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Re: The BBS Bet

PostPosted: Tue Dec 18, 2012 2:27 pm
by AndyDufresne
thegreekdog wrote:
Funkyterrance wrote:
thegreekdog wrote:I agree with this. I'm hoping he has a whole lecture for us when he gets back on how great of a capitalist he is or how one can achieve non-financial gains and financial gains at the same time. Something like that.


I think you are going to be one disapointed little guy when he comes back.


I think he's going to come back with a vengeance.


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--Andy

Re: The BBS Bet

PostPosted: Tue Dec 18, 2012 2:34 pm
by nagerous
Maybe he will discover a real life during his absence? Unlikely..

Re: The BBS Bet

PostPosted: Tue Dec 18, 2012 2:36 pm
by Funkyterrance
thegreekdog wrote:
Funkyterrance wrote:
thegreekdog wrote:I agree with this. I'm hoping he has a whole lecture for us when he gets back on how great of a capitalist he is or how one can achieve non-financial gains and financial gains at the same time. Something like that.


I think you are going to be one disapointed little guy when he comes back.


I think he's going to come back with a vengeance.


Well, I'm happy to be proven wrong. ;)

Re: The BBS Bet

PostPosted: Tue Dec 18, 2012 2:41 pm
by Gillipig
nagerous wrote:Maybe he will discover a real life during his absence? Unlikely..

+1

Re: The BBS Bet

PostPosted: Mon Dec 24, 2012 8:30 am
by Dukasaur
BigBallinStalin wrote:Presenting evidence:
This should be straight-forward. I post somewhere, and you quote it for posterity, but you need to link it to the original post of mine. (In other words, you can't win by using the [ quote] feature in order to make up shit I didn't say , you rotten scoundrels).

link:
Subject: Silver's 1st Antarctica Quads [8ooo+] {FULL} take reserves

BigBallinStalin wrote:I might have a team. Give me some time, and we'll see.

If anyone else arranges a team before me, then let them in.
[/quote]
Thank you BBS!

:D

Re: The BBS Bet

PostPosted: Mon Dec 24, 2012 8:32 am
by Dukasaur
BigBallinStalin wrote:1. My Premium Membership is valid until 2013-02-09 22:29:54.
2. I don't like paying for things.
3. Therefore, I propose a bet.




BET:
If you catch me* on the fora** any time before 2013-02-10 (2013, February 10)***, then I will pay for your next ConquerClub premium membership. If you take this bet, yet I fail to appear on the fora, then you must pay for my premium membership (which expires on 2013-02-09 22:29:54). You need to renew it for me--to be very clear.

FINE-LINES:
*This only includes posting. This does not include lurking because there's no way I can verify if a photoshopped photo of "Users browsing this forum: BEEBS" was photoshooped.

**The fora include GD, this place, and any other subforum and subsubforum and whatever other forum. To be clear, the only exceptions are my clan forum, the PM system, and the Walls.

***The bet becomes effective 24 hours from the time of this post. I'll just revisit this when the bet expires to see who took the bet.


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qualifies...:)

Re: The BBS Bet

PostPosted: Mon Dec 24, 2012 10:44 am
by Baron Von PWN
OH SNAP!

Re: The BBS Bet

PostPosted: Mon Dec 24, 2012 11:00 am
by MoB Deadly
Wow! Totally unexpected, you must of cheered when you saw his post count increase!

Re: The BBS Bet

PostPosted: Mon Dec 24, 2012 12:32 pm
by rdsrds2120
Dun dun dun dunnn.

BMO

Re: The BBS Bet

PostPosted: Mon Dec 24, 2012 12:41 pm
by nietzsche
qualifies? will we have a long long long debate in which BBS proves with theories of free market that he did not post at all?

Re: The BBS Bet

PostPosted: Mon Dec 24, 2012 12:42 pm
by rdsrds2120
nietzsche wrote:qualifies? will we have a long long long debate in which BBS proves with theories of free market that he did not post at all?


Since there was no explicit demand for a BBS post, why was there a supply?

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BMO

Re: The BBS Bet

PostPosted: Mon Dec 24, 2012 3:39 pm
by Dukasaur
მოდის, ჩემი მეგობარი?

The jig is up, you can be free to be your ribald self again!

Re: The BBS Bet

PostPosted: Mon Dec 24, 2012 3:44 pm
by Funkyterrance
So Dukasaur gets free premium and we got like a month of no BBS on the forums. Brilliant idea BBS!
What a doornob.

Re: The BBS Bet

PostPosted: Mon Dec 24, 2012 9:20 pm
by x-raider
rdsrds2120 wrote:Dun dun dun dunnn.

BMO




Funkyterrance wrote:So Dukasaur gets free premium and we got like a month of no BBS on the forums. Brilliant idea BBS!
What a doornob.

:P

Re: The BBS Bet

PostPosted: Tue Dec 25, 2012 5:50 pm
by Haggis_McMutton
inb4 BBS still doesn't post in OT till the specified deadline.

