings.

>> It seems you have the wrong idea as to what a conflagration is. It is not a
>> verb - it is a noun.
>
> No, really? Thanks for the tip Captain Fuckin Obvious, you've saved
> the day once again!

Thank you!

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Brendan Gillatt
brendan {at} brendangillatt {dot} co {dot} uk
http://www.brendangillatt.co.uk
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