The
Chronicles of Wavelength
For some reason I never really
could get this brief but frienzed exchange with the one who was known
as Wavelength out of my mind. I'm a forgiving person, but somehow I
just couldn't let it go. Never in my somewhat limited history of the
Internet have I met someone
like Wavelength. (Or W@velength, or however he's spelling it these days)
Finally I decided that maybe something good will come of this whole
encounter if I put it up here and hopefully people can just look at it
and laugh (I sure didn't). This is mostly just meant to be cathartic
for me, but I hope someone out there enjoys it.
I just hope wavey himself does not find this page as he
would likely launch into a tirade of garbage that would be very
irritating.
W@velength entered the doomworld
forums one fateful day and began an epic journey of
the most retarded arguments ever to be seen on any forum anywhere.
Being the sort of way-too-analytical person I am, I've always tried to
work out in my mind how his works, and I still can't.
My best theory has been that he was simply being a troller, purposely
playing dumb to get people all riled up. If such is the case, I can't
imagine why he would spend so much time updating a website that
nobody else will read (except me, I guess. Two points for
Wavelength)
Second-best theory: Wavelength may be a somewhat intelligent person,
maybe slightly above average. He believes himself to be
super-intelligent, but maybe deep down he's not so sure. That's why
he's very insecure about what he thinks to be a vastly superior
intellect. If anyone ever disagrees with him, it's a sleight to his
enormous brain and he feels compelled to insult and do anything he can
to silence them. It doesn't matter how sound anyone's argument is, he
will treat it as a clearly inferior remark that does not even need to
be considered before dismissing as total and utter garbage, sprinkling
his reposte with as much insulting and profanity as possible. I'm
convinced he doesn't even read the posts of people who would dare argue
with him, merely skimming so he thinks he gets the general gist.
Here's where it started: Doomworld, the news site for all things
related to the game Doom, was posting information about a new project
called Freedoom. The idea was that people could contribute to a project
that would replace all of Doom's graphics, sounds, and other resources
so they would have a perfectly legal freeware version of Doom that
could be distributed on the Internet (and hence people could play doom
online with each other without buying the game. Pretty neat, huh?)
W@velength posts the following message on the forum regarding the
update:
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"WTF?!?" posted Wednesday Sep 19 15:45:30 2001
I
contributed an
entire damn Chaingun replacement- Where the hell is my credit? That
thing took me a long damn time!
life isn't worth living until you've found something
worth dying
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"fraggle" posted Wednesday Sep 19 16:30:07 2001
Yeah, it
"got lost"
life isn't worth living until you've found something
worth dying
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I'll let you draw
your own conclusions from this, but this is
nothing compared to what comes next.
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"" posted Wednesday Sep 19 16:53:50 2001
...well, if
anyone wants the sprite, I have it. I guess we aren't supposed to send
submissions anymore, so...
p.s. also got a nifty robots that replaces mancubus
life isn't worth living until you've found something
worth dying
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Okay, because of
something he did wrong, "we're not supposed to send
submissions anymore"
The next time there's a freedoom mention, he posts this.
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"" posted Thursday Sep 27 21:00:14 2001
You guys
want my Chaingun replacement, give me a ring.
ling: "oh and by the way i am in college majoring in astrophysics"
wave: "have fun wasting your life..."
life isn't worth living until you've found something
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If he had bothered to look on the
website there's a very easy-to-find
comprehensive guide to uploading your work via an FTP link. W@velength
instead expects the Freedoom moderators to get the sprites from him,
when I might add, there already is a reasonable chaingun replacement. I
step in and play nice.
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"..." posted Thursday Sep 27 23:44:45 2001
This is how
it works. If you have something original to contribute, first check the
status page to see if it's already done or assigned. If it's not there,
FTP it over.
All the instructions for which are on the site if you care to look for
them.
If you're not done yet, e-mail fraggle and ask him to reserve it for
you.
meh
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"" posted Friday Sep 28 04:37:10 2001
wave
believes he should be treated differently to the rest of the world and
contribute in his own unique way.
shut your mouth, and open your eyes
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"grrr" posted Saturday Sep 29 01:58:22 2001
...My
chaingun sprite is better! and i only used MS Paint. And Jon you are an
idiot, ignoramus
i just like taunting you... "is he gonna give up the sprite or not?" ;]
life isn't worth living until you've found something
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The next time Freedoom updates, he's at it again.
