Saturday, March 20, 2010

Why...

... do they keep finding me?

Seriously. What do I do to attract the fucking morons of the universe?

There's something(s) in the goddamned groundwater I tell you.

Guy posts to the RR master comments. Two posts, three or so hundred words, not one piece of punctuation. Not. One. Worse yet, is the 75% misspelling rate.

Now, my internal idiot to American English translator is pretty good, but fuck me... I can barely puzzle out what in the holy fuck he's talking about.

I give it ten or so minutes thought, re-read a couple parts, and clean my glasses (just in case...).

As far as I can muddle out, one of the problems seems to be that he runs two hundred odd mods without knowing what any of them do, and isn't smart enough to RTFM. I tell you, Kiddies, some days I wonder why I bothered spending the dozen hours I did writing that damned readme. No one uses it.

Problem number two is that his copy of Vault 1 "resets". Somehow, it loses all NPCs, placed bobbleheads, container contents, and reverts to initial state, until he leaves and re-enters a random number of times, at which point it will load correctly.

Granted, FO3 has violated its own laws of physics on more than one occasion, but I really don't see any way for this to happen. There's only the one Vault 1 cell, so even if something was messing with the teleport doors... there's not another V1 to enter by mistake. Moreover, Vault 1 doesn't reset so far as I've ever seen, and even if that WAS the issue, it wouldn't be able to randomly reset itself back to the previous state.

I've dug around the forums a bit, and can't find even an oblique reference to anything similar.

I said as much, and receive another post of a couple hundred words (again with no fucking punctuation or spell-check), detailing another dozen mods that have nothing to do with anything, and that he's going to "undo" the mod to see if it helps.

What does that mean? I have no idea. You know, I speak the American derivation of the English language fairly well; I'm pretty highly rated on my vocabulary and general grasp of the language. I speak more than a bit of Spanish. Some conversational German. A bit of Japanese. I even know some Welsh. For the life of me, though, I can not figure out what these people are talking about three quarters of the time.

It's just so... random. No spelling or grammar structure; no consistency... it's apparently just whatever pops into the sieve-like mind at any given moment.

These people can drive cars. Buy guns.

They can vote.

This scares the hell out of me.

And, of course, I can't simply call the person a genetic defective. Nexus rules prohibit being unkind to the chronically stupid.

While I can say without conceit that banning me from the Nexus would hurt the community far more than it would me (I help way more people than I download others' mods, after all), this is still my prevailing hobby at the moment, and finding another would be inconvenient.

Fortunately, this here is Blogger territory, where I can say whatever I fucking well please about the stupid shits. HA!

...Yeah, I have issues. I know.

2 comments:

  1. Oh my god, I am so sorry for you. I know how people write with that at times and I am very sorry as that is a hell on so many levels.

    As for idiots they really need to read the "Read me" file and understand it was made for a reason. Not that long and very easy to read.

    Oh and maybe not yell at you when the mod is not working for some reason and blame you and your mods when they have no idea what the problem is other then the other 20000 mods they run.

    A part of me says you should post some of theses pm's you get after taking names out.

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  2. I wouldn't mind SO MUCH... after all, everyone has to start at some point, and simple inexperience is nothing to be ashamed of...

    But I swear some of these people take pride in ignorance and refuse to learn, even when you do answer a question.

    It's like the world (and the internet especially) is nothing more than a personal question-answering service.

    Besides which, it irks me more than a bit because either A) these people are not adults, and thus have no business in the modding community for an M/17+ rated game, or B) they ARE adults, but are functionally illiterate... in which case I have to wonder how they manage to survive in the world.

    I can at least cut people slack for whom English is not a first language, but I'm usually willing to bet money that the worst of the bunch have spoken the language their entire lives.

    ...but yeah, I could do an amazing "best of" series if I saved my PMs. Fortunately for the individuals in question, I don't save them; and generally just want the conversation to end as soon as possible so my brain will stop trying to ooze out my ears to escape.

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