Flame on!

(Or It''s time for another rant from MSN ) Over in the DirectX/OpenGL forum, I''ve sparked a little flame war over a comparison between DX execute buffers and the new vertex/pixel shaders. The flames are pretty well partitioned into two groups: those that think I should tone things down

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Original post by remo nonetheless you''re being acting like a mentally retarded ape. anyway look at the result - you''ve kept the thread going a lot longer than it otherwise might have.

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(This is the best reply I''ve had all day. Seriously.) And those who think I''m an arrogant prepubescent sexually repressed prick:

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Original post by Draigan People like this msn12b are just morons who firmly believe they are among the smart people on earth, with brains superior to most. (...) So MSN12b, why don''t you just lock yourself back up in your mom''s bedroom and continue to masturbate about your incredible knowledge. And then when you''re done, you can take you half-assed brain and stick it up your anus where it belongs.

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Let me pick apart this post to show how utterly ignorant and baseless the argument is. (If you want to see the thread in all it''s glory, go here.) 1. Dion presumes that I like to sound smart when I post on the GDNet forums. Anyone who knows me even remotely knows I don''t post to sound smart, I post to bitch. It helps cleanse me of the anger that rises in my liver when I see posts that expound rather ignorant opinions as fact. 2. Dion seems to have missed some of my more notable rants, the best of which is in the Soapbox section, where I clearly state that newbie programmers should teach themselves with the wide range of information available on the internet and in bookstores and libraries. (Reading his post again, I''m not sure what he''s talking about, but he seems to think I don''t acknowledge the source of my knowledge... ugh, that didn''t sound right.) 3. Dion accuses me of wantonly insulting others only for the enjoyment of wallowing in others'' pain of stupidity. I guess he either forgets or ignores the fact that every insult I throw out comes with evidence to back it up. If I say virulent words, it is for a specific purpose: to deter the target from pursuing a path that will eventually lead to false knowledge and practice. I simply seek to be correct, not right. 4. As to the spread of intelligence, I sincerely doubt that''s what Kylotan tried to accomplish with his post:

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Original post by Kylotan What do you all think of this? Don''t you think it''s somewhat ironic that MS brought back a technology that was almost universally condemned the first time around, only to reintroduce it as a different part of the API? Even the article on this site refers to ''write-only code''. Do you think it was a mistake? Can anyone think of a better way to implement shaders? I''d welcome some informed opinion and discussion on all this.

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Now, it seems to me his is trying to promote discussion in a particular direction, namely, that Micro$oft fucked up royally in its implementation of the new shader architecture. Hardly open discussion. If this is indeed spreading of intelligence, may I be forever the internal blockage that prevents its ominous dissemination. I don''t think I can decipher the rest of this utter tripe, so let''s move on. I may be an ass, but more often than not I know what I''m talking about. If you want to argue with me on the facts, that''s fine. But don''t presume to know me simply because I presume to be correct. It''s an attitude that will be your downfall when dealing with me. I don''t talk unless I know exactly what I''m talking about. Don''t assume otherwise. MSN