Re: Re: WM02FINL Game End Proposal

"mczet" <[email protected]> Thu, 6 Jan 2005 14:01:00 -0600
Newsgroups gmane.games.diplomacy.worldmasters.chat.wm2002
Message-ID <007401c4f42a$71a92210$6900a8c0@ACCOUNTING>
Shaaaaadup and get back in your beach chair. All that fun and sun is
starting to turn your brain into mush. Your not allowed to have fun on a
beautiful tropical island while we're freezing our butts of in a foot of
snow in Wisconsin. Oh, and Julio says you owe him a round.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Egbert Ferreira" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, January 06, 2005 1:52 PM
Subject: Re: [wm02-chat] Re: WM02FINL Game End Proposal


>
> Julio is DEFINITELY the most sucessful dip-recruiting of all history! ;-)
> Luiz Bayard recruited him!  The same Luiz Bayard that also recruited me
for
> WM99! :-)
>
> But putting him (Julio) on the team was a personal choice of mine! :-)
> I admit I am really proud of being his captain! ;-))
>
> Goooo Julio! :-)
>
> [ ]´s
> Egg
> ER´s captain
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> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "mczet" <[email protected]>
> To: <[email protected]>
> Sent: Thursday, January 06, 2005 2:02 PM
> Subject: Re: [wm02-chat] Re: WM02FINL Game End Proposal
>
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> >
> > 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 ----- 
> > From: <[email protected]>
> > 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
> >>
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