Comments on: On The Tantalizing Fringe http://blog.thefurryone.net/2008/05/06/on-the-tantalizing-fringe/ Ramblings and musings of John Zeitler. Sat, 22 Nov 2008 00:24:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Josh Miller http://blog.thefurryone.net/2008/05/06/on-the-tantalizing-fringe/#comment-24607 Josh Miller Wed, 07 May 2008 18:55:26 +0000 http://blog.thefurryone.net/?p=592#comment-24607 Rick: I have that same problem in Pokemon. Sure, Jigglypuff and Skitty are cute but that doesn't make them good Pokemon for a "main team"... but I'll do it anyway. Anyway, in consistence with the third from last paragraph. I used to "bash Linux" because it was funt o screw with elitist Linux users. Now that I've used Linux a lot, multiple distros, heck I have a laptop currently running Linux, I still will say I dislike/hate Linux and that it pretty much sucks for anything other than a server that doesn't require human interaction. 90% of the time when I feel the need to actually install some flavor of it, I end up wondering "why do I need this?" and scrapping the whole thing once I get it running. The point is, that just because someone uses it doesn't mean they like it or are defined by it on any level. Basically I'm supporting the "likely" part of ... "If all you knew about me was that I owned a Mac, it’s likely that my definition includes the property “likes Macs” but it is in no way necessary that it include the property." because "likely" is certainly not "definitely". Rick: I have that same problem in Pokemon. Sure, Jigglypuff and Skitty are cute but that doesn’t make them good Pokemon for a “main team”… but I’ll do it anyway.

Anyway, in consistence with the third from last paragraph. I used to “bash Linux” because it was funt o screw with elitist Linux users. Now that I’ve used Linux a lot, multiple distros, heck I have a laptop currently running Linux, I still will say I dislike/hate Linux and that it pretty much sucks for anything other than a server that doesn’t require human interaction.

90% of the time when I feel the need to actually install some flavor of it, I end up wondering “why do I need this?” and scrapping the whole thing once I get it running.

The point is, that just because someone uses it doesn’t mean they like it or are defined by it on any level. Basically I’m supporting the “likely” part of …

“If all you knew about me was that I owned a Mac, it’s likely that my definition includes the property “likes Macs” but it is in no way necessary that it include the property.”

because “likely” is certainly not “definitely”.

]]> By: John http://blog.thefurryone.net/2008/05/06/on-the-tantalizing-fringe/#comment-24576 John Wed, 07 May 2008 09:24:48 +0000 http://blog.thefurryone.net/?p=592#comment-24576 Rick: Also I'm not nearly as competitive as you are in that arena, and you're really the only consistent human opponent I have to go against. Rob: I think maybe you might have missed my point. Rick: Also I’m not nearly as competitive as you are in that arena, and you’re really the only consistent human opponent I have to go against.

Rob: I think maybe you might have missed my point.

]]> By: Rob Browning http://blog.thefurryone.net/2008/05/06/on-the-tantalizing-fringe/#comment-24557 Rob Browning Wed, 07 May 2008 03:09:24 +0000 http://blog.thefurryone.net/?p=592#comment-24557 It's not that using a Mac makes you an insufferably smug bastard, it's that the only <i>reason</i> to use a Mac is to be an insufferably smug bastard. Rob It’s not that using a Mac makes you an insufferably smug bastard, it’s that the only reason to use a Mac is to be an insufferably smug bastard.

Rob

]]> By: 32_footsteps http://blog.thefurryone.net/2008/05/06/on-the-tantalizing-fringe/#comment-24537 32_footsteps Tue, 06 May 2008 20:24:09 +0000 http://blog.thefurryone.net/?p=592#comment-24537 Correction: the "I'm a Mac, I'm a PC" ads are wildly popular <i>amongst Mac owners</i>. Everyone else pretty much loathes them - to the point that I've actually heard people proclaim that they're going to buy PCs to spite them. These ads are also part of why non-Mac owners think Mac owners are pompous assholes - Justin Long comes off as extremely smug in those commercials. Though I will note that I think the "nobody else uses it" impetus is part of why I keep beating you at Pokemon - you're more likely attracted to the less-used Pokemon, without considering why they're less used, or coming up with ways to compensate for their flaws. Correction: the “I’m a Mac, I’m a PC” ads are wildly popular amongst Mac owners. Everyone else pretty much loathes them - to the point that I’ve actually heard people proclaim that they’re going to buy PCs to spite them. These ads are also part of why non-Mac owners think Mac owners are pompous assholes - Justin Long comes off as extremely smug in those commercials.

Though I will note that I think the “nobody else uses it” impetus is part of why I keep beating you at Pokemon - you’re more likely attracted to the less-used Pokemon, without considering why they’re less used, or coming up with ways to compensate for their flaws.

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