First off, I'm saddened to have incurred the disapproval of one of those big contributors to the enthusiast keyboard world.
In his own bloody awesome project thread even.
This will be another wall of text, please bear with me.
All my posts (including the one quoted below, those questioning the method used in the cable relief and those in your acrylic cases thread, which I fear might not have landed the way I meant for them to either) were made by a person who's lurked geekhack long enough to have keyboards, criticism, comradery and friendly jabs almost synonymous. That does colour the way I read most posts, and the way I feel my posts will be read. Falsely so, perhaps. Especially considering this is DT, not GH.
litster wrote:Frankly, I was annoyed by your comments questioning how you "don't see how it could hold a cable VERY well at all.." And when I posted the picture, you suggested the picture was taken while "it's lying on the floor instead of hanging from your hand?" Noticed I didn't have any text in my video post? I did, But I deleted it. I could have written: "For all you with either inability to understand physics, crappy shrinkwrap-fu, or just being a plain unbeliever: behold. Yank this!"
Now I wasn't trying to rain on your parade, and was grinning ear to ear while watching that vid; where I was coming from was that my experiences with heatshrink don't allow for it to hold on
very tight to any cable at all, let alone loose cablesleaving like that, and just the addition of an O-ring would in my world not easily make that different, hence my concern.
If I were not genuinely interested I would not have bothered replying (nor even reading perhaps); I was definitely critical, but there was no harm nor negativity intended.
Also, had you written that which you just offered, I would not have felt offended or belittled, I'd still felt 'awesome' regarding seeing it actually working.
litster wrote:off wrote:For all you with either rusty memory, crappy google-fu, or buckets of lazyness:
behold. The Light.
Off, you are off. Your reply to gimpster was not polite, no matter how you read it.
Seeing how at least both of you felt I replied directly to gimpster, I probably have to take a different approach to posting here in general.
My post was meant for all those that wanted to know, and were willing to fit under those categories. It was not a reply to gimpster, it was a response to the various posts between mine and dirge's; and aimed at anyone interested, including people who hadn't even posted, and anyone of the posters between my post and dirge's that were unclear on matters.
That triple jab was posted as something that in my world
could not be taken seriously, aka, a friendly jab.
Polite it was not, I'll not argue that.
Here:
litster wrote:off wrote:gimpster wrote:Interesting. Now I'm either in the early stages of Alzheimer's, suck at the Internet, or I'm just a lazy bastard because I didn't read every thread in every user's sub-forum before reading this one. No need for the long list of insults, I simply said I hadn't heard of it before...I especially like the Google-fu dig from the guy who can't figure out Moogle kits, which are now in their THIRD round...

No hard feelings bro, just take it easy on the insults, especially when referencing a thread from an obscure sub-forum that most people, especially here, probably don't read.
real cute. I declined to respond to your last message in the moogle thread because you hadn't bothered reading what you replied to, or some other malfunction; seriously, reread that and the context before, what you advised dirge, then grasp why I've said what I've said there, and why I have kept asking questions.
And obscure forum? It's this forums mother and grandfather.
Also, it's been mentioned in this thread 5 times, perhaps a search would enlighten. "the Light" is not term used often on GH out of context I presume.
Lastly, calling people lazy is not an insult in this day and age. Rusty neither. I am both.
And google sucks balls these days, so no insult in not being friends with him anymore.
Off, you are off. Your reply to gimpster was not polite, no matter how you read it.
I fixed that to what I can now agree on. I replied ticked-off by his dig at my questions regarding what
he meant, misrepresenting those to mean that I wondered what a moogle kit was. That I should have let slide and responded to his answers politely in that thread.
litster wrote:And I read the moogle kit thread. gimpster tried hard to provide links to pictures and long explanations to your questions.
And for that I am grateful. Perhaps a sense of entitlement (to
the truth/
answered questions) got me to forget
the effort he put in, despite the confusion the answers sow. That I apologise for.
litster wrote:If people trying to help you by answering your questions, you don't tell them to re-read your question if you don't understand their answers and go on questioning their implications in their answers. If there is *any* implication, it is in your reply to gimpster's,
'His implications' vs 'things implied by what he said'..
I'm not questioning motives, I'm questioning consequences and meaning; which, with every question and answer, is a good, perhaps mandatory thing. Imho. Especially in public discourse.
To make sure the communication has happened correctly, and will happen correctly to everyone who will be reading.
The way I told him to recheck his interpretation was not quite friendly indeed, so the chances of that working were slim; the motivation behind that might have been more frustratrion and anger than caring for the answer anymore.
litster wrote:implying he has no memory, suck at internet search, and that he is lazy.
That, was not an attack, it was a jab. Honestly meant in a friendly joking fashion.:
A bit like anyone that reads the post and is interested, will have to take the jab to be allowed access to the link. Sorta. Indeed the implication is there, for those that take it. I purposely did not reply to him for it was not a reply to him, it was a reply in the thread, to the 6 or so posters that
might've been confused/curious, and to the untold numbers of lurkers that could be.
Now I can see that his remark that ticked me off was probably in the same vein, that by including 'no hard feelings' did exactly the opposite; the part that said "you really don't get it" was the part that made me go "are you kidding, it's you that's really not getting it". A bit childish, I'll admit.
TLDR; truth is relative. joke starts war. don't mix conversations through topics. bring your own salt/sambal. sorry&thanks gimp.
Signing off