[D] Base Vulnerabilities and You - Page 2
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adso
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Barrin
United States5002 Posts
On May 27 2011 19:04 adso wrote: i vote: stay here! + Show Spoiler + you runner + Show Spoiler + You got to make the bi aaaaaaaaa tches come to YOU dog Sorry.. i mean get the circulation in customs from strat, not go reverse forum ... (getting custom forum featured by tl admin/mod(s) for a start.. join with freaky MaverK and his "bw will live forever" mod) not (i repeat "NOT") dip gold into the "cess" pool Circulation should+ Show Spoiler + be sexily moving hombres an chicas to the best forum of tl => + Show Spoiler + custom of course Man, I know this guy didn't really contribute a lot and maybe disrupted more than anything, but I can't help but really laugh at some of his posts. Was of the funniest posters IMO, even if he isn't trying to be. But maybe I just liked him because he liked me >.< | ||
adso
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Barrin
United States5002 Posts
Just so we get something straight, "trying" isn't the same thing as "doing". I believe you tried quite a lot, but in order to actually contribute you need to be able to explain yourself properly, which quite frankly isn't one of your specialties Let's put it this way. I have "tried" to make really badass, top-of-the-line maps for the past year. I think I total'd about 10 maps. BUT... as a whole, each one of them was rather terrible in terms of actual balance and strategy (give or take). I may have "tried" to make top-of-the-line maps, but I didn't actually "do" it. That said, a key thing to understand about communication (which is what forums are about), is that in communication what matters most is perception. You can be explaining the most epic, meta-game future/shifting, badass overarching theory in mapmaking/strategy, but if nobody really understands (perceives) you properly, then you're not really communicating anything except confusion. [epeen] Luckily for me, "god" has gifted me with an above-average IQ, but even better the ability to perceive and understand things that most people aren't even aware of (even if the information is a little garbled, which BTW is a sign of a higher IQ). If only I could remember all of the strange ass (and severe) typos I've been able to decipher (over past 10 years) when everyone else was like "wtf did he say"? What I'm saying is that most of the time I do understand you, but good god man, it usually takes some of my best deciphering skills, and often a bit of patience. It is often disrupting even for me to read what you're saying, I can only imagine how disrupting it must be for most other people here. [/epeen] So what I'm saying is that the only real measure of contribution is OTHER PEOPLE's ability to understand (perceive) you properly. So you might be TRYING to contribute, and you might have something good to contribute (which you do BTW), but if nobody actually understands you then you're not actually contributing a whole lot. Especially when they have to spend extra time and patience just to try (and often fail) to. So your lack of an ability to articulate yourself (in English) properly stems from a lot of things, but mostly these two things. (1) You're just not that good at English yet (particularly grammar), which nobody can or should fault you for and (2) By extension of 1, a lot of the time the words you use mean a somewhat different than what you think they mean. So, as far as 2 is concerned, even if people have the patience to decipher and understand what you're saying, we still have to (for brevity's sake) explain or define what these words actually mean, which is an even further disruption just to reply to you properly (let this post (and many others I've made TBH) serve as evidence of that (but I have much patience so it's no big deal to me)). So, what I'm saying is that trying to contribute just isn't the same as actually contributing. In your case, the biggest thing holding you back on this website is your ability to articulate yourself (in English) properly. So as much as I love ya man, unless you are able to step up your articulation several notches (which you seem to be on your way to doing), then I don't see you lasting much longer (again) <3 | ||
bonsai__
Germany7 Posts
i was thinking about any "hard facts" for quite a while, as i was trying to make my own maps more balanced and more interesting, and this really helped me alot! | ||
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