Duncan wrote:
Kumba <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted
below, on Mon, 11 Jun 2007 21:25:14 -0400:
It's competition, at the core. No one likes draws, ties, or even photo
finishes, let alone losing. They like to win, and win by a large
margin. If someone tries to slip the last word in to get them over that
virtual finish line, rest assured someone else is gonna fire off an even
more last word just to one up them, and when we're talking mere microts
from the finish line, sometimes the gloves come off.
Besides, it's not like a +2 Great Darkwood Crossbow of Acid is all
_that_ expensive. Probably a pain in the neck to load (and the kickback
has to hurt), but well it just means you need to level up some more :)
Wow, talk about mixed metaphors! Foot-racing > boxing > AD&D. You've
got gumption to try and pull /that/ off! =8^) I guess it works, tho, if
you don't try to stretch any of them beyond the limited area they were
applied to (which this sort of case begs... resist... resist... =8^) .
Metaphors tend to be my palette; sometimes I create art, and other times I
create things that make goatse look tame :P
(And yes, this'd go on the other list, if we had it.)
It's in Infra's hands now. They've got a bug filed, and so, I leave it up to
them.
Regardless on if it's created or not, this thread has made people think, I hope.
And maybe that's all we really need in the end, is for a few people to simply
stop and think.
I hope.
--Kumba
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Gentoo/MIPS Team Lead
"Such is oft the course of deeds that move the wheels of the world: small hands
do them because they must, while the eyes of the great are elsewhere." --Elrond
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