So, yet again, a highly vocal KoL player with way too much time on their hands has decided to attack KoLmafia and KoLmafia users, over on G-D. Apparently, he's decided that using KoLmafia is either "cheating", somehow, because it gives people advantages he doesn't have, or he thinks they "aren't playing the game" because they are "having a program play for them", or, well, any number of similar crappy viewpoints.
Aside from my inability to post over there, I'm really not interested in arguing with the Hard of Thinking, but others have stepped in. Futilely, I am sure, but if they enjoy it, why not?
I just saw a gem of a post from Half a tin of Grizzly on that thread which sums it up perfectly, in my opinion. He wrote (edited slightly):
Thank you.
Aside from my inability to post over there, I'm really not interested in arguing with the Hard of Thinking, but others have stepped in. Futilely, I am sure, but if they enjoy it, why not?
I just saw a gem of a post from Half a tin of Grizzly on that thread which sums it up perfectly, in my opinion. He wrote (edited slightly):
I laughed and applauded. Bingo. I then sent him MY attitude, which is even more extreme:Half a tin of Grizzly said:I don't understand where you anti-Mafia types come up with the notion that people who use Mafia are under some obligation to justify that decision to you. That implication mystifies me. I generally use Mafia because it's a convenient tool that improves my KoL experience and, try as I might, I can't think of a single reason why I should give a shit whether or not you approve.Tawt Strat said:Isn't the usual argument that's trotted out to justify it that it's so you don't have to do stuff that you have already done hundreds of times and are completely bored with?
You guys are great. I am glad that KoLmafia works for you. I am happy to help keep it working for you.I write KoLmafia to improve my KoL experience and that of others who use it. Since it takes my precious freely given time to add features to it, projects I choose to do to improve it primarily aim towards improving MY experience, but, we have a good community of users, and I often willing spend my precious freely given time to fix their bugs and add features that make their experience better. However, I do not give a shit about whether any particular player chooses to use or chooses to not use the program. If someone likes it and choose to use it and, best of all, chooses to join the community at kolmafia.us, great! If someone chooses to not use it, I could not care less. I am completely uninterested in trying to convince them to use it. I am completely uninterested in hearing why they don't use it. I am completely uninterested in spending my precious freely given time to change it in the hopes that they might use it.
Thank you.