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Offline Droom

Confession of Selfishness
« on: December 04, 2013, 07:16:06 am »
I think I've read every thread on all of the great Civ. sites as a total lurker. I've rarely contributed.

It's so funny because I'm a technical writer by trade and yet I've never felt comfortable participating in forums - its really hard for me to communicate in this venue.

Anyway, I want to apologize. A couple of months ago, I thought I'd dig in and get involved in the community by helping with the thread for a program to switch between patches and/or mods; as I had written a DOS batch file a few years ago which basically did just that. The thread puzzled me, because I thought everyone knew DOS. But before uploading this dinosaur, I thought on it for a few days. Then I realized that we don't have an override directory, but we could create one.
 
The night before I had to go on a month-long trip, I tried to explain it on the thread. For some reason, I couldn't upload my jpeg  files for my tutorial. I was p.o.'ed and I was rude. Again, I apologize.

I'm back and I have the solution and I'm going to the modding forum and post it tomorrow. (heh)

For what it's worth, I love this site. You're my kind of people. Though I may never talk with you, I feel that you're my friends.
 
 

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Re: Confession of Selfishness
« Reply #1 on: December 04, 2013, 03:43:31 pm »
Among the more glorious duties in my storied job history was having the honor of updating a group who had only ever used dumb terminals straight to a windows xp environment. 

I learned how interesting it can be to attempt to teach the use of a mouse to people who had never seen it...

So, while you may as well be speaking greek there, I can totally understand getting POed and rude when people aren't understanding something you find to be simple/common sense. 

 

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