I'd have actually sent you parts made of popsicle sticks, but not as the finished products. Instead, I'd be asking "Ok, this is some serious shit. To be sure, you want something like this right? Something that functions along these rough lines correct?"
Your answer would then inform my truly "serious" efforts on that front. You'd tell me that yes, you want a functional 100mm lens and while a 5mm lens is somehow related you cannot just copy and paste that shit because of all the other variables it affects.
I'd have actually gotten that and presented that to you regardless as a subtle shit test. I know you can't do that as that's the equivalent of trusting a machine translation of a text to outdo the work of an honest, dedicated, and skilled localizer/translator.
As for me, if you chastised me for insulting your intelligence I'd go with your company as a matter of principle no matter what your competitors offered (so long as you passed first BTW). You're not an idiot. You get how serious this is and you're not an intellectual inferior. You have thus earned my respect and also the full efforts of my intellect thereby. ILI's, healthy and well-adjusted ones anyway, respect those who withstand and pass our intellectual games/gambits.
You wanted a 100mm lens eh? Now, now you'll get the best one you could ever hope to field. I guarantee it on my honor
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