Re: The BBS Bet

PostPosted: Tue Dec 25, 2012 5:52 pm
by Dukasaur
Haggis_McMutton wrote:inb4 BBS still doesn't post in OT till the specified deadline.

He can hide, but "fora" is "fora" and the only exemptions in the original were for his clan forum.

Re: The BBS Bet

PostPosted: Tue Dec 25, 2012 5:56 pm
by Haggis_McMutton
Dukasaur wrote:
Haggis_McMutton wrote:inb4 BBS still doesn't post in OT till the specified deadline.

He can hide, but "fora" is "fora" and the only exemptions in the original were for his clan forum.


yep, he screwed up. he really should have specified this only applies to the discussion forums in the first place.

I wonder if the greater lesson to be learned from this is that no matter how ready you think you are to launch a venture you should always get a lawyer to read the small print.

Re: The BBS Bet

PostPosted: Tue Dec 25, 2012 6:54 pm
by nagerous
Dukasaur wrote:
Haggis_McMutton wrote:inb4 BBS still doesn't post in OT till the specified deadline.

He can hide, but "fora" is "fora" and the only exemptions in the original were for his clan forum.


Well played sir.

Re: The BBS Bet

PostPosted: Tue Dec 25, 2012 7:03 pm
by rdsrds2120
He also pointed out that any whatever forum counted, too:

**The fora include GD, this place, and any other subforum and subsubforum and whatever other forum. To be clear, the only exceptions are my clan forum, the PM system, and the Walls.


I don't think he had forgotten that he included tournaments when making the deal, but either forgot about the bet or that he was being generous.

BMO

Re: The BBS Bet

PostPosted: Tue Dec 25, 2012 7:33 pm
by notyou2
My guess is an account sitter, saw the tournament, signed up, and forgot he was on BBS account.

Re: The BBS Bet

PostPosted: Tue Dec 25, 2012 7:54 pm
by Dukasaur
notyou2 wrote:My guess is an account sitter, saw the tournament, signed up, and forgot he was on BBS account.

If that's the case then BBS may have had some stern words for him!

Re: The BBS Bet

PostPosted: Tue Dec 25, 2012 7:59 pm
by notyou2
I'd make him pay. It is Christmas after all.

Re: The BBS Bet

PostPosted: Tue Dec 25, 2012 8:03 pm
by Dukasaur
rdsrds2120 wrote:I don't think he had forgotten that he included tournaments when making the deal, but either forgot about the bet or that he was being generous.

The tournaments thing is interesting, and makes me think that he was being generous.

He posted his intention to join the tournament, but then never did join the tournament. That alone makes it out of the ordinary. Not a super-rare event, it does happen, but it's still something with a below-average frequency. And tournaments? Everyone knows that as part of my official duties I'm always prowling the tournament fora, looking for interesting facts to report on.

Makes me wonder.

Re: The BBS Bet

PostPosted: Wed Dec 26, 2012 4:56 am
by BigBallinStalin
Dukasaur wrote:
rdsrds2120 wrote:I don't think he had forgotten that he included tournaments when making the deal, but either forgot about the bet or that he was being generous.

The tournaments thing is interesting, and makes me think that he was being generous.

He posted his intention to join the tournament, but then never did join the tournament. That alone makes it out of the ordinary. Not a super-rare event, it does happen, but it's still something with a below-average frequency. And tournaments? Everyone knows that as part of my official duties I'm always prowling the tournament fora, looking for interesting facts to report on.

Makes me wonder.


Hate to break it to ya but you're not that special, Dukasaur. When writing a contract, I now realized the importance of adding vague language. That post was clan-related to reserve a spot for a Memento Mori, but my rules are my rules, and they are pretty clear.

I'll have to give my lawyer a call; his people will call your people shortly.

Re: The BBS Bet

PostPosted: Wed Dec 26, 2012 5:19 am
by BigBallinStalin
Haggis_McMutton wrote:inb4 BBS still doesn't post in OT till the specified deadline.


I thought about that, but what's the point?

After taking a break from this site, I'll likely post much less. This place, like many others, is stuck in the realm of opinion--even when low standards of evidence and 'facts' are presented. And unlike some, I'm not one for rhetoric--which is clearly super-effective (e.g. the recent presidential election, that recent shooting and another round of Gun Control debates between the two dumb sides: 'liberal' and conservative or Democrat v. Republican), nor am I in favor of entertaining anti-intellectuals like that nationalist farmer, the self-imagined academic/teacher, Batman Boy, and the English Sissy Tart.

Of course, one need not be an intellectual to be worthy of entertaining, but the person who (un)intentionally distorts information and only produces cyber poo isn't doing anyone any favors. They are sad, sad people with apparently very low opportunity costs. My pseudo-psychoanalysis indicates that they all suffer from low self-esteem, but if it's any consolation, they all have the capability to kill themselves or accidentally get themselves killed, which on net may be beneficial.

Instead, I'd rather spend more time reading and writing books and articles. Occasionally, I'll put this realm of opinion to good use.


For the Greater Glory of Ad Hominem,
BigBallinStalin