| Egads GROSS is winning! Aggg! I shall double my efforts and give 200%! Is that possible? or should I say 150%? Is that double? Or is 100% all I can give . . . mmmm, now I'm confussed and I think I feel a migrain comming on, mabye even an Anyerism Alternatively if I double my efforts and thats 100% it can only mean I was giving 50% befor and an therefor a 'slacker'! . . . I apologize therefor for my laziness! I can relate to PontiusBruinPilot mentality, people say I aslo lack a degree of 'tact' . . . hehe. He can (from what I've seen) be quite charming when it suites though . . . |
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Actually my behavior is not dictated by what suits. It is not dictated by what I think others will think about it. It is dictated by what I think is right, and what I think is the truth. Some, have a problem with that.
You're far from a slacker. I encourage people to play when they want and how much they want. How can you be a slacker at a game? I would think those of us who play more are the real slackers. Not that being a slacker from time to time is a bad thing.
          
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Ahhh Quack. It's senseless. He's not gonna change. I'm wasting my fingers. Is that chill pie with Strawberries? I think I'll have a piece.
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Oooooo-kay...
BlueSteel: Nothing about you or ANZAC here in the past 50 posts. Paranoid? 
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Pontius: If you've got a problem with Ray expressing his opinion on scoring, or anything else for that matter, that's your business. I'm just asking you to tone down the name calling and inciting. Even if you think Ray is a "whiner and crybaby" or that he makes suggestions that are "totally lame", please either keep them to yourself or try to put it a different way. I try not to flame anybody on this board, and I would like to see others be as respectful.
We've had some fun having conversations, Pontius. I don't want to get anybody mad, so please take what I'm telling you as helpful. It's better for all of us if we stay away from the flames.
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Quack: I need some of those chill pills for my boss here in RL. 
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Now, back to our regularly scheduled (and fun) conversations. The preceding "Reality TV" segment was a signal beamed to us from the Yor and should be considered an act of war.
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Hey, what are some creative things to do to the Yor? I despise them with a passion that is neverending, and am always looking for new and fun ways to dismantle them or convert them to humiliating objects.
 
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EGADS!!
Has anybody looked at Richard Heaton's score submissions?? He's almost the machine EBZ is, except he plays Large galaxies (and it looks like he's moving into Huge!)
EEK!!
Just looked at Wombie's, too!! Holy crap, how do you guys do anything but play GC??!!
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And we won't even get into Chiacow!!
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Theoden - I'm on annual leave at the moment, so the output wont last! I have taken Ray's original statement: "the Metaverse is about commitment, not skill" to heart. The 'crankin' style allows those less talented to support their team by just sweating out results. Richard is excellent, though - I just had to try and pip him, even though it's only for a short time!
  
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As I said earlier, I regret entering into the discussion with Pontius which I hoped he would be interested to discuss reasonably and logically.
However, he has once again decided to indulge in immature name-calling behaviour having not been able to back up his arguments and statements.
So I've stopped reading his posts already. As he himself put it succinctly in the GROSS thread, children are dying outside. We are all here to have fun and not to behave in immature behaviour best suited for a school playground.
 
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I'm wondering IceMole. If a person stops submitting and leaves the game, shouldn't his scores degrade somehow rather than maintain at that level?
Or do we wait for the massive metaverse-wide recalc?
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What is the word for this? Oxymoron? 
BTW, I believe Oxymoron means "A rhetorical figure in which incongruous or contradictory terms are combined, as in a deafening silence and a mournful optimist."
Don't want anyone to think I'm insulting Cotal.
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| Dang Ray. You tryin' to reach 200k by next Thursday? That's just sick. Sick sick sick |
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Alright Kit, tell me now.
How many 25k games does it take for me to reach 200k?
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I have no problem with that. And for you to characterize this as that is totally wrong.
Just 3 rules for getting along with me: 1. Don't be a hypocrite. 2. Don't tell me something that I know and you know isn't true just for the sake of saving face or arguing.
3. Don't be arrogant.
Sorry but I cannot respect those things. And I don't think it's "disrespectful" as you put it, to call someone out on it.
Of course, if it won't do any good and I've just given up on someone's character, I just won't associate with them any more. I'm to that point in this case. No need for me to bother anymore.
That's not to say that you and I can't Jaw sometimes theoden. I Have no problem with that. There is no guilt by association in my book. 
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| Anyway my point is this, should losses mabye score a little higher. I mean these days the most exciting games I have are close losses. It seems a shame that they generally score about 2 to 5% of that you might expect for a win (my second last game being an unusual exception). This is a point of discussion and happy debate not a real request, you know a hypothetical kinda banter . . . Last time I raised this topic I recall someone said . . . 'A LOSS IS A LOSS A WIN IS A WIN' and winner takes all! I had to smile at that . . . |
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Good point. I don't buy the argument a win is a win and a loss is a loss. If that were true wins should score a set value and losses would score zero. And the metaverse would be boring as heck. This would be particularly true if the puter gets tech win comes out. for example, when that change occurs, A loss where you barely got beat to final fontier just before you smacked the last puter planet probably should score fairly close to say a win where you hid in the corner and barely beat the puter to final frontier I would think. But I dream....
I really don't have that strong an opinion either way. I can see the merits of both sides.
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People, just ignore/skip Pontius' posts like I do.
He baiting me to go down to his level and he is not going to succeed. I'll rather walk away every time than engage in this meaningless talk.
Cotal, your post is cute.
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Kit, if you are going to take up the challenge of computing my targets for 200k, assume that I submit a 25k game every 3 days from my last submission.
I know I'm a sucker for punishment.
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