John, I find your remarks to be offensive and uncalled for.
In my entire time on this list you are the only person who goes out his way to
put down people on this list. I have enjoyed the collegiality of everyone here
in discussing matters both near and far to gaming. I think you owe everyone an
apology.
Tom Hughes
On Fri, 3 Jul 1998 08:40:20 -0500 (CDT) jatkins6@ix.netcom.com (John
> Atkinson) writes:
> You wrote:
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> everyone here in discussing matters both near and far to gaming. I
No deal. I will say that my comments have been interpreted as more harsh than
I intended them. I am steadily waiting for a reason to nuance either Stargrunt
or Dirtside to that level of granularity, when if you note the rules have
lumped all HVC ammo into one generic validity vs. vehicles and one vs.
infantry. After all, one assumes that the tank commanders are making rational
decisions on that issue.
I don't want to play a batallion-level game where I have to worry about
what loyal loader PFC Treadhead Snuffy (or autoloader serial number
228492030) has up the spout--that's an issue for platoon-level gaming,
and a platoon-level game the focuses on armored vehicles.
> In a message dated 98-07-03 22:36:56 EDT, Tom H writes:
<< >> The next is the HEAT round - High Explosive Anti-Tank which is a
> The 3rd and not mentioned is the HESH round - High Explosive Squash
> They're both anti-armor rounds with a secondary blast effect.
Um, maybe it's me, but I don't see the problem here. Is this the post that's
supposed to be offensive? John's always been stuck-up about being an
engineer:), and he's always been blunt about this sort of thing. Aside: he's
right, too. Penetration is modeled into the chit color system in DS2, and into
FP vs. Impact in SG2.
Noah
> You wrote:
> Just understand that, take it with a pinch of salt. Assume the best
I tend to write the words as I would say them in conversation, and you loose a
lot of the tone and facial expression that tends to indicate "Hey, I don't
take this that seriously and neither should you." If someone gets their
panties in a bunch over that, sorry. I'm not going
Hmm, I'll jump in for both sides here. (And rather like the UN, probably get
shot at by both).
John tends to speak right off the top of his head (don't say it's another
orifice, please;) He doesn't mean to be offensive, and has said as much
several times. He sometimes comes across as rude, patronising, condescending,
etc. (Well, you do John;)
Just understand that, take it with a pinch of salt. Assume the best rather
than the worst when he 'talks' here. A lot can be misinterpreted via an ascii
only medium.
Perhaps an extra line in his sig
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I'm not as offensive as I might seem;)
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Everyone, take a deep breath, kick the dog (OHNO, don't flame me over that!)
erm... cat... erm inanimate object.
Anyway.. you get the picture... life is too short, and cut down on the coffee.
> On 3 Jul 98 at 21:38, Thomas E Hughes wrote:
> John, I find your remarks to be offensive and uncalled for.
> >
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> At 10:04 PM 9/30/98 -0500, John Atkinson wrote:
Uh, John... before you start blowing folks away, (*JOKE*) you might want to
consider something...
First of all, you e-mail address is "jatkins6" and some e-mail software
packages automatically head up a quote with things like:
"At 10:04 PM 9/30/98 -0500, jatkins6 wrote:"
After a couple of rounds of attribution, or someone just giving your
e-mail
address a casual glance, this would be a very simple mistake to make.
Just a thought.
> At 10:04 PM 9/30/98 -0500, John Atkinson wrote:
You really want to piss him off? Say "Atkins", and pronounce it with a French
accent.
John, my list-comrade, if you don't have an 'S' on your end, you should
probably seek medical help...
Noah
[quoted original message omitted]
John,
There! You see?
One cannot always depend on folks to even get the FIRST name right!
*big grin*
JEFF
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> At 06:10 PM 10/1/98 -0500, Noah wrote:
^^^^
probably seek medical help...
> Noah
The line was set up so beautifully, I couldn't wait to deliver it. I rushed,
and slightly misfired. Close enough:)
Noah
[quoted original message omitted]
He has e-mailed me from Germany. He has arrived safely and is
designing Alarishi and Templar AFV's for me (or more accurately, he's
designing
panzers for Thyssen-Rheinmetall or someone, and Alarish will buy the
license). Doesn't look like he has any combat missions scheduled for the next
few months, although with Bill "I'm Having a Scandal, Let's Distract the
Media" Clinton in charge, I suppose that could change any time (my opinion,
although I doubt John would disagree on that).
Spoken like someone who hasn't been following the news....
Los
> Laserlight wrote:
> He has e-mailed me from Germany. He has arrived safely and is
Los spake thusly upon matters weighty:
Something tells me that sending a fully-loaded Atkinson into Kosovo
or Serbia or any of the other surrounding states would require presidential
authority similar to the release of nuclear weapons...
(grin).
Seriously, if anyone is corresponding with John, tell him to try hard not to
contribute to the mortality stats for engineers in hostile
regions.... :)
> Spoken like someone who hasn't been following the news....
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Don't worry about John, he is where he wants to be and doing what he wanted to
do....
Los
P.s. cleaning latrines...hahahaha
> Thomas Barclay wrote:
> Los spake thusly upon matters weighty:
> At 22.34 23/03/99 -0500, you wrote:
In a message dated 3/25/99 3:23:26 PM Pacific Standard Time,
edi@netgen.it writes:
<< > Doesn't look like he has any combat missions scheduled for the next few
> months, although with Bill "I'm Having a Scandal, Let's Distract the
Looks like he got "LUCKY" and they found him some! (combat missions, I mean).
Let's hope everything goes the right way (for everybody out there). Enzo De
Ianni
> [quoted text omitted]
Knowing John, he's probably fuming right now, since current policy is NO
ground troops until a peace accord is signed.
Faron