Capt Jack and the China Syndrome

[RolloTheGreat]

That gif should be RussianSensation's avatar over at VC&G.  He could share it with Creig and a few others......

Whatever happened to Ackmed by the way?  Did he come back under a different username.  He just left the forums (a fair while back now) and hasn't been seen since.  He was another ATi shill.

Ackmed was a family man from TN who was in the military. He was deployed to Iraq, and basically stopped posting.

My guess is when you start killing people and having people shoot at you, things like "AMD has 3% cleaner AF in game X" or "Nvidia's AA blurs 35 degree angled lines in game Y" become very, very trivial.

Much as I detested Ackmed back then, I hope he made it back to his family OK.  :(

Ackmed once complained to Kyle at H that I was disparaging his mountain roots when I posted that ATi's CF dongle looked like something from a hillbilly HS science fair. I was genuinely shocked, as I had no idea he was from rural mountain folk and was not thinking of him at all when I posted it, just rustic farm workarounds.

Creig was one weird, weird critter. He seemed to genuinely hate me and want to do me physical harm, which made me want to push his buttons all the more. I think I drove Creig to be an Advocate. He couldn't afford the parts he wanted and really hated losing the arguments to me, so he turned to the PR friends at AMD for help.

Apparently Ackmed is back in the USA if he did military duty and now has a young son.  He and the son like to console game.  I saw a post of his in the AT console forum a couple of days back.

When you think back on it, it starts to sound like most of AMD's forum warriors were young men who simply couldn't afford intel/nvidia.  Back then AMD was much cheaper and better value.   Times have since changed and of course as they age they start to earn more and a lot of them who aren't die hard supporters will simply abandon AMD over time.  AMD really only has a few "true" supporters and most of those would be like Dave Baumann - financially propped up by AMD (he is back at B3D now).

Ackmed and Creig were definitely Advocates, Creig probably still is.

I'm not exactly proud of me dealings with either of them, and hope they and their families are well and prosperous.