(buttinski enters stage right)
i am afraid i am gonna have to back up unfun here. i have read most of what he has been posting lately, and i have come to the conclusion that he has NOT really been bragging. having figured out what he has does not make him a super player or stud by any means. he has not said otherwise. he just comes across as somewhat of a braggart because he is a somewhat stereotypical computer geek-in-training. social skills are not his forte. he is going to school for computer science, not to become a diplomat. he is fairly young, and prone to the shortcomming associated with this. he found it an interesting and useful exercise to try to derive the algorithms that the ai uses because that's the way he is bent, not because he want's to pwn youz.
part of the misunderstanding is because his statements have been very terse, and lacking in grace or social sensitivity. he DOES come across as somewhat of a prick, but other ppl have willfully read in much that he didn't intend in his very short statements. they saw these as bait it seems, escalated the 'battle' and he, being young, took the bait on some ocasions. THAT is how this got so dramatic. he has tried to be mature at least half the time, but he has already been branded so it just goes on, and on.
ok, let me try to go over my read on him and you concider what his statements mean if i am correct about him.
young- not always mature enough to ignore ppl when he should(baitable). selfevident, not stated
computer science student- interested in things programming related, like algorithms(geek). such things are actually USEFUL to him, helping him learn his craft, or at least maintain enough interest to stay in class
- stated by him
somewhat limited sociability- prone to speaking simply and directly(terse)- self evident
i believe a review of his opening salvo is in order
[How? I will personally teach each member how to take tried and true algorithms and apply them to the game, thus maximizing your scores and being able to defeat Suicidal AI on a regular basis. I expect scores between 90,000-250,000 per game. My scores will, of course, be quite a bit higher than this (I will not teach all of my findings. I aim for 300-400~, and have achieved it in a metaverse game as well as several test singleplayer games). If you do not belive me, check the rankings. I achieved 3rd place with two games, one of which was a game for fun, the other a game to achieve a high score. ]
key points:
teach...algoriths. pure geek.
i will not teach all of my findings. here is the core of the problem. take a deep breath and read it again. it does NOT say i will teach you all of my tricks for pwning you and this game.it does NOT say i am a game god, come pray at my altar and i will grant you the power to rule over lesser men. it says nothing more than that he will only teach you the portions of his study that applies to this experiment. and that portion should be enough to get you in the 300-400 pt range.
not believe...check the ranking. notice the lack of !!! and how he drops it soon after. this is not some punk bragging about how amazing he is. it is a guy with out the social skill to couch this statement in such a way as make it impossible for a group of readers(accustomed to being periodically aggrivated by selfimportant blowhard braggarts) from seeing it as bragadocia, rather than as a request.
now, i am NOT suggesting he is owed an apology. he DID fail to take into account his audience. but PLEASE, cut him some slack at this point. if in the future he does something to support the 'bragging prick' hypothesis, THEN give him hell. but for now try to give him the benefit of the doubt and bank your flames.
and as to his showing up on the orca thread. another mistake on his part, and i believe he made some sort of appology there so...more support for the 'young' hypothesis. that is a dead subject now, right? right?
wether or not he SHOULD be proforming his experiment ,on the other hand, is completly appropriate to discuss
(buttinski grabs precious soapbox and runs off stage left and out backstage door, hopefully beating angry mob to the street)
