Ah yes, the good ol chicken and the egg paradox. The way you've acted since and during our little ventrilo play dates is the reason for my changed attitude. It's a cause and effect relationship. And do not worry, I will not be coming back.
Some food for thought:
The last time we dueled, you convinced me to come in there with you, even though I told you I was rusty and wasn't really in the mood for intense fighting. You seemed to really want to go at it though, OK, so we dueled a few k4s (I think I won) and then we dueled some ungodly number of spit16 fights. You wiped the floor with me, something like 15-5 or who knows what it was. I was trying all sorts of goofy merges, ripping my wings off, shooting like a 2 week newb, and basically flying like one! I didn't mind though, I was having fun, flying in your plane, a plane I never fly, never will fly, and was just mixing it up. Of course, after the fact, when I hear that you were gloating like a high school teenage girl about how bad you owned me, I realized it was never about fun. So, apparently I cannot let my guard down when fighting against you guys. On my end, I might be just mixing it up, trying new things, having fun, but on your end, you are tallying grizz scalps while building a case for your own uberness. I didn't notice at the time, but I should have known it was not for fun when, after you pulled an admittedly awesome reverse snapshot on me in one of the spit16 rounds, you screamed on ventrilo about how awesome you are or something to that effect. At the time I let it go, but it really all makes sense now.
I conviced you to come in with me? It's a trap! I asked you, very politely I might add. You did indeed reply with something along the lines of "I'm rusty and not really in the mood for intense fighting." I said something along the lines of "OK, another time maybe?". Low and behold you PM me a few miniutes later and asked if I would still like to duel.
To cut a long story short, we both flew like noobs. I had been away from the game for 3 months playing poker and came back to a spikey stick, you were rusty and missed to many kill shots to count.
I call total BS on your play for fun philosophy. You told me yourself, many times infact: "I'm a super competitive person and play to win." So there goes that excuse out the window.
Yes I pulled an awesome reversal-snapshot on you, yes the fact that I was able to pull such a move against the one many claim to be the very "best" stick in game made me W00T, I'm sorry about showing some excitement. I'm surprised that you didn't call me out on it sooner though: "at the time I let it go". If you W00Ted after killing me I would have had words because after all duels shouldn't be for fun!
No, I didn't "gloat like a high school teenage girl afterwards". Infact I praised your ability, I'll quote a post which I made in The Few's private forum after our session:
Grizz claims top spot because he's simply mothodical in what he does, I'm always guessing what to do next while he's thinking 2 steps ahead of me.
I'm going to leave this thread be. How sad must I be to argue about watermelon to do with a computer game.
