I used to imagine that WC Fan Projects held themselves to a higherlevel of excellancy,
Why did you imagine this? 90% of Fan Projects are just stream of conciousness 'wouldn't it be neat if...'s that happen to be mailed to
news@wcnews.com. If you're simply referring to the 'real' fan projects (the ones that actually materialize - UE, Standoff, etc.) then I still completely fail to see your point - by their very nature they are *not* bound by the Wing Commander canon... since they're telling non-canon stories. UE blew up the Intrepid and gave the Union Bengal carriers (AFAIK) - that's certainly not canon... but it's necessary to expand on what is stated in order to tell a *fan* story.
To complain about the class names for the CVEs is even crazier - since that's not even technically a contradiction. Having a name for the CVEs is necessary to make the games ship database look 'real' - and in my book, they did a heck of a
good job by picking one of the five options that's a reasonable possible choice for the name.
instead, just like fan sites who can't find a name, they simply pick a name of the class and slap it on there for lack of any concrete, to be better then the fan sites they're imitating, simply by using a differant name.
Eder doesn't have any concrete? As a native English speaker, I'm completely at a loss with regards to the meaning of this sentence (?). How do fan sites play into any of this?
Frankly, I don't understand why you see it necessary to debase me by calling me a jackass, and discounting my opinion simply because I am a "non-member" of this place.
Your opinions have circulated amoung your elitist group so tightly for so long that they need some re-interpretation from objective sources, as opposed to from each of you, who have heard them all so many times you simply accept the things people say as being factual simply because the person saying them has many many many posts.
See, here's your problem. Eder doesn't like you because you're being an asshole to him - not because he's part of a secret group that's out to get you.
(No, I'm not discounting the existence of cliques - I'm certainly in one... but our most terrible power is the ability to grill a good burger, and we certainly don't sit around plotting doom for a CZ Poster of the Day. The lesson here is simple: get over yourself.)
(You know what else? My closest friends, WC-wise, are people who I've met because we've disagreed - they're people I've debated WC with. There's not a huge collective of people who agree with eachother. Chris Reid and I have been pals since we were at each others throats over what year WCIV took place (in 1996, it was less clear)...)
If your reply had been "I think you're wrong - it's not Wake class because", we'd all have taken you seriously... instead of whatever childish rant about how everyone but you was stupid because they didn't appreciate history or somesuch.
I would submit that I am not the jackass for challenging an unsupport opinion, but that you are the jackasses for accepting it.
You're not a jackass because you challeneged {Eder's} opinions - you're a jackass because of the *way* you challenged his opinion.