What exactly have you done to these people? I remember reading the Roqua thread when I registered my first account there, since it was at the top of the "retardo hall of fame" or whatever it was called. I didn't see nothing in it to invoke such pain.
I understand my case, because I was constantly making fun of Trash for instance. The guy used to open up a lot on the forums about his psychiatric problems, drug use, unemployment and else, so when he tried to bully someone in a political/religion discussion or whatever and received it back from me he couldn't deal with it. Same with DU, the guy has a massive inferiority complex and will ban anybody who offends him.
I understand why they are so butthurt about me, but fact is they seem to hate you even more.
I know this sounds like narcissism, but probably jealousy. I have come to realize that is the root of most bullying, an instinct of the broken and pathetic to try to put down any superior competitors.
I did BS and exaggerate at times for laughs and even falsely pretend to be older than I am there but the kernel of truth is enough to drive some people wild with rage. However they are really raging against their own inadequacy more than anything that's wrong with anyone else. Especially our mutual girlfriend Trash, who was too much of a pussy to ever stand up to me when I posted on the board, but now talks smack about me all day now that I don't post there any more. He is the definition of 'punk ass bitch'. I have mellowed out a bit in last decade or I would be demanding plane tickets for real over his bizarre behavior.
I don't think a grown man who has a good life like Corwin is going to be upset at whatever claims I make, just like I would not be. I meet all kinds of interesting people from all around the world, some of whom are incredibly brilliant. For some people though, to know someone has a high IQ and is very good at a difficult job is enough to inspire incredulity and jealousy. DarkUnderlord went into some big thing around when I left about making 50000 dollars PER YEAR like it is some big deal. I just had to laugh at such nonsense, that is the level of some people.
Of course this kind of stuff is dependent on where you live and all (in a lot of commie europe they even have salary caps if you can believe it, they are basically slaves) but if that is your attitude I can understand being upset by someone who has an IQ over 150 and a good job and lots of skill programming. I guess it is a bit of a 'troll' to rub it in the faces of cretins who get incredulous over very mild accomplishments. It gives me a good laugh though. Of course if I knew I would ever make a game I would not behave in quite the same manner I would try to be less flippant and controversial. Still I really didn't ever DO anything to warrant any sort of hatred. As you pointed out though it is pretty obvious they have some dire vendetta on me anyway. Contrary to popular belief the only people who actively disliked me were people like Roqua who was completely nucking futs, sheek who is a true outcast, maybe one or two others I don't remember. I often agreed with trash's position on politics especially the environment, just not his completely demented logic. I don't remember really fighting with him too much to be honest, if anything I usually laid off him even when he said stupid stuff because he seemed to have a pretty rough life and a lot of 'issues'.
Oh, what would they do if they met someone REALLY impressive? A friend of the family married the head of NASA from way back when NASA still had smart people. I mean, he was pretty smart guy but I did not feel the need to worship at his feet or something. Some time ago some codexer brought up FAA and was talking some stupid shit and I mentioned that my brother's wife was the daughter of former head of the FAA (who recently died by falling down the stairs). He had a different opinion than whatever idiot was mouthing off.
I can see doubting some of this, but unlike most people I don't talk on subjects that require real knowledge without knowing exactly what I am talking about. So I have to wonder about people that don't seem to have anything going on in life, no knowledge of anything, and just spout out whatever BS they read in some magazine article the other day. When it comes to technical computery stuff I am willing to bet I outstrip the whole codex by a wide margin. I also have a pretty incredible memory so I can drudge stuff up I read one time 18 years ago to comment on subjects that seem totally arcane to most people. The only one from codex who seems to know his buttocks from a hole in a log is actually Cleveland Mark Blakemore.
So I may seem like a knowitall to some people, but if you are not a knowitall for reals, you should not be talking about a subject. Of course I don't really mean politics etc. which everyone has a view on (though most are completely ignorant of history and often even world events).
As far as Roqua goes, that was all a joke on my part. He is the one who went mental. Of course if he really offered a plane ticket I would have gone, and also met him. There is no way that doughy little freak would talk smack to me in real life, and even if he did attack me or something I would have no problem defending myself from him and six more like him :lol:
Deep down they are little people, just like Roqua. Little men who go into a rage at someone who is smarter, more masculine, more handsome and more successful. It's just like those loonies who want to have super strict gun control laws. It's not so much an issue with other people or 'society' but some internal issue/paranoia they have where they cannot stand the thought of people being independent.