I think I now understand Cohen

[The Panther]

archaeolept said:
yes. threatening to throw a game is a common tactic amongst children and bad players everywhere

Let he who is without sin cast the first stone.

I only flame those deemed worthy (with myself as the sole judge on this). At least I have never resorted to name calling like the above post, for I like to be far more subtle than that!

I do find it sad that arch's inflamatory Posts have driven off an excellent MP player. My counsel to Zapmeister is to ignore the ravings of arch. There are plenty of decent people in this game, you just have to find them and avoid the ones who aren't pleasant.

I am glad to see that arch's knee-jerk reaction did not drive LintMan away too. As for LintMan, I would suggest sticking your toe into the MP world on Mose Hansen. It is entertaining and not all that time consuming with most games being set at a turn every 1 or 2 days. And you should find a newbie game on there at some point in the very near future.

[archaeolept]

"At least I have never resorted to name calling like the above post"

Firstly, my statement as stands is correct. It does not itself call any names, but merely asserts the fact that "threatening to throw a game" is a common tactic amongst children and bad players. do you deny it is a common tactic, or that it is the sort of thing children or sore losers do?

Secondly, it is clear that you yourself have been resorting to insults. here are a few:

"Arch, do you understand English very well?"

Actually, there would be little doubt that I understand English rather better than you do, as far as that goes. It is not especially relevant, however. and:

"What exactly are you smoking anyway?"

which is a classic ad hominem.

"ravings" - another nice little bit of implicit name-calling on your part


As well,
"Tell me one single thing in the above post which is childish and immature."

[referring to lintman's post] - I never claimed that lintman's suggestions were themselves childish and immature - those adjectives were restricted to Zapmeister's threat to throw the game to his opponent. Obviously you seem fine w/ such tactics. My problem w/ lintman's suggestions as to going kamikaze were that these could reinforce Zap's already evident tendencies towards this.

Now, you may consider zap's propensity to quit from committments and immediate resort to threats of throwing a game as indicative of being an "excellent player." I would only suggest that this shows more about what you consider good than it shows about anything else...

" do find it sad that arch's inflamatory Posts have driven off an excellent MP player. "

lolz++ This is a classic bit of historical revisionism. In case you didn't notice, Zapmeister had already said he wanted to abandon the game, a la cohen, before any of my so-called "inflamatory" Posts. Cart before the horse?
Obviously, the original "inflamation" was Zapmeisters prediliction to threats of game-throwing. Then his whining about not being able to deal w/ Storm's handful of Van's and one Air Queen. Then his wanting to give up and go home because he was receiving the same sort of pummeling he had previously been dishing out to Arcos and Marignon.