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"okay" posted Thursday Oct 04 23:41:28 2001
Chaingun
replacement(uncompiled) is on my site:
www.angelfire.com/realm/silvericarus
use it in Freedoom or your computer dies.
life isn't worth living until you've found something
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By this point I'm completely
frustrated. He's obviously not listening
to the help I'm offering him. I decide out of curiousity to look at his
graphics on his site. It's a machine gun drawn in MS Paint with one
solid grey colour, with one-tone hands holding it. It looks extremely
square. The animation has a bullet casing that flies out the side, that
would look cool if it wasn't just a yellow rectangle hovering in the
air for one frame.
I know that he probably skimmed over my post suggesting how to upload,
and decided to lay it out nice and simple for him.
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"w@velength:" posted Friday Oct 05 16:37:52 2001
W@velength:
1. The chaingun already has had a replacement for months.
2. The current chaingun replacement is much better than yours.
meh
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I want you to notice I said that the
existing one was better. I didn't
say his work sucks, which I could have. I only said that there was
already a chaingun and it was perfectly good.
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"Hyena" posted Friday Oct 05 17:13:23 2001
Yeah, and
I'm sure you have a lot of shitty textures your receiving, too- the
point is, here is my submission, take it.
oh and thanks for ruining my day, asshole.
life isn't worth living until you've found something
worth dying
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Don't you just love this guy?
Incidentally, just to help you to see
what sort of person this guy is, here are some things he posted on his
website:
What's
the
deal
with people getting mad at me for submitting my own inquiry to their
conversations? Don't tell me you weren't talking to me. Don't tell me
to mind my own business. If you are being loud enough for me to hear
you, it IS my business. If I can hear you, I am part of the
conversation. If you don't like it, you can leave the room, and reep
the consequences.
Now this is just obnoxiousness. I can literally see the conversation
he's referring to. A couple of people in a school are talking about
something their friend did that they didn't approve of.
Mr. Wavey here happens to be in the room and hears them and walks up
and starts ranting about how they're idiots and how their friend can do
whatever he wants.
And he expects them
to leave the room if they don't like his "opinion".
Eventually, Wavelength did get banned from Doomworld. (Several times
in fact, and he kept coming back and being the same moron. I'll get to
that later)
Here he sums up his experience:
Doomworld.
They banned me ever since someone had the nerve to compliment my
grammar and criticize theirs. Although I must admit, it is a noble way
to go out. Whenever someone asks me why I was banned, I reply: "Because
I'm better than they are, and they know it." I think the funniest
exchange I've ever had with someone in the Doom community was a short
e-mail conversation between myself and the founder and lead dork of
Doomworld himself, "Linguicia"(misspelling of Linguini or
something). I believe I sent him a link to an article thoroughly
proving that playing too many computer and video games resulted in
brain-rot. The conversation went something like this:
Wavelength:
Here's an article you might find
interesting.
***24
hours later***
Linguicia:
I question the validity of that
man's Phd
Linguicia:
And btw, I'm majoring in
astrophysics
right now so I think I'm doing all right
***24
hours later***
Wavelength:
Why yes, I would like fries with
that.
Here are the highlights of that
little rant.
1. He was banned because he was better then everyone else, and they
know it. (Are you busting a gut yet?)
2. Linguica (The guy who ran doomworld for the longest time) is named
after a sausage. It's not a misspelling of Linguini. And ironically,
Wavelength misspelled Linguica when he wrote that.
3. If that's the funniest exchange he's ever had, this person has led a
sad existence.
Another thing he says that infuriates me a little bit has to do with a
sort of philosophy that people in Doomworld have. They think that you
shouldn't try to "please everyone" with your work (as such is
impossible) but simply make something that you enjoy working on and if
people like it, great.
Another
cutes aspect of the Doom community,
and
other active gaming communities as well, is the whole "We don't owe you
anything" attitude. When someone releases a level and people say it
sucks, more often than not the author or authors will respond with
something along the lines of: "Well we made this thing with our own
time and sweat, free of charge, so we owe nothing to you." Wrong. When
you make a level with the purpose of releasing it on the internet,
where people will take time out of their lives to download and play it,
you owe everyone a GOOD level.
Do you get that? If I work on a
doom level for a month, I owe it to this
guy to make it something he likes.
Truly the most exasperating experience I had with him is the following
debate.
Doomworld had posted an image from a game show in Germany where someone
was wearing a Doom T-Shirt. (Now, this is long before Doom3 came out.
These days seeing Doom shirts is not rare at all, but at the time it
was a sight to see)
Here's the image.
Linguica added these comments:
"I have no idea what sort of game show this is, but I hope the guy won.
