🚀 go-pugleaf

On Thu, 12 Feb 2004 17:02:29 GMT, "FLY135" <fly_135(@ hot not
not)notmail.com> wrote:

>
>"Lemming" <thiswillbounce@bumblbee.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
>news:lpbn20dht13armea523onm4as72elo4412@4ax.com...
>> On Thu, 12 Feb 2004 15:54:59 GMT, "FLY135" <fly_135(@ hot not
>> not)notmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> >
>> >"FLY135" <fly_135@(hot not not)notmail.com> wrote in message
>> >news:4dhWb.20237$jH6.14061@newsread1.news.atl.earthlink.net...
>> >>
>> >> "Shingen" <Shingen@aolsukd.sbcglobal.net> wrote in message
>> >> news:ps3j209m1rqp5bee4f2277c3ssn516uold@4ax.com...
>> >> > BCM came with both a 76 page manual and a key-card. Did you get yours
>> >> > second-hand?
>> >>
>> >> No, $7 new in box at EB.  Maybe I should go back and take a second
>look.
>> >>
>> >> BTW, I played again tonight for about an hour.  Average time between
>> >CTD...
>> >> 15 minutes.  And most of the time I was just sitting looking at the
>manual
>> >> when it dumped.
>> >
>> >Followup.  I played for 2 hours last night without a single CTD.
>Apparently
>> >the CTD's I related in the previous post were from misc button pressing
>due
>> >to my state of confusion about what I was supposed to be doing.
>>
>> That's a statement worthy of the SC himself.  "The game crashed
>> because the <insert suitable adjective here> user pressed the wrong
>> button."  Beautiful.
>
>That was a completely objective statement relating the only the explanation
>I had as to why it was crashing every 15 minutes in one session and not any
>in the other.  I suppose if I has interjected a few "f*ck'g, stoopid,
>crappy" clauses thoughout my statement it would have been more palatable to
>some readers.

Maybe, but that wasn't the point I was making.  What I meant was that
if a program crashes because the user pressed the wrong button, it's
not the user's fault; it's a crappy program.  The days when users had
to type everything perfectly or the program blew up in their face are
thankfully long gone.

Lemming
-- 
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