From: rusbasan@expert.cc.purdue.edu (Bob Rusbasan)
Newsgroups: rec.games.video
Subject: Re: BLAST PROCESSING -- SHUT UP!
Date: 20 Dec 92 20:35:36 GMT
Organization: Purdue University Computing Center

In article <1h2c68INNiak@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> bz320@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (John E. Ray) writes:
>It is not a question of  being able to use a  news reader....

>It is a question of following a thread hoping...praying...that
>SOMEONE...ANYONE will finally get it into their head that the
>discussion is pointless, useless, and blown completely out of 
>proportion

Ha ha -- now *that's* funny.  You call everyone involved in this
thread an idiot for thinking there might be some substance in Sega's
ads, and then you go looking for some substance in the "Blast
Processing" thread.  Go figure.

>... yeah lets fire the people at Sega who coined the
>phrase "blast processing"...and every other advertiser on the
>planet as well.  Great argument...great topic...great points
>made by everyone... [sarcasm]  

The reason I have chosen to post is because that "fire" comment
seems aimed and something I said.

The thread started when someone asked what this "blast processing"
thing was.  This is not an "idiotic" question since in some cases
real, tangible features have been given fancy names.  As most posts
pointed out, there is no "blast processing" thing in the Genesis --
it is just Sega's way of saying it is fast while trying to make
you think they are saying something more.  What is so idiotic about
people wanting a clarification of that?

No one said to fire the person who coined the phrase.  *I* said that
the person who decided to show Super Mario Kart should be canned
because that particular game is quite fun and shows some "blast
processing" that a Genesis probably couldn't duplicate since it
lacks hardware rotation.  It was just an offhand comment, and I
don't know who made that decision, so I really can't tell whether
or not they should be fired.  I'm sorry you took it so hard --
was it a relative of yours?

Fire all advertisers?  No, and no one suggested it.  Hope for better
advertising that accurately reflects reality?  Sure, why not?  Count
on it?  Only a fool would.

>BTW, perhaps people who REALLY need to use news readers are those
>who quote 90% of a message when it has nothing to do with their
>point.

Knowing that "blast processing" was a non-feature, you continued to
read a very long thread about it.  When it went on too long for your
tastes, you exploded and called everyone involved an idiot, thus
starting a new thread that has even less to do with video games.
Finally, you have taken someone else's comment about your perceived
inability to use a news reader and seem to want to use it to start
another flame war about who REALLY needs to learn what.

Since you also mentioned your account is going away soon, perhaps you
thought that you'd stir up things intentionally for a final bit of
fun.  If not, then I suggest you calm down.  Your initial post in
this thread had some humor in it, and you could have edited out all
the references to idiots and gently poked fun at the people who had
been prolonging the discussion.  Most people would have thought it
was amusing, and you would have made your point much better.  As it 
stands now, you have annoyed a bunch of people by calling them idiots.

This is my last post on this subject, for obvious reasons.

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