Happy New Year!

Just noticed that Derek Smart released Universal Combat as freeware, and then immediately started a flamewar on Blue's News. It's good to see the internet bring in the new year with something as beautiful as this:

81.	Re: Derek Smart	Jan 2, 18:19	dsmart
	I'm doing my masters right now and it's kicking my ass. Just thinking that someone can go in and buy a PhD so he can put it in front of his name fills me with loathing. Why don't you go die Derek? You're too stupid to be doing a masters if you end up believing - and regurgitation - some bullshit on the net. I have no less than three degrees - including a distance learning (something which even MIT, Princeton and everyone else is now offering) Ph.D. which I worked for an earned, am a noted math and AI whiz, have training from the likes of IBM and just about everyone who was anyone in IT back in the eighties and nineties, program in no less than seven languages (one of which I wrote, from scratch), have several publications, IP, one patent pending and God knows what else. Plus, I've been in business long before you got your sorry ass out of high school. ...if you think I got that from a cereal box, while signing deals left and right with most of the industry's top players, while working with people at my calibre, then you have a lot to learn about how real life actually works. Oh, lest I forget, I make a decent living, doing, well, nothing other than what I love doing. With your masters - assuming you ever complete it - you will never, ever, earn what I made in the last five years, in your entire lifespan on Earth. ...and I don't live in a trailer park, in my parents basement or with some whinny old coot. So yeah, go ahead, attack me. ...and gaming is my passion; not attacking people needlessly on the Net just for fun. This message was edited at Jan 5, 09:02.