kewljason said:
well I did point out flash's mistake in this thread as you mentioned, kasi, but I'm not really proud of my remarks. I lashed out at flash, as his sometimes condescending remarks towards newbies got the better of me. (sorry Flash) I try to refrain from getting involved in these types of attacks (that was a weak moment by me) and use the board primarily as a learning tool. I try to give back a bit by partcipating in the discussions, especially for the benefit of new players, as being a relatively new player myself (less that 6 years) I rarely have anything groundbreaking to add. You can take great pride, kasi, that your math knowledge is far superior to mine, and that you have inspired me to learn things about my game (like RoR) that I never really understood all that well, and surely still dont, but I'm still learning. Anyway, I must say that you do have a bit of a confrontational streak in you (as I do as well). I think you made ur point. lets both cut flash a break. (deserving or not) lol
Thanks for your words of moderation.
I do have a confrontational streak, Shakespeare might call it my "tragic flaw" lol. As I recall, you experienced my confrontational streak way back when lol.
You deservedly reamed me a new one lol, and, eventually, I think we have come to understand each other.
So, sometimes, good things happen out of bad beginnings. I once, 21 years ago, made fun of the neckiline and hemline of a fellow employee at a bar after work. The damn boring dress was down to her ankles and up to her neck. Her roommate had a red hat, a low-cut red dress and red 4-inch heels. Stupid me, I thought I liked the red dress.
Thank the Good Lord she stuck up for herself, told me in spades just what she thought, that's when I got hooked lol, and, eventually, came around to thinking I wasn't that bad of a guy. It only took, like, about 7 years before she said "yes". She said "no" twice before that lol.
I lost a job in my 20's, as a stockbroker of all things, because they asked what qualities I most admired in a woman. The choices were Independence, Intelligence, Something Else, and Beauty. I actually remember spending alot of time between Intelligence and Independence.
Several years later Merrill Lynch was actually successfully sued for asking that question since one got the max 2 points for answering Beauty to that question. The Something Else got 1 point. Intelligence and Independence, shouldn't have wasted my time after all, since both got zero points lol.
KewlJ, if I have more math skills than you do, I feel sorry for you. All I can do is add, subtract, multiply and divide. That's it. Maybe apply a formula I've read about in a sheet. If you think I have the slightest clue what a hyperbolic sine function does or means, or what "logarythmic" means you are sadly mistaken. Yet, I put in "@sinh", or @LN, in a sheet, and, eventually, thru trial and error, get a result that agrees with something I read.
You think you have nothing to add? Are you kidding me? All I can do is copy and regurgitate. I am OK at that. I may, not sure, have actually had one original thought in 1999.
You are (maybe almost) the only guy I know here who has been able to play the AC game for 6 years which, personally, in my own weird way, I find utterly fascinating.
Mostly, I thank you for saying, if, in any way, my confrontational ways have eventually inspired you to go further, in some small way, be it ROR or whatever, of pursuing your understanding of BJ.
I'm absolutlely humbled by that statement.
To your point, I'll try to be more neutral in any disagreements of opinion I may have from time to time with FLASH lol.
I kind of secretly enjoy his opinions since, so often, they are so radicallly different than the ones I have and that's how I potentially learn stuff too.
