One thing I note about this forum, is it doesn't immediately send you to your thread or post when you create it so you can see the actual results of your post. One could very well easily press the submit button and then close their browser without so much as seeing their submitted post. Therefore I don't think you can discount such an excuse for not reviewing your post. How can we take away such an excuse? either a mandatory preview before submit, or automatic view after submission can help prevent posting mistakes and at the same time discredit such excuses, but it is not done here.tokage wrote:Why? Because it shows that you didn't care enough about your own thread to look at it after you posted nor notice that the subject is wrong when returning to the forum.
I also find it strange that, when some one posts something that is similar to spam, people feel that it is necessary to reply to it and also provide no positive or constructive feedback to it. In fact, any reply to spam is very much just as useless as the spam itself. This may occur because the forums are mostly self moderated, and therefore people feel that they need respond negatively to any spam or frivolous postings. The issue about such confrontational moderation, is that it doesn't really help moderate the forums as it simply causes a derailment from the topic to an argument on forum etiquette and post acceptability. As well, it just leads to more bickering and even more useless posts, especially if a majority of threads devolve into the discussion of "I think you are just spamming"
Now maybe I'll actually try to post something that is remotely on topic.
I thought I read the blogs before, but I guess I have memory worse than a gold fish, because when I first read the question, the fact that "Fire Pong" was a game mentioned in the Blogs that I had read went completely over my head.
For me, I can only claim to have programmed one game before. It was a class project and I programmed a clone of centipede on a simple computer (CUSP, a virtual processor in a virtual environment) using assembly. I'm just glad I made the spiders dumb so they didn't pwn me in my own game.