>Gosh, I hope I didn't traumatize
>you. Because I certainly
>didn't intend to traumatize you.
> I mean it.
>Because had I intended to
>traumatize you, boy oh boy
>would you ever be traumatized,
>totally dev-a-state-ed. That's me,
>I set out to traumatize
>I don't hold back, I
>just bring out the big
>guns and go all out,
>call out the trauma team
>to pick up the pieces.
>

Traumatized? By a guy sitting at a computer? Hardly. I've dealt with some of the biggest a-holes over at Sucks.
Big guns!! A petard at most.

>But since you misrepresented what I
>said, allow me to clarify
>in most certain terms.
>
>What I did and do say
>is that it is meaningless
>to assess a player's game
>on the basis of realities
>which were not a factor
>in that game.

The F5 decision was certainly a factor in the game. All Skupin and Lisa had to do was listen the what everyone was saying about Denise's invinciblity and vote her out instead of Abi. An alternate reality would be asking what happens if Dana doesn't quit because that brings in too many variables. But the F5 vote was only between Abi and Denise. 1 variable. Skupin and Lisa didn't even have to tell Abi about it.

>I said that in terms of
>alternate realities you supposed in
>regards to certain players in
>S25 who could have perhaps
>been better but weren't, but
>I will further make that
>in regard to comparing one
>player in one iteration of
>the game to other players
>in other iterations of the
>game. To put all
>that in positive terms:
>The only meaningful way to assess
>a player's game is to
>assess it under the conditions
>in which that game was
>played, anything else is meaningless.

That's exactly what I am doing. In THIS iteration, Denise was damn lucky.

>As for your opinion of S25,
>I know you were considerably
>less satisfied with the season
>and the outcome than was
>I, and I have pretty
>much left that alone no
>matter what trash you put
>out.

See how you misread me: The outcome was the only good thing of the season. The cast and the presentation were awfully boring.

>However, when you take issue with
>another poster's opinion, when you
>do so in an argumentative
>manner inviting argument in return,
>when the arguments you present
>are in my opinion preposterously
>meaningless, and if no one
>else bothers to call you
>on it and I feel
>like doing so, get ready
>for the paintballs coming your
>way. All just in
>good fun, though, paintballs not
>nukes.

Preposterously meaningless?! You can use all the superlatives you want but it makes you sound like Denise's fanboy.