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

Ere, get a load of dis ttu...@ecn.ab.ca (), oo wrote...

>Steve 'not a hipclone' Williams (ste...@bigfoot.com) wrote:
>: Ere, get a load of dis Min...@the-mission.com (Mindcryme), oo wrote...
><snip>
>: >>
>: >>>>>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.
><snip>
>: 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
><snip>
>: >
>: > 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

No.  You are thinking of Mindcryme.  He is under the impression that ASCII
art is to be viewed in his personal choice of font (MS Sans Serif) and that
art written to be viewed in this font is correctly formatted, and the art
written to be viewed in the, indeed proper, font is incorrect.

I'm sorry I did not make this clearer.

>    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

Ooooh.  Strop.

>    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.

You are talking to the wrong person, but yu wont get a chance, he's too
scared to crosspost out of AFJR.

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