Quote from: K-Dog on Feb 12, 2025, 08:34 PMI'll let RE put you in the cooler.  I'll just say fuck you.  RE lived in Brazil and traveled in Europe.  If he figures he has seen enough he has poetic licence for :

QuoteI am aware of his early years as a young Prince of the Illuminati. And you must not have read what I wrote, because the point wasn't about traveling....it was all about the experience gained in life as opposed to sticking with the theory,and confusing the value of the latter with the former.

Come on K-Dog. I didn't write it to be subtle. Just well documented, the difference between the two.

Quote from: K-DogWhere do you get the idea that either of us has anything to prove to you.  You need not answer.  I'm being rhetorical.

Of course I can answer. You missed the entire point apparently. This isn't about PROVING anything, it is about the difference between people talking about a thing, and how that is different from the people who actually DO the thing.

Like you, you are highly capable of getting software reconfigured and running and doing things, some of which it was probably never designed for. You have experience in the doing of a thing. And undoubtedly other things. So does RE. He knows how to drive a big truck. I can theorize about that all I'd like, but I don't make the mistake of thinking off of his stories of the road I can jump into the cab and start truckin! RE does not appear to share this idea. He talked to some biker dudes he met in the Big City, and he believes it imbued him with not only the knowledge they had, but knowledge equivalent with the experience.

I just happen to disagree, and happen to have some nice Laguna Seca pictures to demonstrate that wearing leather and talking about riding a motorcycle just might not be the same thing as going hammer down on a international caliber road course.

Quote from: K-DogIs there anything to you besides being a total asshole?

Of course. But I can't talk about professional qualifications and accolades because it makes people feel bad, or the kids, or apparently demonstrate I know how to ride a motorcycle let alone provide the pictures...so what is left? You interpret it as asshole, but that just means you disagree with me mostly. I'm not like you and RE in the least, and we sure haven't ended up at the same place, this late in our lives.

Quote from: K-DogThat question is not rhetorical.  If you can't answer because RE has you in the cooler, that is fine.

But of course. Just as RE enunciated, he can happily exist in an echo chamber of his own making. Having been around his forums and web adventures for coming up on 2 decades now, it isn't a surprise that his internet journey is the story of even decreasing audiences and user counts until we arrive...here. Just a couple geriatrics banning other geriatrics who don't tend to fit their model.

Oh yeah, and Cool Hand Luke and Paul Newman is certainly an accolade for someone like me...as my own philosophy is completely opposite of REs, and Paul Newman is just COOL.