I can't imagine...

[marks...@gmail.com]

I can't imagine what this group must have been like before I got here:

Bill Taylor: "I've been working on new ways to congratulate myself!
[guffaw]"

Other pontifacating fuck: "Me too! Great minds think alike!"

Bill Taylor: "You're working on new ways to congratulate me?"

Other pontificating fuck: "No, I'm working on new ways to congratulate
myself."

Bill Taylor: "Oh, of course. Great minds, yep. Uh, I gotta run..."

[Brian Tivol]

marks...@gmail.com writes:
> I can't imagine what this group must have been like before I got here:

It was pretty peaceful. People announced new games, some of which
generated discussion and some of which didn't. The was respectful
criticism, collaborative review, and very little dirty laundry aired
in public.

--brian

[Bill Taylor]

Brian Tivol <t1i...@m2it.e3du> wrote:

Yep, exactly so.

That was before potty-mouthed kindergarten refugees turned up here!

;-)

[marks...@gmail.com]

On Nov 16, 12:42 pm, Brian Tivol <t1i...@m2it.e3du> wrote:

> markste...@gmail.com writes:
> > I can't imagine what this group must have been like before I got here:
>

> People announced new games, some of which
> generated discussion and some of which didn't.

Of course. How could I forget? Unlimited Nim variants, unlimited MN
variants, and a real game once every ten years from Bill Taylor. The
elation must have been palpable.

> The was respectful
> criticism, collaborative review,

Review of what!? Yinsh??

-Mark

Mark Steere Games
http://www.marksteeregames.com/index.html

[marks...@gmail.com]

On Nov 16, 8:24 pm, Bill Taylor <w.tay...@math.canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:
> Brian Tivol <t1i...@m2it.e3du> wrote:
> > markste...@gmail.com writes:
> > > I can't imagine what this group must have been like before I got here:
>
> > It was pretty peaceful.

> Yep, exactly so.

lol

> That was before potty-mouthed kindergarten refugees turned up here!

Price of progress, Bill. Price of progress. :D

[Rich Hutnik]

I think it would be beneficial if people not be so critical, and just
like their own thing, and leave and be. We have a TON of stuff that
needs to be done to get the world to even remotely care about this
niche. Can we get going in that direction and just chill a bit?

One thing that may be useful is to have a "Game Night" on the Internet
every week where abstract strategy fans can show up and play one
another, and we work to get more people out to play.

- Rich

[Rich Hutnik]

On Nov 16, 11:24 pm, Bill Taylor <w.tay...@math.canterbury.ac.nz>
wrote:

I blame you for coming up with the name IAGO for IAGO :-P

With a name like that, one is setting oneself up for downright evil I
tell you Bill :-)

- Rich

[marks...@gmail.com]

Rich, I'm not directing this at you, but can everyone stop kissing
Bill Taylor's fat gross ass? He invented two interesting abstract
games in his life and he leveraged that into decades of lording over
rec.games.abstract. Enough already. I've finally succeeded in ousting
the overgrown crumb eater and I don't want to hear the residual
echo of lip-ass suction.

-Mark

Mark Steere Games
http://marksteeregames.com