Followup to "1 on 1 game any takers?" by Larry McCarthy

[Matthias]

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Hi all,

I just wanted to rub it in a bit:

I had two games against Larry after his challenge, first one was X-Tal
versus Bots. Larry had first pick and chose Bots. At turn 15, when 4
Cats Paws and 1 Automa were out of fuel, he surrendered.

The second game was Birds versus Fascists, I had first pick and grabbed
Birds. In turn 16 (or 17?) two Darkwings arrived on the Fascist
Homeworld and killed some 99 % of all Fascists living in the Echo
Cluster, after that he gave up (and asked if we were using Sphere,
because those Darkwings "had appeared from nowhere"...).

Matthias

 

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oooh matthias,
you're my hero.

Matthias wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I just wanted to rub it in a bit:
>
> I had two games against Larry after his challenge, first one was X-Tal
> versus Bots. Larry had first pick and chose Bots. At turn 15, when 4
> Cats Paws and 1 Automa were out of fuel, he surrendered.
>
> The second game was Birds versus Fascists, I had first pick and grabbed
> Birds. In turn 16 (or 17?) two Darkwings arrived on the Fascist
> Homeworld and killed some 99 % of all Fascists living in the Echo
> Cluster, after that he gave up (and asked if we were using Sphere,
> because those Darkwings "had appeared from nowhere"...).
>
> Matthias

 

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Matthias schrieb:
> Hi all,

Maybe you should devote some minutes to reading the netiquette regarding names
in Headlines. Or do you just want to be shunned in future games because you
are such a childish player and winner?

Krischan

 

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Christian Georg Becker wrote:
> Maybe you should devote some minutes to reading the netiquette regarding names
> in Headlines.

Oh, come on. If you look at the posts Matthias is referring to, you'll
notice that Larry put himself into the Subject line. And why not allow a
bit of schadenfreude after a glorious victory?


Stefan

 

[Matthias]

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Christian Georg Becker wrote:

>
> Maybe you should devote some minutes to reading the netiquette regarding names
> in Headlines. Or do you just want to be shunned in future games because you
> are such a childish player and winner?

To tell you the truth, I am just trying to provoke Larry to pick up our
third game again .

And I dont think anyone in here apart from the occasional german
Blockwart is going to complain.

Matthias

 

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Matthias schrieb:
> Christian Georg Becker wrote:
>
>>
>> Maybe you should devote some minutes to reading the netiquette
>> regarding names
>> in Headlines. Or do you just want to be shunned in future games
>> because you
>> are such a childish player and winner?
>
> To tell you the truth, I am just trying to provoke Larry to pick up our
> third game again .

And you think going ona public place and shouting "XYZ is a looser." you can
convince somebody that playing with you is fun?

> And I dont think anyone in here apart from the occasional german
> Blockwart is going to complain.

And this kind of escalation in what you probably might call friendly banter is
the reason I won't play ever with you again and don't recommend playing with
you to others. In public too.
You are an excellent player, this I saw. But you spoil(ed) the game with your
attitude.

Krischan

 

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"Donovan" <spamfordonovan@xs4all.nl> wrote in message
news:iu94d190uik2a1sfci8h18k4iffu82upol@4ax.com...
> On Mon, 11 Jul 2005 00:17:27 +0200, Christian Georg Becker
> <cbecker@informatik.hu-berlin.de> wrote:
>
>
>>And you think going ona public place and shouting "XYZ is a looser." you
>>can
>>convince somebody that playing with you is fun?
>
> Well it does kind of make you want to play and kick Matthias' ass,
> just to be able to call him a loser in this newsgroup ;-)
>
>>> And I dont think anyone in here apart from the occasional german
>>> Blockwart is going to complain.
>>
>>And this kind of escalation in what you probably might call friendly
>>banter is
>>the reason I won't play ever with you again and don't recommend playing
>>with
>>you to others. In public too.
>>You are an excellent player, this I saw. But you spoil(ed) the game with
>>your
>>attitude.

<snipped>

> Back in the day (cough), we used to make fun of our opponents on Lord
> Firefall's on-site messageboard. We's basically report on any and
> every ship that we got our greedy hands on, along with some 'wow this
> is really easy' and 'I thought it would be more of a challenge'
> chatter.
>
> Anyway, if you don't want to be called a loser, don't be one.
> --
> Donovan

I agree with you Donovan!

Back in the day we used to make fun of everyone on IRC

Good playing Matthias

--

Regards,
Merlyn

 

[Donovan]

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On Mon, 11 Jul 2005 12:21:28 +0200, Christian Georg Becker
<cbecker@informatik.hu-berlin.de> wrote:

>There is a difference between making fun/playing a role and breaking the
>etiquette and just being rude. Basically being rude is what I accuse Matthias of.

Must be me then, because I absolutely fail to see any rudeness in his
original post. He just reports on the outcome of two games, never does
he even mention his opinion of the other guy.
--
Donovan
http://www.xs4all.nl/~donovan

 

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> You are an excellent player, this I saw. But you spoil(ed) the game with
your
> attitude.

Nah.. Matthias is a lousy player, but it's fun to play with him because of
his attitude ;-)

Harry

 

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Donovan wrote:
> On Mon, 11 Jul 2005 12:21:28 +0200, Christian Georg Becker
>>There is a difference between making fun/playing a role and breaking the
>>etiquette and just being rude. Basically being rude is what I accuse Matthias of.
>
> Must be me then, because I absolutely fail to see any rudeness in his
> original post.

Same here.

Apart from that, Larry's original posts *asked* for a result like this
one. He challenged the whole newsgroup. So, in case Matthias tells the
truth (I currently see no evidence to doubt), this post was, well, a
nice anecdote


Stefan