Lubawski wrote:josko.ri wrote:sorry all about offtopic, but I think I have right to clear my name with arguments (about ratings received), after Lubawski and several others tarnished it.
To be fair, in games where I played against you, I thought you were a typical opponent. Respectful and polite as far as I can remember (I haven't gone back to look at those). In our war against you I didn't know you from anyone else. You didn't stick out as "an arrogant asshole" (which is what my now wife initially thought of me--she still does, but it's somehow endearing now).
Where I saw a change in you was in the TOFU challenge. I think it's fair to say that because you were attacked, you responded. I really don't know which came first or why. I don't think anyone was on the "right" side in that challenge, so I won't hold that against you. I do believe you've started the fight back up a few times there (this is not one of them). But again, I can understand that because you were attacked, and it can be hard to let that go.
What does strike me as a negative is your comments in this challenge (not the thread, but those two games I pointed out). In those games, you were not attacked prior to being unnecessarily rude. To belittle THOTA's gameplay in a game they won seems preposterous. Perhaps you are still very defensive because of the the TOFU challenge. I can understand that. But to project it on to your next opponent is something that you need to try to avoid.
I won't say this will be my last post in here (because I know myself better than that). But I hope it is my last post about this topic.
That was a pretty good overall post. I'd only like to comment on the Ireland game discussion. It should really be more about the form (Josko writing something people didn't want to read) than the merit (whether or not a mistake was made by THOTA), but I'll start from the merit.
First of all, no, I didn't see it snap by snap. Actually, the one time I saw it before it was over was when Bruce posted it as a win a little ahead of time (
). That considered, it seems hard to judge the merit of that discussion. By reading Commander's response (on Ireland game chat), I believe he acknowledged the mistake (at least considering the Offaly "stack" of 5 - the bonus part is hard to interpret, as he pretty much said going for the bonus was bad but doing anything else was bad too: when you only have bad options, picking a bad one isn't really a mistake). Again, I'm not putting words in Commander's mouth, this is just how I interpreted his response.
Now, the form. I'm pretty much certain that what triggered Josko's response was this:
'2010-12-12 10:54:32 - khazalid: it's a pretty dice based map tbh".
I'm not going to ommit khazalid explained 13 seconds later that he was not taking a shot at Josko's performance. While I have on good authority that khazalid didn't try to take a shot at Josko, it is understandable that some people may be rubbed the wrong way by such a comment.
Now, the reason I'm writing this is because, while I would have taken a different path regarding the situation, I can understand Josko's feelings, which has pretty much been felt by everyone here to an extent during our CC experience. I am sure everyone here has played against an opponent that didn't quite play to perfection but still made a comment about luck on game chat. Yeah, it's revolting. When that happens to me, I usually wear a fake smile (which can't really be seen through the computer screen, but you can always try to imagine) and reply something like "indeed, luck has been on my side this game/today/lately". Some people call that elegant, but it doesn't make it any less fake. Well, in some parts of the globe people prefer the inconvenient but sincere approach. Picking the latter instead of the former doesn't make Josko a monster. Actually, ethically, that makes him the hero.
