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Article #282635Re: Need a cheat
From: James Christie
Date: Fri, 13 May 2005 20:05
Date: Fri, 13 May 2005 20:05
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In message <pan.2005.05.13.19.10.11.284129@invalid.lan>, Dan C <youmustbejoking@invalid.lan> writes >On Fri, 13 May 2005 13:57:11 -0500, Margolis wrote: > >> but you are making a big mistake. The original poster may have said >> "quake", but they obviously meant quake2 since the "jail" level is a level >> in q2 and not the original quake. > >I'm not making a big mistake. The original poster said "quake". If you >happen to have all the map names memorized, and know that he meant >"Quake2", that's great. I didn't know that map name (as most people >wouldn't), and I can't read minds. > >> That is why it was posted to this ng and not the quake group. > >He should have been clear. Don't defend sloppiness. > What does it matter? It was recognised by others what he meant, and they answered his question, that's what we're all here for, to share information. We are NOT here to be petty minded about how people phrase questions or what the questions themselves are about, both of which contribute nothing whatsoever. If you're just going to be negative and petty in your comments (and you seem to be alone in that stance), and if it bothers you that much, then why bother to read the posts, or more to the point reply to them? -- Regards, James Christie "Luck is my middle name," he said, indistinctly. "Mind you, my first name is Bad."
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Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!number1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!inka.de!rz.uni-karlsruhe.de!news.belwue.de!feed.news.tiscali.de!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!peer-uk.news.demon.net!kibo.news.demon.net!news.demon.co.uk!demon!NOSPAM.co.uk!james From: James Christie <james@christie.demon.co.uk> Newsgroups: alt.games.quake2 Subject: Re: Need a cheat Date: Fri, 13 May 2005 21:05:30 +0100 Lines: 36 Sender: James Christie <james@NOSPAM.co.uk> Message-ID: <VDBqTSRKiQhCFw4p@christie.demon.co.uk> References: <d5bva4$nvg$1@news.utelfla.com> <pan.2005.05.05.02.12.36.625115@invalid.lan> <Jw2he.891673$b5.39283124@news3.tin.it> <pan.2005.05.13.15.35.17.244304@invalid.lan> <cO6he.5816$i03.100@fe06.lga> <pan.2005.05.13.19.10.11.284129@invalid.lan> Reply-To: James Christie <jamie@NOSPAM.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: christie.demon.co.uk Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Trace: news.demon.co.uk 1116015163 14168 83.104.235.54 (13 May 2005 20:12:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@demon.net NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 13 May 2005 20:12:43 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Turnpike/6.02-S (<PlIeE1yjVcLg3KmSf50ypnTfRU>) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit