From: jecoleb@eos.ncsu.edu (have clue, will travel)
Subject: Re: Things I do when I'm bored.
Keywords: #include <flame-bait.h>
Reply-To: jecoleb@eos.ncsu.edu
Organization: The Ghost Of Christmas Past Society
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 21:51:42 GMT


esj@cs.brown.edu (Eugene Santos Jr.) writes:
>>[tales of how to hose your team and be entertainingly annoying deleted]
> This is what get's you called a *ahem* "dick" to say the least.
> If you ever try to do any of the one things above during a game
> where at least 50% of the players on your team WANT to play
> seriously, you are an undisputed bonafide *ahem* "dick".
> You are ruining someone elses fun, and they certainly do
> happen to be a majority in this situation. Think twice before
> doing this. 

Pot.  Kettle.  Black.  *bong!*

I don't agree with intentionally hosing your team, for whatever reason
(taking out a base and charging the enemy home planet for kicks, blowing
up your own team's armies, et al)-- but as far as anything else goes, 
if you don't like it, LEAVE or OGG ME INTO THE DIRT UNTIL *I* LEAVE,
if you can.

If I'm in the middle of a clue game on bronco (or what passes for one
these days--read as "my whole team reads messages" as a starting criteria), I'm
NOT going to be bored enough to pull the previously mentioned/other stunts.
That, my friend, is a serious game.

When Yea Boy!!! and EEK!!! and ryche and Spaceace! have all left and been
replaced by Ensigns clueless I, II, III and IV, respectively, and the next
ten minutes become a process of watching the planet-scum on each team trade
the same planet back and forth because about 50% are reading messages, that
is NOT a serious game, whether the other 50% are clueful or not.

If you think your game is serious, and teammates are goofing off, yell at
them.  Tell them what they should be doing.  Suggest a plan to the team.
Try to REGAIN their interest, cause a quick genocide, and have a Coke and
a smile.

If I can detect a HINT of an actual team on either side, it's a serious game.
Sadly, this rarely happens.

But, if it's deteriorated enough that I'm bored and no one's proposing 
anything better to do, I'll do whatever I damn well feel like, and LAUGH at
random bitching from your part.

I'm a heavyweight-level message scum, anyway... at times I throw out more
messages than torps in any one session.  I enjoy doing things like making
letters with phasers in 3rd space.  I pipe random music lyrics and quotes
to ->ALL at the slightest provocation.  And you know what?  I'm still a team
player.  When I'm needed, I get the job done and only THEN go back to this mode.

Somehow, though, your mere presence does not inherently mean that I'm needed.
If you (and those who consider those like myself a *ahem* dick) want my
attention, earn it.  If you were that good, and the game was that good, 
would I be that bored in the FIRST PLACE?

Randy Eugene Griffith <rg3c+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:

//This is great.  I have actually started getting hate mail from this
//message.  I love it.  To those geeks who sent me hate mail: I can't wait
//to play with you some time.  Hopefully you'll be on my team too, so I
//can bug the hell out of you.

MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

Flame me, too.  Send me LOTS of mail.  My quota's looked low lately.

> And if this doesn't bother you the least bit,
> I suggest "one of the following options".... 1) curl back tongue and
> swallow, 2) play with detonator caps, 3) clean loaded shot gun,
> 4) dive in pile of razor blades, 5) say "Hi" to Hannibal Lecter
> for me, and 6) grow up. Each of these options will certainly improve
> the general quality of human life.

Or, you could follow chi's suggestion, and
] SUCK BIG LONG THICK HARD JUICY DONKEY DICK

>Commander quiet (bigmax)

			---Commodore Video Sex Pope, NCSU
			---"I'm not an asshole... but I play one on TV"
				
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