Posted by A coder on July 20, 2000 at 13:42:18:
In Reply to: You're wrong. posted by Macheath on July 20, 2000 at 13:39:58:
> > He did learn them less painfully, the crash I said occured just as he got back to his corpse.
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> That doesn't make what you did any better. I'm glad the newbie didn't experience any loss, but you're no less of a fuckhead.
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> > we talked to him after the crash and it turns out his death was wiped out from it, so no harm was done.
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> No harm was done? I may be going off the deep end on the drama scale here, but I think significant harm was (or could easily have been) done. When I was a newbie, I had a black hammer pendant. A hero decided he wanted it, so he offered to get me another if I'd just follow him. I agreed eagerly, and was sorting through my things while he led me to the Mausoleum. Was I gullible as hell? Yes. Did I ever do that again? No. Did that instance color my views of certain people and change the way I interacted with that hero once I ranked up and became a force in the cabal he was associated with? Hell yes. Would I ever do that to another player? Not on your life.