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It adds a somewhat funny touch that the guy actually responded, and also what he had to say. Sounded like a 15-year old. Still very annoying and nice to read t

by akirk 17y ago

It adds a somewhat funny touch that the guy actually responded, and also what he had to say. Sounded like a 15-year old. Still very annoying and nice to read that Nigel managed to get the site down. Also nice to see that the software is still being developed, more than 5 years later :)

kunley 17y ago
Unfortunately, it did sound like typical grown person there -- by mid-asian standards.
- palish 17y ago
  Not sure why he's being downvoted. As an avid gamer, I can verify that most foreigners who speak English don't care enough to try to write properly. I'm not bashing, I'm just saying, from my observed experience, that is the case. For example, I once bought virtual money for an online game called Ragnarok Online. The sellers I interacted with appeared to be from China, and they all spoke pretty much like the guy in the article. These were probably adults, since they had accounts to receive (real-life) money transferred to them. And this is just one example over many years of gaming. So based on experience, I wouldn't be surprised at all to find that he was in fact at least 20-30 years old. Does any of this matter? Nope. I'm just trying to work up the motivation to implement a particularly annoying feature, so I'm chilling here talking about randomness. :)
  - akkartik 17y ago
    I know what you mean, but I put it down to people new to the internet. They often are bad at typing so take shortcuts like 'u', and they've never written before as much as one does online. Within a year or two there's definite improvement in my experience; practice with touch typing and with composing text. Country has nothing to do with it IMO, except that the US rarely sees people in their 20s discovering the internet for the first time.
  - viraptor 17y ago
    Is it really because of a different country? Just have a look at trending twitter posts sometime. Some examples from grownups (judging from the pictures) visible right now: "dam why she my biggest fan", "doin' ur 4ends mom", "yur teaachers tryna fcck yu", "u wanna slap da smell outta ppl...? I swear i will slap da #FUNK outta every wet white person in dis f'n class..." Those were all examples from people who say they're from US. I wasn't even looking for bad examples - they were on one screen. I know there's a difference between weird spelling used by natives and bad grammar from others, but a bad example in one place enables more bad behaviour in another. In some online games I couldn't tell a native English speaker from other people, because they don't care to write properly.
  - kunley 17y ago
    Well I was not referring to a lack of proper English grammar. I was thinking about a specific mindset which could be summarized as: "Everybody's cheating around and I will try my little not-so-smart cheats on you too. That's how everybody behaves so don't tell me it's a problem". And this is (sadly) mid-Asian standard. Especially when you get there physically.
    - palish 17y ago
      Wow, really? I had no idea that attitude carried over to real life. I mean, I could make the observation that most Asians seemed to behave that way online in a game, but I didn't realize that they mostly behaved like that in real life too. Of course this is all just hearsay...

by akirk 17y ago

kunley 17y ago

Unfortunately, it did sound like typical grown person there -- by mid-asian standards.

palish 17y ago
Not sure why he's being downvoted. As an avid gamer, I can verify that most foreigners who speak English don't care enough to try to write properly. I'm not bashing, I'm just saying, from my observed experience, that is the case. For example, I once bought virtual money for an online game called Ragnarok Online. The sellers I interacted with appeared to be from China, and they all spoke pretty much like the guy in the article. These were probably adults, since they had accounts to receive (real-life) money transferred to them. And this is just one example over many years of gaming. So based on experience, I wouldn't be surprised at all to find that he was in fact at least 20-30 years old. Does any of this matter? Nope. I'm just trying to work up the motivation to implement a particularly annoying feature, so I'm chilling here talking about randomness. :)
- akkartik 17y ago
  I know what you mean, but I put it down to people new to the internet. They often are bad at typing so take shortcuts like 'u', and they've never written before as much as one does online. Within a year or two there's definite improvement in my experience; practice with touch typing and with composing text. Country has nothing to do with it IMO, except that the US rarely sees people in their 20s discovering the internet for the first time.
- viraptor 17y ago
  Is it really because of a different country? Just have a look at trending twitter posts sometime. Some examples from grownups (judging from the pictures) visible right now: "dam why she my biggest fan", "doin' ur 4ends mom", "yur teaachers tryna fcck yu", "u wanna slap da smell outta ppl...? I swear i will slap da #FUNK outta every wet white person in dis f'n class..." Those were all examples from people who say they're from US. I wasn't even looking for bad examples - they were on one screen. I know there's a difference between weird spelling used by natives and bad grammar from others, but a bad example in one place enables more bad behaviour in another. In some online games I couldn't tell a native English speaker from other people, because they don't care to write properly.
- kunley 17y ago
  Well I was not referring to a lack of proper English grammar. I was thinking about a specific mindset which could be summarized as: "Everybody's cheating around and I will try my little not-so-smart cheats on you too. That's how everybody behaves so don't tell me it's a problem". And this is (sadly) mid-Asian standard. Especially when you get there physically.
  - palish 17y ago
    Wow, really? I had no idea that attitude carried over to real life. I mean, I could make the observation that most Asians seemed to behave that way online in a game, but I didn't realize that they mostly behaved like that in real life too. Of course this is all just hearsay...