Thanks quake.de. Remember, send in those
Doom pics!"
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"yes" posted Tuesday Oct 16 22:29:22 2001
ROFL that
guys does look like a freaking idiot retard. Look at the pic in the
corner; looks like he is having his brain sucked out or something. But
hey that is how some Germans are. Gotta' love those BMWs though.
Hey, if the Germans don't like us shooting nazis in wolf-3d then they
shouldn't have fucked-up twice and set off two wars. When a powerful
alliance of nations tells you not to build outside a certain limit, you
better damn well follow that command.
-need a t-shirt with a cyberdemon pointing his gun at you and it says
"take it all bitch"
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"w@velength:" posted Thursday Oct 18 01:32:27 2001
Wavelength:
The Germans did not start both world wars. First, WWI began when
Austria invaded Serbia. Second, there's a fine line between being one
of the guys who orchestrated the attacks on Poland and being the
ancestor of a guy who lived in fear under them. If you can't tell the
difference, then you sir are a bigot.
meh
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"em" posted Thursday Oct 18 18:54:35 2001
1. Yes, the
Germans did start both wars, I don't know WHAT the fuck kind of history
you learned by that stuff never happened.
2. I never said I hated Germans. In fact I took german in
high-school(even though it sucked, too damn gutteral), and am part
german.
3. I'd rather be a bigot than a slimey fucker like your best friend.
I'll tell you who is a bigot; the people of countries that despise the
U.S. for personal or no reason whatsoever, jealousy or what have you.
4. "killing jews? we were following orders!" my ass.
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I should think the intense moronity in this post should cause physical
pain to many of you that read it, in which case I apologize for
subjecting it to you.
I still feel I should mention a couple of things.
First, I learned about World War I in grade 10 history class. I guess
he didn't. Not only that, but I found that my history teacher, while
compelling, got a few minor facts wrong so I did a little bit of
private research. (He said that Gavrilo Princip was just some guy who
wanted to kill the Archduke and so he took his pistol and went over and
shot him. I noticed later it was said that Princip threw a bomb, and
that he was part of a terrorist group.) So I know what I'm talking
about.
The "following orders my ass" remark really pissed me off because he
clearly didn't know I was talking about the people living in Germany,
not the soldiers. I still to this day regret that I forgot to mention
that my freaking Aunt Barbel came from Germany and her family fled
during the second world war. I suppose this makes her a dirty
Jew-killer who doesn't deserve to be upset at nazi-killing video games?
(I have no problems with Wolfenstein 3d, but if people found it
upsetting because of personal history, I can easily understand that)
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"w@velength:" posted Thursday Oct 18 20:01:08 2001
"Yes, the
Germans did start both wars, I don't know WHAT the fuck kind of history
you learned"
Jeez, wavelength. Ignorance is one thing, but now you're telling me
that I'm ignorant.
A Serbian terrorist killed Archduke Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary.
Austria then declared war on Serbia.
Serbia asked Russia for help.
Russia promised to help if Serbia was invaded by Austria. Russia sends
troops to the borders of Austria-Hungary and Germany (AH's ally)
Germany declares war on Russia, then France.
Germany invades France through Belgium, and Britain declares war on
Germany.
The first declaration of war is between Austria-Hungary and Serbia,
therefore Austria-Hungary started WWI.
Look it up.
meh
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"w@velength:" posted Thursday Oct 18 20:04:56 2001
("killing
jews? we were following orders!" my ass.)
Read my post. I'm not talking about the nazi troops. I'm talking about
the germans who lived in fear.
Now, would you please shut your irate nonsensical hate-filled stubborn
self-righteous face?
meh
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"" posted Saturday Oct 20 00:10:45 2001
Wow, never
seen anyone so upset over being wrong before. Did you learn your
history from a MAD magazine? Because those are jokes. Yes your history
is seriously flawed. And I need you to prove that I am self-righteous
and hate-filled and what not, because I think my original point was
that those are what you are. Stop trying to change the subject
from the Great War to the Russian Revolution, because you have your
facts mixed up.
Want to feel an insult? I ravaged your mom. Her yeast infection was so
bad, bread fell out of her snatch. 9 months later she had you. You know
the rest.
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"w@velength:" posted Sunday Oct 21 17:27:47 2001
W@velength:
All insults, swear words and shit-flinging aside, all it comes down to
is:
You are wrong.
meh
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"and not so
long ago......" posted Sunday
Oct 21 18:20:19 2001
....ppl were
actually talking about the POTD.
