Quote from: mobodick on January 01, 2014, 12:31:10 PM

Quote from: FenixRD on December 30, 2013, 09:36:22 AM

So, my air of "you're an idiot" that you detected is fairly accurate. I have largely given up on most friendships, because I always wind up with a rep for being "walking wikipedia" and many of those so-called friends approach me for even the simplest of things.

LOL!
No, dude.
You had to give up on friendship because you're a douchebag.
You clearly take the time to write several posts about how you don't want to answer questions that you know the answers to.
I mean, just the first sentence of your first post in this thread would have been enough to make your point.
But no, you somehow felt the need to dedicate multiple posts to how you won't disseminate the information that was given to you by others.

I can see why you can't have friends but i fail to see how it is somehow their fault.

Most =! all. (Two of three brothers are pretty great fellows, and I'm happily married to my best friend, who is brilliant and in different ways than I, and we both appreciate each other and don't take these things for granted.) You are not the first in this thread to disregard such an important distinction. People do that, perhaps subconsciously, to bolster their argument (FenixRD is a douche and has zero friends by his own admission!) but when I see that sort of thing I cannot help but de-weight any desire to listen to your argument for validity, because you've already shown yourself willing to play politics with words and distort truth.

I also did not say it was their fault. It is clear that almost all people kinda suck, but most people probably don't consciously realize they are driving me away by not being more selective with the amount of shit they lean on me. It is not their fault necessarily that I have information they would like. I would love to give it to them all. I spent the first quarter of my life "wasting my time" in that way, only to get abused for being such a show-off, an intellectual elitist, whatever. Just as many as were grateful were resentful, and yet both kinds would still come to query Walking Google.

I put "wasting my time" in quotes becuase while it is not a bad pursuit, after a couple decades I finally realized i could do far more for people by not helping them at the individual level. That is almost always best left to the individual. Decisions and designs that affect the macro level and shape society are far more worthy, even if you care about individuals, which I do.

I could also give up on even writing these sorts of things (or just answer them, as it is always proposed, ignoring the issue). And you probably underestimate my keyrate. But really, I'm still holding on to a shred of belief that the concept of that whole "teach a man to fish" bit can spread, thus benefiting society and reversing our trend toward Idiocracy. Because, as you misrepresent despite it being so goddamned clear throughout the thread, nobody "gave me the information" at all. I reconstructed it myself using the exact same sources available to OP and every other English-speaking person on this planet with internet access. Most of my knowledge comes from the fact that while you were playing Angry Birds for the 17 trillionth time, I was reading.

Also, I had to unignore you to reply. I dont remember why I had ignored you. I dont think we've interacted before, so I can only assume it was due to a series of especially useless posts polluting a thread I was watching at some point. (I rarely feel the need to actually hit ignore.) So, I look forward to seeing how this goes.