From: kinsman@jupiter.sun.csd.unb.ca (Aphoriel/Kinsman)
Subject: Re: A Story of Revenge, or Missed Him By That () Much
Organization: University of New Brunswick
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 17:15:39 GMT

In article <C19zxy.JCA@news.cso.uiuc.edu> skillian@ux4.cso.uiuc.edu (Seth James Killian) writes:
>julius@cco.caltech.edu (julius yang) writes:
>
>	(boring battle sequence deleted)
>
>>This guy can't believe it!  My god, his torpedo method completely failed
>>to work!  What's a Bison to do?  More of the same, of course.  Heh heh.
>>Well, to make a long story short, in a perfect world, of course I 
>>eked it out again and squashed his Bison in the dirt, leaving him to
>>trudge off and ponder his errant ways.  Well, it didn't work out that
>>way--I missed a DP and wound up fiercing into a torpedo, and he killed me.
>>He seemed pretty proud, too, that he had done so valiant a deed.  Well,
>>like the net says, what can you do but walk away from Bisons like this.
>	  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>	The net said this?  Of what net are you speaking of?  This net?
>	God, I hope not.  What you CAN do (as opposed to walking away)
>	is to go back in there and kick his ass.  Ken has some excellent
>	ticks and you decided to take the moral highroad and get your
>	fanny whipped.  Not to say you must tick Bison to win (especially
>	against such an unimaginative opponent) but never accept defeat!
>
Beg pardon? The Net is just a collection of individuals.  Yes, It seems the
Net did say this; right here in this post. See? There it is "what can you do
but walk away from Bisons like this."  Someone's even nicely underlined it. :)

And I suspect, if he tried to go back in there in kick ass, he'd just be 
subjected to the Law of Diminishing Returns, and just fill that Bison player
with even more pride.  Wiser to just let Bison play alone and lose to the
computer...

>>So I stick around and watch him play computer Ryu and get trashed in
>>about a minute.  The moral victory is mine, I suppose.
>
>	This guy lost to the COMPUTER?  And you lost to him.  I see.
>	But I am curious?  Of what moral victory do you speak?  The
>	moral victory where you lost to an unskilled ticker?  Oh.

He's referring not precisely to a 'moral victory' but to the satisfaction that
Bison got thrashed by a rescuing computer player.  Call it 'justice' that after
being so cheap, the computer took care of him lickety-split, being able to 
handle cheapers.  And mind, the Computer can be tough.. you don't know what
difficulty level or whatnot the machine was set at.


>	Pardon my ignorance, of Avatar of selflessness.  What is the
>	moral to this story?  People who apply a completely arbitrary
>	set of morals to a videogame and feel selfrighteous about
>	losing, SHOULD COME PLAY AT UIUC!  I would love to engage in
>	a chivalrous and sporting bout of SF2 with you ole chap!  Maybe
>	you could have a good cry afterwards, and feel superior on some
>	mysterious higher plane of SF2 morality, but I'll be on the
>	machine, and you'll be at the back of the line...
>
>		Seth Killian
>

Why are you trying to turn a story into an argument?


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>>julius yang                      "Fill me with your little babies!"
>>julius@sandman.cco.caltech.edu        --"Peter's Friends", Kenneth Branagh
>>julius@iago.caltech.edu          

Aphoriel/Kinsman
Sean Givan

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