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| shmokes:
God, Randy needs to hire a public relations person who has some grace. I specifically won't buy his products based on his obnoxious posts on this board. Andy would have to be a moron to identify a feature that his customers wanted and say to himself, "I won't add that do my product because my customers can already get something similar from GroovyGameGear (if they can actually find it on that labrynth of a website). Can you imagine if anyone in any other industry took the absurd position that Randy is taking. What kind of fool would the CEO of Ford have to be to say, "Wow....the sales of hybrid vehicles like the Prius are really taking off. I sure wish we had thought that up independantly of observing consumer behavior towards a competitors product." And, Randy, I was so impressed when you showed how big you were to give props to the inspiration for your product IN THIS THREAD. How long have you been selling this product that you "stole" the idea for? In fact pretty much all of your products are total ripoffs. I remember playing videogames when I was a little kid that had joysticks with balltop handles nearly two decades before GroovyGameGear even existed. I can't believe you'd be such a greedy fraud to steal the invention of the joystick for your personal gain. And don't get me started on the idea of keyboard encoders. That was SOOOO not your invention. And you weren't even fast about stealing the idea of joystick handles. You stole the idea from SlikStik after they had already stolen it. OH THE HUMANITY!!! Your thievery makes me want to vomit. Now, as I quit trying to imitate Randy I have a serious request for him. Since I refuse to buy products from you could you please just stay the hell out of Andy's threads. He is the alternative to Groovy Game Gear for people who can't stand you or your website and some of us would like to get useful information from his threads about his products without having to sift through three pages of flamewars that you incessantly start. |
| Hoopz:
* HooPZ picks up the broken sticks and dead horses before the next battle starts Screw the Pepsi and beer. |
| nostrebor:
Oh, COOL! Schmokes just showed up! And just when this was starting to wind down a little. Too bad he didn't really tell us how he felt... |
| shmokes:
Yeah...sorry, a little late to the party. And too lazy to read more than about a third of the thread (which was no small feat). I'll do my best to fan the flames and help keep Mr. Redenbacher in business. |
| Grasshopper:
--- Quote from: shmokes on April 14, 2005, 02:45:40 pm ---God, Randy needs to hire a public relations person who has some grace. I specifically won't buy his products based on his obnoxious posts on this board. Andy would have to be a moron to identify a feature that his customers wanted and say to himself, "I won't add that do my product because my customers can already get something similar from GroovyGameGear (if they can actually find it on that labrynth of a website). Can you imagine if anyone in any other industry took the absurd position that Randy is taking. What kind of fool would the CEO of Ford have to be to say, "Wow....the sales of hybrid vehicles like the Prius are really taking off. I sure wish we had thought that up independantly of observing consumer behavior towards a competitors product." And, Randy, I was so impressed when you showed how big you were to give props to the inspiration for your product IN THIS THREAD. How long have you been selling this product that you "stole" the idea for? In fact pretty much all of your products are total ripoffs. I remember playing videogames when I was a little kid that had joysticks with balltop handles nearly two decades before GroovyGameGear even existed. I can't believe you'd be such a greedy fraud to steal the invention of the joystick for your personal gain. And don't get me started on the idea of keyboard encoders. That was SOOOO not your invention. And you weren't even fast about stealing the idea of joystick handles. You stole the idea from SlikStik after they had already stolen it. OH THE HUMANITY!!! Your thievery makes me want to vomit. Now, as I quit trying to imitate Randy I have a serious request for him. Since I refuse to buy products from you could you please just stay the hell out of Andy's threads. He is the alternative to Groovy Game Gear for people who can't stand you or your website and some of us would like to get useful information from his threads about his products without having to sift through three pages of flamewars that you incessantly start. --- End quote --- I take no pleasure in saying this, but I essentially agree with what shmokes is saying. I think many people here (myself included) have cut Randy a lot of slack in the past because when all's said and done he does produce good products and it's in the community's interests that his company prospers. But he's really been pushing his luck recently. We all occasionally post thing that we regret later. But virtually every thread that Randy's got involved with recently has degenerated into a ridiculous point scoring exercise, and I place the blame for this firmly at his door. And whilst starting flamewars is merely annoying, attempting to stifle legitimate competition by asserting bogus IP rights over ideas that are either too simple to be patentable and/or already in the public domain is completely unacceptable. If Randy continues along this path then he's no longer acting in our interests and I predict there will be a massive backlash. |
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