Mr. Smart is the Best Forum Poster [INTERNET HISTORY ITT]

[Musashi]

A sad cry for help, really.

[NowhereMan]

I don't think anyone here ever thought of Geldon as a bitter old man. Of course that's hardly the biggest mistake he got wrong in that post.

Now let's get back to watching the potential legal trainwreck that is the good doctor since Geldon only has on-line drama and Dmart's got the potential for courtroom lulz.

[sam, an eggplant]

So wait, what happened with him? He came and went in the post-diaspora/post-SND period where I drifted away for a bit myself. Wasn't there a wiki somewhere?

[NowhereMan]

He went into overdrive posting crap and turning every thread into a dramafest about him. He then declared he was leaving because we were all so mean, I think he came back and got banned. He then got unbanned and allowed back, promised that he was limiting himself to one post a day and was back to turning threads into dramafests after a week or so. I think he might have done a public vow to return and then popped back in a day or two later again as well.

[Typhon]

With maturity, alas, comes a need for new friends.  I was ejected from F13 because I became too mature to deal with the kind of games they play on those forums (typically “dump on someone for lols” – granted, I was never particularly popular with that crowd).  I alienated my old ICQ spamming bud because I became too mature to tolerate him responding with immaturity every time I failed to entertain.

With this latest forum debacle, I’ve come to realize the depth of the problem. 

You?  I mean, three different people/groups.  Three could be a trend, right?

The young (or young at heart) won’t understand why I’m so cantankerous towards their shenanigans.  They lack of maturity to understand the principles involved.  Consequently, they’re just going to chalk me up as a bitter old man because they can’t understand what I’m talking about.

Lol, my bad.  OF COURSE it's not you!

There’s nothing I can do.  Once you’ve the wisdom to understand the necessity of mature conduct, you can’t take it back.  Assuming your brain is working properly, the lessons learned through maturity are core enough as to be ever-present part of your implicit nature, and consequently you’ll always remember why not to act like the young upstart.  I can only accept that and move on.

Sigh.  If only they weren't so immature, naive and ignorant they'd be able to grasp just how awesome you are.  So awesome that it's like a curse.  Just like his Honor, the Good Right Reverend Dr Dmart, Esq., M.D., D.D.S., C.P.A.

[Sky]

Why are people geldoning the thread?

[Lantyssa]

This is what I meant.  More on the good doktor, please.

[sam, an eggplant]

Why are people geldoning the thread?

When you go to a nice restaurant and order the tasting menu, oftentimes they'll alternate heavy and light courses to avoid palate fatigue. You might start off with a nice blushing rosy veal chop with pickled ramps and lardo crustini (heavy), then the next course would be a cured bluefin tuna and radicchio composed salad with salted caramel hazelnuts (light), followed by lobster ororecchiette doused in uni black butter and white truffles (heavy), then maybe a thyme sorbet to cleanse the palate, and so on.

Think of the D.Smart drama as meat. It's chewy, savory, and satisfying. But even the good Doctor can't maintain his customary high quality luls without bio breaks. For those in-between times, we need to turn to lesser, lighter, drama. Salads, sorbets, little bites. Taste thrives on diversity.

Now I'm hungry.

[Soulflame]

I don't think I'm likely to ever eat any of the things you said.  That makes me sad, a little.

[01101010]

Or just poopsock it... it doesn't discriminate.

[HaemishM]

Fuck me.  That Geldon post about maturity? It makes me think of the ramblings of a potential fucking serial killer. Like somewhere in the ramblings (probably written in feces on human skin), he'll start murmuring about his impending apotheosis.

At least the Good Doctor never got creepy.

[Megrim]

Leave it to the metric system to have a measurement for that level of retardedness. 

What is the SI unit?

I think it might have been a reference to another Second Life psychopath.

[schild]

Geldon on himself and f13

With maturity, alas, comes a need for new friends.  I was ejected from F13 because I became too mature to deal with the kind of games they play on those forums (typically “dump on someone for lols” – granted, I was never particularly popular with that crowd).  I alienated my old ICQ spamming bud because I became too mature to tolerate him responding with immaturity every time I failed to entertain.

With this latest forum debacle, I’ve come to realize the depth of the problem.  The young (or young at heart) won’t understand why I’m so cantankerous towards their shenanigans.  They lack of maturity to understand the principles involved.  Consequently, they’re just going to chalk me up as a bitter old man because they can’t understand what I’m talking about.

There’s nothing I can do.  Once you’ve the wisdom to understand the necessity of mature conduct, you can’t take it back.  Assuming your brain is working properly, the lessons learned through maturity are core enough as to be ever-present part of your implicit nature, and consequently you’ll always remember why not to act like the young upstart.  I can only accept that and move on.

Poor guy is never going to get laid.

[Sjofn]

Getting laid is for immature losers, schild.

[Ratman_tf]

Alas.

[UnSub]

Getting laid is for immature losers, schild.

Now I know where I went wrong.

[NowhereMan]

Clearly I'm getting being an immature loser wrong. Dang.

[Lantyssa]

IN YOUR FACE, all you immature losers.

