Re: Ergoth Attack on Annuin/Port Royal

R. W. Gabriel (silas75@hotmail.com)
Tue, 27 Jul 1999 11:06:23 GMT

->Well, Dickie,

Clever. Childish Mockery. Bravo! You might want to try subtle parody instead
of this drivel.

>And I do NOT mean to imply,

People don't have to purposely imply anything. It can be very unconscious.

>Let me get this correct..you are being objective when you criticise and I
>am being a fascist and play "not-so-subtle word games". Hmmm. Time
>for some more of those word games you do not like.

Criticism has nothing to do with objectivity. Criticism is analysis and
opinion. Word games are trying to slip things by people such as playing
dichotomy games.

>Democracy is when a group of players who mostly know each other
>personally meet regularly face-to-face to coordinate their orders;
>basically: play as a Team instead of as a bunch of individuals.
>They are rewarded for this. They know they can trust each other,
>and they win far more encounters than they lose. I suppose they
>must cast ballots at their meetings. Regardless, playing as a TEAM
>does seem to work well, doesn't it? I think so.

Actually I believe I equated democracy with tolerance and a lack of need to
play word games with politics to convince others of my "rightness" and
naother's "badness". The LOTC aren't the best democracy or the only. They
simply are more democratic than the musketeers.

>
>Fascism is when someone does not start out with a core group; makes an
>alliance out of total strangers [the majority of whom have never met
>previously in other games]; and tries to get everyone to play on the
>same "page". IE: out of total strangers, including people [well,
>so far, just one person] who plan to do naught but betray their fellow
>men, try to create a TEAM. Afterall, the Musketeers have repeatedly
>been shown the benefits of team play by the Lords. But when they do the
>same thing, they are fascists. Must be that revisionist history I
>keep hearing so much about.

I couldn't care less about history. I care about theory. Imperialism has
little to do with internal democracy. It seems you need to stop thinking in
wide, armspread generalizations.

->they may be questioning which one of thus they regret having let in
>the most...that's humor, btw, in case you misread it as "anger"...again.

No the anger part comes up whenever I post and your cheeseball retort is
that since I am not playing then I should go away. You sound like a toddler
when you say that.

>-

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