Author: José de Jesús García Ruvalcaba
Date: 13:40:11 03/23/00
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On March 23, 2000 at 13:44:48, Tom Kerrigan wrote: >On March 23, 2000 at 12:18:13, Roger wrote: > >>You asked how using the phone could mess the situation up anymore than it was. >> >>I think that's exactly the point, Tom. The situation was already messed up >>beyond anyone's ability to see how it could be messed up any more. Leaving the >>net for the phone was "the last straw," so to speak, and opened her up to being >>forced to participate in a new set of problems (see Tina's post below). >> >>She could choose to embrace the new problems, or not...She chose not. I don't >>blame her at all. >> >>Roger > >Yes, but it was messed up exactly because they were not using the phone. All of >the problems that she complains about could arguably have been solved if they >switched to the phone early in the match. Exactly. The word 'early' is key here. >The phone is really the silver bullet >in this situation. > >After they started messing around with the time controls, I think the match was >a joke and nothing would have changed that. But if they had switched to the >phone early on, all of that would have been avoided. > >If you're presented with two options, one of which is known to work great, and >the other quite clearly sucks, which would you choose? Xie chose the option that >sucks, But when was given she the choice? From what I can read, it was when the fourth game was stuck, not 'early' in the match. José. >and then she complained about it. In the words of Eric Cartman, "Super >weak." > >-Tom
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