He's a tyrant. You haven't seen him in our S.A.P.P meetings. You should hear how he yells and berates us for not doing our jobs properly. Do you know why Mensa has a lazy eye? CorkyJr slapped him around one night, knocked that eye kilter for not hitting the VH with torpedos like he was ordered to. I virtually wet my pants everytime Corky says my name and have a nervous tick from the last beating he gave me when I didn't join on a 25v1 against a lone C-47. How do you think Shuffler got his handle? It's because Corky caned him in the shins one night for not making the Top #5, poor guy has shuffled ever since. We'd all leave but we're scared of him, even our Grand Exhalted Ruler treds lightly around Corky. Play for fun? The only fun he has is when he beats us.
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In other news, perusing this thread off and on over the last couple days one thing has become apparent to me, I think the wrong question was asked. To me the obvious answer is that everyone plays for fun, the real question is how do you define fun within the context of AH. There's teh crux of the discussion, furballers would jump in and say something about they have fun playing cartoon fighter pilots till a lousy timid cherry picker, alt monkey, armchair general comes along and burns their fighter hangars to the ground. The strat guys would counter by saying the point of the game is to coordinate and play as a team and the furballing is a waste of country resources, it's "mindless" and all the furballers should just leave because they're getting in the way of the "real objective".
Awhile back Field Marshal Dan/Corky/Guppy in a rare moment of lucidity had some interesting ideas on changing the base layout and tweaking the MA style of gameplay that would encourage both parts of the game. Trying to bring together the two opposing gameplay styles is a more interesting discussion IMHO (although we know how little that matters).
