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Old 12-09-2011, 11:21 AM
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Cool. Calvinball was before my tenure. Let's play.
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Old 12-09-2011, 11:25 AM
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I very briefly entertained the idea of making that one of the Survivor challenges. I was only stymied by Calvinball's natural resistance to being bound by scoreable rules.
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Old 12-09-2011, 11:29 AM
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I very briefly entertained the idea of making that one of the Survivor challenges. I was only stymied by Calvinball's natural resistance to being bound by scoreable rules.
Because that would clearly have been totally contradictory to everything Survivor stands for

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Old 12-09-2011, 11:32 AM
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I very briefly entertained the idea of making that one of the Survivor challenges. I was only stymied by Calvinball's natural resistance to being bound by scoreable rules.
I think it would have been a great theme for the Marathon...
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Old 12-09-2011, 11:37 AM
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Because that would clearly have been totally contradictory to everything Survivor stands for

Well played.
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Old 12-09-2011, 11:39 AM
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Well played.
ninja'd. I was going to say the same thing.
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Old 12-09-2011, 11:41 AM
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I think it would have been a great theme for the Marathon...
Why would we come up with a theme for a game no sane player would actually take part in?!?!?!?!?! :
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ninja'd. I was going to say the same thing.
So what am I thinking now???
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