Poppi - you forgot to turn on your sarcasm decoder.

What I meant was the opposite of what I said - that is sarcasm. I was taking the other people's position and expanding it until it was ridiculous. My assertion that those who do not write real shaders makes them less manly was based on the ridiculous proposition that I like to write shaders so anyone who doesn't is a noob.

This is based on the expansion of the position I heard over there, which is basically if you don't model your objects yourself, you're a noob.

Of course there are people who don't just slap a texture on, but even if they do, that's not an indictment against their artistry.

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