[Signe]

Some people don't consider that sexual intercourse.

[Musashi]

 

[Nebu]

So let me get this straight...

Geldon thinks that he was booted because he was far too mature for the community here?  That's like a textbook definition of denial. 

Poor kid.

[NowhereMan]

Shut up Mr. Young-at-Heart.

[Nebu]

Shut up Mr. Young-at-Heart.

That made me laugh harder than it probably should have.  Well played.

[Sjofn]

Some people don't consider that sexual intercourse.

That totally made me laugh out loud. Being immature is awesome. 

[Velorath]

Just now noticed the comments Smart added to his thread on the Alganon boards.  Apparently someone posted directly in that thread about Smedley not being at the Fan Faire that year.  Smart's response:

According to my sources, there are two issues at play here.

1. He said it, but not at that Fan Fair

2) It wasn't him who said it, but rather it was Rich Vogel.

Either way, the statement came from either Smedley, Vogel or someone at SOE.

I am still waiting to hear from an industry contact (a very good media friend of mine) before I change it.

And:

And just because Smed doesn't remember saying it, doesn't mean that he didn't. I can't remember what I said last week, let alone back in 2004.

I stand by what I've written and I see no reason to remove it at this point. Once I get the sourced material, I will update it accordingly.

So his "sources" can't actually remember who said it, when, or where, and have already mis-attributed it once but are so absolutely sure somebody said it that Smart feels he doesn't have to take down the quote (he was ever so kind enough though to add a question mark next to Smedley's name though when attributing the quote). 

[Mosesandstick]

Somebody should just say that Serek Dmart (?) said from his basement one day "I'm probably the world's worse game designer and a fucked up person".

And just because Serek doesn't remember saying it, doesn't mean that he didn't. He can't remember what he said last week, let alone back in 2004.

[Stabs]

I thought Derek handled the Something Awful thread rather well. He came across as an eccentric likeable independent game designer.

He's such a mass of contradictions. An independent developer whose business practices are more cutthroat than the worst of corporate suits. A compulsive liar admired for his straight talking. A charming man who is one of the rudest people the internet has ever seen.

He has revealed some news about his future plans there. He will be releasing Galactic Command Online in 2011 and he expects all other space MMOs except Eve to go bust when he does. It will be avoiding user friendliness of which he is scornful.

No mention of what will happen to his role as Alganon chief when he's doing his new MMO. Perhaps he takes it as a given that Alganon won't be around in 2011.

http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3278471&userid=0&perpage=40&pagenumber=7#post376754900

[tmp]

He has revealed some news about his future plans there. He will be releasing Galactic Command Online in 2011 and he expects all other space MMOs except Eve to go bust when he does. It will be avoiding user friendliness of which he is scornful.

The one-upmanship between good Doctor and EVE in avoiding the user friendliness is going to be fight of the giants.

[Xanthippe]

I'd like to see a death match between him and that Second Life nut. 

(Not here, though.)

[Soln]

He has revealed some news about his future plans there. He will be releasing Galactic Command Online in 2011 and he expects all other space MMOs except Eve to go bust when he does. It will be avoiding user friendliness of which he is scornful.

The one-upmanship between good Doctor and EVE in avoiding the user friendliness is going to be fight of the giants.

a less user friendly version of Eve?  Christ, you know that will make him some money.  There's always some OCD core out there wanting moar. 

[Kovacs]

I thought Derek handled the Something Awful thread rather well. He came across as an eccentric likeable independent game designer.

I wonder if there aren't two threads because he was perfectly in character in the thread I was reading.  Equal parts arrogant and clueless with a truly awesome ability to deny reality in pursuit of 'evidence' to suport his claims.

Fact is there is zero evidence to support the notion that making a game more accessible results in increased sales. Thats just rubbish.

[RhyssaFireheart]

Fact is there is zero evidence to support the notion that making a game more accessible results in increased sales. Thats just rubbish.

Someone apparently hasn't heard of WoW.

[Velorath]

Somebody should just say that Serek Dmart (?) said from his basement one day "I'm probably the world's worse game designer and a fucked up person".

And just because Serek doesn't remember saying it, doesn't mean that he didn't. He can't remember what he said last week, let alone back in 2004.

Or somebody could falsely attribute a quote to him about Alganon adding a fourth pillar to the equation.

I hope Marti is taking notes here.  Instead of falling on her sword she should have just told Smart that he said it but just doesn't remember and it would have been ok.

[LK]

He's doing all this so you'll pay attention.

[Stabs]

I wonder if there aren't two threads because he was perfectly in character in the thread I was reading.  Equal parts arrogant and clueless with a truly awesome ability to deny reality in pursuit of 'evidence' to suport his claims.

Same thread, everything you say is true of him.

I still found him rather witty and likeable there. Don't get me wrong I don't think he has changed or makes a good project manager; I also think he is being a devious wanker with regard to crashing Alganon to launch BC3KO from its smouldering remains.

I can see why he gets money though and I can see why Dave Allen invited him in to help.

He made a generally good impression on the goons too before they digressed into gibbering incoherence.