If there was ever a case for forced sterilization, I think Prokofy would be the top candidate in most peoples lists. And yes Prok, I know that you are actually a woman in RL.

Crimey, no one needs to see this love/hate thing play out in the comments thread.

You just gave a perfect example of your overexplanations, filled with absolute and utter bullshit to once again to give the illusion that you know what you are talking about. It is absolutely hysterical. I don’t intentionally push your buttons, but I would be lying if I said I did not get some enjoyment out of your constant overreactions to things. It is such a well worn pattern that I could set my watch by you having one of your blustering meltdowns that result in another screed and lots of hard drive space dying.

It amazes me how much time you spend trying to degrade other people. I have never tried to attack your intelligence (your sanity, yes, your intelligence, no). Software development and programming is something that does require talent, intelligence, and skill, just as all kinds of creative skills do (including writing). I don’t think I am superior because of my skills in this. I don’t think you are dumb for lacking them. You, on the other hand, think you are so superior to a lot of people, when you are not in the slightest. You may be intelligent, but you’re really fucking ignorant, which is the sad part.

I don’t need to stop anything, Prokofy. Nothing has certainly stopped you from being a raving bitch, so I simply push back against your nauseating barrage of bullshit, as do many others. Did you ever notice that common denominator, Prokofy? You are always at the center of it, not me.

By the way, I am not Caligari’s technical support – I don’t know what some random numbered error message means. Based upon the limited amount of what you said, I suggested something, and you freaked out like a mad cow. That is your problem, no one else’s.

No, there is never any good will and helpfullness when your admitted goal is “I like being able to push the button” — that is an obvious show of hand right there, Cristiano, you should be embarrased. Your malicious intentions are always revealed. When you want to play gotcha and show somebody up, you don’t make good arguments, and your facile lack of good will is obvious. So you can’t be serious about a RAR file; you’re merely trying to hector and play gotcha.

And no, Cristiano, it’s not that I’m somehow hysterical about not knowing something; that’s not it at all. If I didn’t understand what happened when I pressed a file in WinZip and it unzipped but there were no other options, I could say, oh, ok, I see. Obviously it would involve matter of pride or saving of face to say, “Oh, I got it, not WinZip but WinRAR, whoops.” Who wouldn’t be able to say that? Someone who could NOT say that might indeed be a pathological liar incapable of self-examination — and you’d be justified in thinking them a loon. But again, sorry to disappoint — I’m not that person.

Seriously, Cristiano, I assure you that not only do I know what a RAR file is, I’ve opened tons of them in my lifetime.

And, with this TrueSpace thing, as unfamiliar as it is, it is clearly marked as a WinRAR file. You see that clearly as an icon. And I’ve been playing games for something like 15 years now. WinRAR files have been part of a number of them.

Example:

http://www.personal-computer-tutor.com/sims2/install.htm
“Downloading and Installing Stuff in The Sims2
for more free tutorials on computer stuff other than the Sims2. Become a … The program I use for rar files is WinRAR which you can download here. …
http://www.personal-computer-tutor.com/sims2/install.htm – 42k”

This is something my kids had dl’d to deal with Sims2 which they play a lot more than me, and a site they used — it happened to be reinstalled on this computer — I hadn’t bothered when I fixed this new one up after a crash. It’s been a while since I’ve bothered monkeying with my Sims innards, but this is exactly where RAR becomes relevant — go look at the tree of folders yourself.

And even for work, I get WinRAR files from some of the countries/jobs I deal with.

Unzipping in WinZip (or another thing I like better called Unzip Wizard) is one thing; opening/unzipping in WinRAR is another thing. If you unzip in RAR — you can see your mistake. It’s another type of compressed file — and you’ll need to unzip it with the other utility and open it up with the right program. But…the very installation was messed up anyway. I *did* get it open. And I followed through all the installations. But then I stll got errors (runtime and library errors).

You are so concerned to try to show me up as some technical dummy and fucktard supposedly unable to admit I’m a dummy that you’re just not realing: this is not rocket science.

Anybody who got used to making things for the Sims offline games and modding even TSO and putting things into the game of Sims2 is someone who will simply be very familiar with all this stuff because they needed to learn it to play these games, not because they are tekkie smarties.

That’s just what you can’t hear — that these games and worlds forced many people like me who would never have dared to change a registry key or download and install something into their computer to become quite facile in these things.

So I totally resent constantly having to listen to know-it-alls. This stuff is repeat: not rocket science. It’s rote information. All you’ve done is learned more rote information. This makes you neither smart, knowledgeable, wise, or even useful – you’ve merely mastered rote material like a monkey.

>I have been using Caligari Truespace on and off for the past 10 years, I have worked with many online environments including Caligari’s (I have trying out TruePlace (now renamed TruePlay since an early beta of it), and I am a software developer, so yes, I do have technical expertise in this area that you lack.

If you were in good faith, and IF you had knowledge, there’d be one proper thing to do here: to explain how to get rid of runtime error no. 14000 or whatever. That’s it.

No, I’m not blustering. I am patiently laying out the facts to you to try to get you to see that your initial stance of bad faith, and desire to “push buttons” reveals your true agenda — to be a dick. Stop it, Cristiano.