Well most people skip the tutorials and the books because they don't want to spend the time reading it all.
Like the above posts


I have trained my dad to point out and make fun of stupid things like these.  When we were buying groceries, he saw Mitch and said hey look, its a real programmer.

Quote from: DJ_O on May 24, 2012, 01:51:00 pm

System of a Down

I love System, but jesus. No one on my school but my friends who like the same music as me do.
Even one of the girls who love "metal" (The stuff that's really not metal, like BFMV) didn't know who they were.

Yeah I mean how most people I knew IRL that liked them only liked that band, and for them, everything else sucked.

Also CMG I noticed the video game tutorials part. I even noticed some games force you to do the tutorial, even if you read the instruction manual. That said, I kinda like how they add difficulty modes more often now, so the causal gamers who just wants to go through an RPG story can still do it, while the hardcore gamers can challenge the hardest modes and get more achievements, but in some game cases, when the readme came with the game and I was unsure how it might be played, I prefered to read the readme and skip tutorials if I could.

What I hated the most, however, was how in the '80s and '90s, most japanese games would not be released in USA because Japan thought we were n00bs at gaming, so they only released games they thought that would be easy enough for us.

Another thing that is common in the calculator world is how a bunch of people used to ask how do they install a certain calculator game, yet everything is explained inside the readme. Back when I got many ROL3 emails I eventually ignored those, because they were overwhelming.

Also I don't think it's abnormal for a person to not be tech-savy. If the person knows how to write a text in Word or notepad, learn to use at least IE and some Google without too much hassle, I think it's just fine. Not everyone has to know how to write an entire clone of Starcraft II in x86 assembly or how to hack NATO's computers to live in today's world, and with all the weird crap that comes out on the Internet (such as viruses), it's obvious most people might get infected at one point. It's their job, however, to be careful next time, though.

That said we need to remain respectful to people who gotta start somewhere, though. Also while it's easy for some people to do some stuff, it's harder for others to learn how to do it. Eg, learning z80 assembly back in 2004-05 in my case, which I tried 3 times, to no avail. I could program TI-BASIC, but it seemed past a certain level, I wouldn't get it anymore despite reading tutorials. Same goes for FL Studio and other DAW's (although I didn't mind Sony ACID as much), which eventually made me stick to MTVMG1.

I mean, we have to remember that everyone is different and I would absolutely dislike if on this forums, when someone new came and asked a rather simple question, people just called him names and tried to do everything to make him leave (actually such behavior here usually led to an instant permban before). This happened on some other calculator forums in the past and I'm pretty sure that if it did here too, the TI community would no longer exist today or if it did, it would never have recovered from the 2008 lull. In fact, in the past, many people migrated to Omni due to unpoliteness and narrow-mindedness on other forums and this is exactly the same reason why a lot of TIMGUL users never wanted to post on other music forums back in 2008.

AH yeah I rememebr when you mentionned about those elitists. In the RPG Maker community, if your game contained one single pre-made tile or sprite bundled with the software, you were screwed. In the music community, if you were caught using MTVMG they said it was a toy and they bashed your music even if it was better than theirs. I also remember back when any calculator program would be bashed if it was not written in ASM. Thankfully the latter doesn't happen much anymore. But yeah I just dislike if people are narrow-minded in general.

Heres the dummest thing Ive heard

Quote from:  My brother

how do  I turn the computer on?

How I turn the calc on?

Not asked/said but seen:
About a third of the teachers at my school have "smartboards".
It has this calibration thing where you touch 9 dots, one after the other, so the board knows where to tell the computer where the finger/whatever touching it is.

Some of the students pretty much touch the dots at random, often about a foot off.  Then they wonder why it's not working.

Oh yes now I remember one too:

My english teacher who didnt know how a smartboard works, asked this:

All right. If I take this marker (was a smartboard one), can I still erase it then?

I once had a kid ask me if I could make him a paintball game that took place in our school. I said sure, it'll take me about a week to get a beta version to see how they like it. He asked me why it would take so long to make a beta, and then he asked if I could have it completely finished by the next day. I said there's no way I could have it finished tomorrow and that programming was hard and took time...etc. So I then asked him what he thought programming was. Here's what he thought it was: He thought you went to a website, typed in the title of the game and what kind of game it was and you clicked a button. And poof there it was.

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

I once had a kid ask me if I could make him a paintball game that took place in our school. I said sure, it'll take me about a week to get a beta version to see how they like it. He asked me why it would take so long to make a beta, and then he asked if I could have it completely finished by the next day. I said there's no way I could have it finished tomorrow and that programming was hard and took time...etc. So I then asked him what he thought programming was. Here's what he thought it was: He thought you went to a website, typed in the title of the game and what kind of game it was and you clicked a button. And poof there it was.

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

I wish Axe Parser had a Crysis() axiom command