Author: Tina Long
Date: 20:11:41 03/23/00
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On March 23, 2000 at 16:40:11, José de Jesús García Ruvalcaba wrote: >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. At about 1:00 in the morning of the 4th game!!!! > >>and then she complained about it. No she didn't, she refused to use the phone. Later she defended her actions. It's only us here who are complaining about it. In the words of Eric Cartman, "Super >>weak." >> >>-Tom I use memory keys to recall names here in CCC, I've just changed my image of you to young Eric, it's easier, my previous image was getting too complicated. Tina Long
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