Re: Is it me or has Old Salt lost it?

Steve 'not a hipclone' Williams (ste...@bigfoot.com) wrote:
: Ere, get a load of dis Min...@the-mission.com (Mindcryme), oo wrote...
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: >>
: >>>>>It says something about Texas, and there's some fucked up, broke-assed
: >>>>>ASCII that I'm afraid is supposed to resemble the great state of
: >>>>>Texas.  That's an ass kicking right off the bat.
: >>>>
: >>>>I see you haven't met the 'fixed pitch font' yet, have you?
: >>>>
: >>>I'll tell you what I *haven't* met yet, and that's *anybody* using
: >>>ASCII in their sigs, that knows how to format it to display correctly.
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: If it was it would display properly in the fixed pitch font.

: HINT: ASCII art is supposed to be displayed properly in fixed pitch font,
: favoured over the variable pitched font, it may look OK in the var-pitch you
: type your messages in but it'll look completely different in some other vp
: font.

: >the words to suit your response.  I have never been to an ASCII
: >related newsgroup. I suppose everyone in those groups can do it, but I
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: >
: > As you can see, I explained it already.

: So have I.

: >The problem is that you don't seem to pay attention.

: You are embarassing yourself in front of the Romathians, receive a clue or
: dont bother doing ASCII-art.

--> Do I understand this correctly?  Some moron named Steve thinks
    that ASCII art - that is traditionally done with non-proportional
    fonts (fixed-width fonts); because it doesn't look right on his
    graphical, variable, proportional, font displaying screen; thinks
    that thousands of people who've been doing this stuff for years;
    are WRONG, just because the stuff doesn't look right to him?  And
    that he is the only `smart' one that can adjust font size/width,
    so that the ASCII art `looks' right on his screen?  How perfectly
    pathetic, short-sighted, ill-advised, stupid and brainless he is.

    LEARN about ASCII-art and its' history before you pass judgement,
    on something you obviously know nothing about.  This stuff was
    being done on university main-frames back in the late 60s (wish
    I'd kept that `Snoopy calendar' printout, dammit!) and sent to
    clunky dot-matrix printers; then pinned-up in labs, halls & dorms.

    Steve - you are an immature, self-centered, clueless jerk. LEARN
    something before you open your big mouth and put your keyboard
    in it.  Anyone can take an ASCII doodle and make it look good on
    a GUI-based screen.  ASCII art has a history that's older (and
    obviously MUCH smarter) than you are.  Get a grip.  Get a life.

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