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Friendliest site on the Internet
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Tue, 24 Oct 2000 13:11:21 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Todd Lehman writes:
> > I don't believe it's a higher level anything, and to call it a meta-game
> > romanticizes it beyond the point of useful discussion.
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> I don't know what else to call it. Any suggestions?
I think it's adequate simply to call it a game, without any implication of
loftier motives. Otherwise, I would suggest (to recycle a phrase used
elsewhere) treemarking.
> Say, do you remember "Mandroid" in RTL about 4 years ago? I dug up a passage
> from archives tonight that he/she posted -- it went like this:
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> "While I empathize completely with you, surely you have been hanging
> around rec.toys.lego long enough to realize that the MAJOR FUNCTION of
> this group is the obnoxious pursuit of capitol gain."
Goodness! That takes me back--I had just started on RTL when that
unpleasantness began. Wasn't that thread like a zillion posts long and full
of bile?
> p.s. Did Mandroid ever tell anyone his real name?
I never saw it, though he might have dropped it in somewhere. I wonder
whatever became of him...
Dave!
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