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On 4/27/2024 at 9:41 PM, paqart said:
So if someone tells me I don't know geometry because of a misunderstanding about the shape of a slab, he has to know geometry better? Look, RMA ruffled my feathers,
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On 4/27/2024 at 9:39 PM, Domo Arigato said:
STFU!
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On 4/27/2024 at 8:55 PM, paqart said:
Are you saying that isn't possible?
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Andrew. Allow me to break my "vow of silence", as it were, for a second, because you're taking some very aggressive shots at me, none of which are justified. When I first responded to your drawing, I had no idea that you had no idea how the mechanics of Gen 2 cases (which is what you have) worked, so I was reminding you...yes, with my "crude" drawing...that what you had drawn was physically impossible without A. popping another corner post, or B. (and infinitely less likely) warping and damaging the inner well and comic inside. Most people I know who spend $$$ on slabs have seen one or two cracked out, or have done it themselves, or at least watched a crackout video on the internet, to familiarize themselves with how the product they're putting so much trust in works. You don't need to crack a 4 or 5 figure slab to do that.
And now, you're angry...again...because you didn't understand what you were dealing with, and when someone gently corrected you, reminding you of the properties of the inner well (and not knowing you didn't know those properties)...with a picture, no less, which is about as non-confrontational as it gets...you immediately assumed bad faith, immediately assumed someone was "making a joke at your expense." But nothing could be further from the truth. I don't need to be "right" at the expense of others. No, I want everyone to be correct, so that everyone works from a position of knowledge.
I am a buyer AND seller of slabs. It is not only in my nature to want to be factually correct about the things that interest me, as a matter of personal pride, but it is in my business interests to make sure that misinformation about slabs doesn't proliferate. While everyone was praising your admittedly excellent drawing, they had missed the fact that there was a glaring error in it: the idea that a comic is not sealed into the inner well, and can simply be "tilted" and "pulled out" if one corner post is broken. That is not correct, for ANY generation of slab.
My goal wasn't to make you feel stupid. My goal was not to anger you. My goal was not to belittle you. My goal was not to "tweak" you. My meme about geometry was a very gentle poke about the physical impossibility of your drawing. My goal isn't...and I cannot emphasize this enough...to "shoo anyone away", but to make sure everyone goes into comics with KNOWLEDGE, because knowledge is power. People who know what they're doing are much, much less likely to be scammed, taken advantage of, or, as in your case, assume they're being taken advantage of when they're not.
My goal was to bring you to understanding, and prevent MISunderstanding in others who, like you, don't know the mechanics of these cases, how they're designed, and how they function, and might look at your drawing and internalize it, thinking what you drew is possible. It is not. It never has been. And it's important that that idea was corrected.
So, just so you know: for Gen 2 (which is what your slab was) slabs, the inner well is nearly the entire length and width of the case, and it is divided into two parts: the bottom part where the comic sits is completely sealed by a sonic weld on all four sides and cannot, outside of QC issues, be opened without cutting on the inside of that weld. The top part contains the label, and is lightly welded into the label on both sides, while the top is unsealed and open.
I get it. You're a very educated and talented man. You spent a lot of time and energy getting to where you are. And no one likes to be corrected, especially in public. But there are a lot of people who know a lot more than you AND me about many subjects here. And there's nothing wrong with that. Instead of assuming bad faith, perhaps just asking "what do you mean by that?" would smooth out the rough spots that may not actually even exist. Everyone has something they know that others don't, and learning is a lifelong process.
I hope my explanation brings clarity, if not reconciliation.
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On 4/27/2024 at 6:42 PM, onlyweaknesskryptonite said:
Doesn't Vintage still have more points?
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On 4/27/2024 at 6:23 PM, paqart said:On 4/27/2024 at 6:14 PM, newshane said:
People these days are soft. Debate is squelched. Honesty abandoned.
I admire the few straight shooters left in the world. I wish there were more of them.
If you mean RMA, and my apologies if you don't, he is not a "straight-shooter." He too often assumes facts not in evidence for the sake of gotcha moments designed to make people look like insufficiently_thoughtful_persons because they were unaware of the information he withheld.
On 4/27/2024 at 6:30 PM, RockMyAmadeus said:
On 4/27/2024 at 6:23 PM, paqart said:gotcha moments designed to make people look like insufficiently_thoughtful_persons because they were unaware of the information he withheld.
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On 4/27/2024 at 6:21 PM, paqart said:
Sugar coating and leaving out essential information are different things. If a mechanic tells me I can't count and I am a certified CPA, I'll be inclined to argue. If he means I don't know how many pistons are in my engine, he's making a totally different claim outside my expertise that I might agree with. Doing things like that is a way for a person with expertise in one field to feel superior to people in other fields who may have less knowledge of the field in question. It is annoying more than clever.
On 4/27/2024 at 8:44 AM, RockMyAmadeus said:
On 4/27/2024 at 9:08 AM, paqart said:It fits, but thanks for the lame gotcha attempt, it was tepidly amusing. I wasn't drawing to scale. There is only so much time to make things like this when there is real work to be done elsewhere.
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On 4/27/2024 at 4:47 PM, paqart said:
snarky comment by RMA that implied I didn't understand Geometry
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On 4/27/2024 at 1:07 PM, paqart said:
Okay, so you're saying that the comic and label section are connected and that the comic is sealed inside so it can't be removed separately?
On 4/27/2024 at 1:07 PM, paqart said:Maybe they are both sitting in the same tray, but can be manipulated separately?
On 4/27/2024 at 1:07 PM, paqart said:You know, if this was what you were saying, a few words instead of all the snark would have made it easier to appreciate the possibility you had some real information to offer.
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Quotepaqart said: It fits, but thanks for the lame gotcha attempt, it was tepidly amusing.
On 4/27/2024 at 1:07 PM, paqart said:but it seems like the comic well is open
On 4/27/2024 at 1:07 PM, paqart said:Otherwise, you may have a point.
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On 4/27/2024 at 12:45 PM, Ccccccccccccc said:
I wish Paqart had kept the slab ;_; and just taken the damn inner sleeve out
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On 4/27/2024 at 11:17 AM, paqart said:
Call me if you want some lessons in geometry, dimensions, volume, etc. I've only written three books on computer graphics that cover the subjects.
EDIT: I just remembered that my PhD is on a related subject, and my publisher liked my thesis so much, it was published as a book also, so that's four books. Totally forgot about that, though the fourth book is technically more about topology than geometry. Still, it's related. It helps that I taught the subjects at university for twelve years also.https://www.logicallyfallacious.com/logicalfallacies/Appeal-to-Accomplishment
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On 4/27/2024 at 11:14 AM, paqart said:
Right. You seem to be trying to say that the comic book is the size of the entire case, which it isn't. Again, nice comedy bit, but you need more seasoning before you go pro.
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On 4/27/2024 at 9:38 AM, newshane said:
I encourage him to abandon speaking through emoticons and images. BRING BACK THE PROSE!
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