Re: Re: WM02FINL Game End Proposal

"mczet" <[email protected]> Thu, 6 Jan 2005 10:02:46 -0600
Newsgroups gmane.games.diplomacy.worldmasters.chat.wm2002
Message-ID <00ae01c4f409$29773de0$6900a8c0@ACCOUNTING>
Hell, we don't care what the context is. We're just going hop up and down
and hoot and holler shouting 'wimpy, wimpy, wimpy!' Its
our.....ummmm.....idiom.

On the other hand, at least I'd be able to say that the only game I lost in
the WM02 was to the guy who won the whole thing. So, with that in mind.
Goooooooo Julio!!!!



----- Original Message ----- 
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To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, January 06, 2005 5:01 AM
Subject: [wm02-chat] Re: WM02FINL Game End Proposal


> >>Somebody wants to throw in the towel in a *final* in  1903?
> >>What wimps. :-)
>
> I am always struck by the bravado of people who are not playing is a  game
to
> think they know enough to comment.  Speaking as someone actually in  the
game
> (and who did not propose the end-vote), the end-of-game proposal makes
> perfect sense in the context of the game.
>
> Even though the game is only 6 turns old, I have literally hundreds of
> emails from this game to provide a broader context.  I'm sure most  other
players
> do too, totaling over 1000 emails most likely.  To think  you understand
the
> internals of the game by reading a call for an end vote is  like looking
at a
> still shot from a movie and saying you know the plot.
>
> However, as the game is still going on, it would be silly for me to
explain
> all the reasons here.
>
> --Bruce
>   The near-death Germany
>
>