From: f.e ()
Date: May 16, 2008
Subject:
Re: Re: Max5 == Physical Pain
Chris,
Thanks for your answer.
Chris Muir a écrit :
>
> You're at least wrong in the way you're going about addressing your
> issues with Max 5. You mention a "no rounded corners" request, but what
> I read was much closer to a "no rounded corners" DEMAND. I think the way
> you've been expressing your opinion is detrimental to your cause. I
> think that with each successive rant, the desire to do anything to
> accommodate your wishes goes down, at least I know it would have if the
> rants had been directed at me.
I always made this as a request, since the first picture of max 5
appeared on the web. Undeniably angry, yes, but asking. Nobody took this
serisously. Of course c74 were busy with bigger problems i certainly
understand. But i hope they didn't add a "roundness $1" because it was
hard to do, not because they looked down upon such a request (they never
did before so i wonder why they could start).
It was not a weirdo request, it was the first one which came in mind of
lots of maxers around here. As i know i'm not the only one, i'm still
amazed how easy can people toe the line, in general. Because it seemed
so natural this thing should be done, i could have been singing some
very angry Violent Femmes song but i doubt i behave as an asshole.
I know that now, obviously, a "roudness $1" won't appear in 5.0.3,
because you may have felt me as a pushy punk, but this is a very
misunderstanding.
Don't forget that mails, and text messages in general, are far to be
reliable in terms of expressing the full range of feelings and the very
mind of their authors, especially in a foreign language. So, my
apologies if i bothered anybody around here, but these nasty
suppositories you call object boxes went right into my ass.
Max is one of the only software i know that IS your final product. I
mean, you use any other software to do something with (photoshop, msvc.
etc.) and you can forget it because your result will be something else.
But max stays in your result. The way it looks is not really something
to take funny.
>
> Because of all the things you hate about Max 5, you've threatened to use
> something else, like PD. Maybe at this point maybe you should get
> serious about that. I feel bad about suggesting that because you've been
> helpful to people here in the past, but your "sad and angry choir" has
> gotten tedious. Either find a way to come to terms with Max 5, or move
> on. Everyone on the list probably knows what changes you would like to
> see in Max, by now, but I don't think the "sad and angry choir" approach
> is getting you any closer to them.
>
> -C
That's not fair and you already know that. I won't stop using Max
because i simply cannot. It has no competitors and i'm stuck with it.
Just picture my "sad and angry choir" if i went using pD :-) So it's not
right to say take it or leave it because there's no way to leave it.
I hope to like max 5 the other way than a 12 years old indian girl does
to love the husband she's forced to get married with.
I made peace with max 5 as i already told you.
Best wishes
f.e
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