Thesmartass.info was founded by a great man (James Lyngaas) on January 10th 2001. It was started as a personal start page that had a Google search engine and a bunch of high quality links on it (and a background picture of a hot nurse holding a stethoscope to a computer).

A friend said, hey cool page… If you add this link to the page I will make it my homepage too… and so on and so forth.

The only real purpose for the site was to be helpful to me. So I kept adding things that interested me like random artwork and random quotes to keep showing up at my own page interesting… I had previously run a couple popular website called animeden.com and animesins.com (don’t bother looking for them now, I stopped paying for them so whatever is there now is shit) and decided to just expand my site to add anything else that could keep me interested and figured if other people liked it too then good deal.

To be honest with you though, I still do not make it for other people. So if I design something that somebody doesn’t understand then it’s their job to figure out how to use it. I mean I get 3 questions a day asking me what the controls for the video games are or if they can use a controller, but all that info is in bright colors at the top of the same menu they managed to figure out how to load games on… So I just can’t feel empathetic to their plight.

What I will do though is [no not right now, in a couple months... yes a couple months, it's a realistic time frame] make a help section and have screenshots with every single section and big ass arrows pointing to all the fancy bits as well as text instructions on the screen as to how to do some of the advanced things, or the functionality that I have hidden from virtually everybody but still exists.

Then I can feel even less empathetic towards the problems people having using the site since there will be a bloody tutorial w/screenshots for every single page.

Forgive my assholedness for I know not who I offend.