*kills friend in Doom Legacy split screen* - jumps
twice while saying -
MEEP MEEP!
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"w@velength:" posted Sunday Oct 21 19:35:52 2001
By the way,
I want you to go to a local university or college or even high school
and find someone who teaches history.
Tell them that Germany started WWI and see what they say.
I learned this in school in grade 10, w@velength, and there were
several references to it in the other four history courses I took which
I can assure you I did not fail.
And if you really think I'm hate-filled, the only reason I'm
arguing with you is that I want you to learn from this. I can admit
when I'm wrong and if you do the same I will easily lay off.
Also note that you're being twice as insulting as I am, not that I take
offense to a remark that you say to everyone who you disagree with
(yeast infection, huh?)
meh
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I should note that he made the yeast infection joke before to someone
else.
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""hyena,
the narrowminded moron" posted
Sunday Oct 21 23:08:16 2001
Thanks for
proving my point.
You are completely wrong. If you would actually read your sources, and
find Austria on the map, you'd see that the Germans DID start WWI. Stop
making an ass of yourself, more than you already have, because everyone
agrees that you are a whiney, sore loser.
I am doing this because I want the young and weak-minded, like you, to
learn from this. You are going to meet people in life who out-do you in
everything you attempt.
I hear slimey assholes like you all the time: "go to a college and ask
a professor" well these 'professors' sound like real idiotic people,
bent on controlling people's minds and taking over the world. Maybe it
is just the fact you live in Nebraska or something, that you get this
false information. Maybe you should sit down and take a pill and read a
book and grow some imagination and creativity, as well as a dick, and
stop thinking about professors, as highly opinionated as they
are.
Don't fuck with intelligent people because it doesn't fly with them.
And tell your parents; "it's never too late for an abortion." Read some
history, idiot.
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"hahahaha" posted Monday Oct 22 00:07:15 2001
w@velength,
nice response. Everyone has a totally different mind from everyone...
everyone thinks totally different. What you think of yourself isn't
always what others think of you, is it because you only know yourself?
Could be. Maybe everyone should learn this lesson, I honestly feel I am
very intelligent and very book smart. This is not always the case...
some people might think I'm a dumbass. Not all College professors and
such can rectify "all" problems therefore they shouldn't always be the
#1 case to refer to. Heh, all you dumb cats make me laugh... Germany
started WWI!
P.S. My girlfriend is from Nebraska and her eyes are brown... maybe
it's because of the bull shit that flys? That's true.
Oblivion HQ Productions - President
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You believe this? He actually got someone else to take his side!
However, I did get a good number of people to support me as well, so
hopefully that says something. Arguing with someone like this guy is
taxing on your sanity.
It wasn't long before an administrator deleted his account. There were
so many things I had left to yell at him but in hindsight he wouldn't
have gotten the point anyway.
I'm still trying to figure out exactly what his reasoning was for
thinking Germany started World war I. If he thinks that professors are
purposely telling me incorrect information and that Austria-Hungary
didn't actually start the war (it's a mind-controlling scheme to take
over the world?) then exactly how does he know that Germany did it?
My best guess is he doesn't trust "history" because he thinks if few
people are still around to tell the story we can't really get an
accurate depiction of what happened. If such is the case he doesn't
seem to understand how history works. Eye witnesses see things, they
describe them. They get written down. Newspapers existed in the 1910's,
and the assassination of the Archduke happened in front of many many
people. When you look at different sources for the same story, you'll
see what they have in common and what they don't, and you're able to
deduce for yourself what you think the real story is. Every time
someone writes an article or a report, they include a bibliography so
you can see for yourself where things came from.
I checked many different online encyclopedias and they all said that
World War I began with the assassination of the Archduke, and the
subsequent invasion of Serbia.
W@velength basically just "decided" that Germany started World War I,
and I'm supposed to treat that as more true than historical records?
Good job, W@velength. I salute you, you racist ignoramus.
As a side note, I would like to say that I later did some research and
found out that W@velength put his zip code in his ICQ profile, so it
only took a quick search on internet white pages to find out what his
address and phone number are.
(Don't e-mail me asking what they are because now that I've said I have
them on my website, any legal action would be headed my way even if I
didn't do it.)
I waited for him to say one more stupid thing so I'd have an excuse to
do something with that information, but as it happened, he never did
attack me again after that. I even invited him into a chat room where
he actually came off as somewhat civil (I was pretty shocked) and after
that I felt no need to do anything gruesome. Oh well. Let it be known
that I am not hate-filled.