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From: Xocyll <Xocyll@gmx.com>
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Subject: Re: Video games Europe - Seriously?
Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2025 07:34:58 -0400
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candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid>
looked up from reading the entrails of the porn spammer to utter  "The
Augury is good, the signs say:

>Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote at 16:25 this Wednesday (GMT):
>> On Wed, 9 Jul 2025 08:38:54 +0100, JAB <noway@nochance.com> wrote:
>>
>>>On 07/07/2025 16:43, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:
>>>> I saw all this in passing, but didn't really care to dig deeper into
>>>> the matter -Intenet drama bores me- but, in the name of keeping
>>>> informed, I appreciate the summary.
>>>
>>>I don't mind a bit of it now and then and this one I found interesting 
>>>as it seems to be a classic case of someone who's never got past that 
>>>teenager mindset of I can never be wrong. Most people at some stage in 
>>>their life learn that they aren't infallible and although they may not 
>>>like being in error when it happens the best thing to do is put your 
>>>hands up and just admit that's the case. Generally people will accept, 
>>>even respect, that and just move on.
>>
>> It's probably worsened by having a public persona (even if it is as
>> mediocre a one as being a "YouTube celebrity"). Or that you're in
>> frequent communication with Fans On The Internet, who are not only
>> quick to point out any conflicting views you may have had, but provide
>> links to where you said something that disagrees with your current
>> statements. The internet can be incredibly critical, and when you're
>> income depends on maintaining the good will and your trustworthiness
>> (as in, people can depend on you for certain viewpoints), backing down
>> can be extremely taxing.
>
>Apparently the guy has a huge ego too, they're terrible at programming
>despite "working at Bethesda for 20 years" (because his dad is a major
>employee), and yet literally calls himself "coding jesus" 

Codes like his hands have been nailed to a cross?

Or he makes the bugs and errors multiply like loaves and fishes?

Xocyll
-- 
I don't particularly want you to FOAD, myself. You'll be more of 
a cautionary example if you'll FO And Get Chronically, Incurably, 
Painfully, Progressively, Expensively, Debilitatingly Ill. So 
FOAGCIPPEDI. -- Mike Andrews responding to an idiot in asr