[ASLML] RE: Sharking

[Chas Argent]

Wynn sayeth:

> How about play for the sheer joy of rolling dice and playing ASL?
> 
> One of my very few 'won't play again' characterstics is any sign of a lack
> of integrity in an opponent.  It'll be a sad, sad day when I have to even
> think about being somehow sharked, or demand to see HIP placement records,
> or demand a chi-squared test of my opponent's dice, or  ...  One of the
> great things that I have found about ASL is the implicit trust that one
must
> have in one's opponent, trust that is (almost?) invariably warranted.

Out of about 50 people I have ever played FTF (most of my playing is done
VASL PBeM or "Live") there are exactly 3 I will never play again. Only one
was, as far as I could tell, actually trying to cheat. But it may be that he
just didn't know the rules well and was pretending he did. Regardless, he
was a punk about it.

The other two were just a**holes and had a particularly (at least this is
what I would call it) "unfriendly" playing style. There is no need to ever
play such people again.

I like competitive, but I like fun-friendly competitive. We can get cranky
over bad dice and intense over the ups & downs, or whatever. But I refuse to
lose sight of that goal.

I will always go into ever match with an unknown player with an open mind
about them, because I simply don't have any desire to play any way other
than what Wynn is describing, and I ain't gonna worry about being sharked. 

-Chas "Pushover" Argent

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Chas Argent
sidirezegh at charter.net
Medford, Oregon, USA