complete works of sluggo XII

Article 111                  [ top | bottom ]

Subject:      Re: Apology to William Uther
From:         chdillon@ucla.edu (Charles H. Dillon)
Date:         1996/04/05

In article <4k4018$574@hatathli.csulb.edu>, henryyeh@csulb.edu (Henry Yeh)
wrote:

>: I am extremly Sorry.  I confused William Uther with Bob Uhl.
>
>Hey, that's ok.  I once confused Rush Limbaugh for Nipsy Russell.  
>Mistakes happen!  :D

You know, I don't think I have ever seen Rush Limbaugh and Nipsy Russell
in the same room at the same time.  hmmmmmmm ....

sluggoliverstone


Article 112                  [ top | bottom ]

Subject:      Re: Exploding Pills?
From:         chdillon@ucla.edu (Charles H. Dillon)
Date:         1996/04/07

In article ,
mrd@teleport.com (T. Davis) wrote:

>I recently downloaded Amoeba's Battleground and found that the center four
>pills, when dead, will explode your tank to the heavens when driven over.
>Can anyone explain how to set pills to explode like this?
>m1@whiteakerbase

magic

sluggo


Article 113                  [ top | bottom ]

Subject:      Re: This is a scam! (Was: New version is out!)
From:         chdillon@seas.ucla.edu (Charles H. Dillon)
Date:         1996/04/08

In article , cdh@uic.edu (C.
Douglas Hershberger) wrote:

> 
> Actually I'm not sure that we disagree about much.  You have tactfully
> avoided most of my arguments and chosen instead to argue totally
> irrelevant tangents. 
>  

tangents suck


Article 114                  [ top | bottom ]

Subject:      Re: This is a scam! (Was: New version is out!)
From:         chdillon@ucla.edu (Charles H. Dillon)
Date:         1996/04/08

>
>It's always neat how liberals' definition of open-minded excludes everyone
>who doesn't agree with them.
>
>goob
>aka boob

liberals suck


Article 115                  [ top | bottom ]

Subject:      Re: STOP NOW
From:         chdillon@seas.ucla.edu (Charles H. Dillon)
Date:         1996/04/09
Newsgroups:   rec.games.bolo

In article ,
(Jolo) wrote:

> 
> Everybody stop except sluggo, he rewls.
> 

sluggo sucks


Article 116                  [ top | bottom ]

Subject:      Re: Goob's comments
From:         chdillon@ucla.edu (Charles H. Dillon)
Date:         1996/04/09

In article <4kcgmh$n8d@blackice.winternet.com>, olegv@gw.ddb.com wrote:

>schmeul@umich.edu (Sam Huffman) wrote:
>>More pictures would be cool. Nudie pictures rock.
>>goob
>
>Goob, 
>
>Even you were doing a Beavis+Butthead immitation, editing follow-up to
>go only to rec.games.bolo would have been nice. I do not see why
>readers of other groups need to put up with your sophomoric comments.
>
>Oleg 

sophomoric comments suck


Article 117                  [ top | bottom ]

Subject:      Re: Who is gonna be the next bolo power?
From:         chdillon@ucla.edu (Charles H. Dillon)
Date:         1996/04/11

In article <96102.15225032FDPJC@cmuvm.csv.cmich.edu>, Jeff McDowell
<32FDPJC@cmuvm.csv.cmich.edu> wrote:

>In article ,
>jgoodma1@cc.swarthmore.edu (Joseph Goodman) says:
>>
>>I say that Swat could still take on any other site in the world 1x1, 2x2,
>>or 3x3 and come out in the lead.
> 
>I think cmich could win both the 1x1 and 2x2 categories.  If you don't
>believe me, prove it!
> 

I think UCLA could win the 1x1, 1x2, 1x3, ..., 1x15 categories. 

slobbug


Article 118                  [ top | bottom ]

Subject:      Re: Why won't aIndy take bases?
From:         chdillon@ucla.edu (Charles H. Dillon)
Date:         1996/04/15

In article ,
jgoodma1@cc.swarthmore.edu (Joseph Goodman) wrote:

>It's REALLY hard to get a bot to do a spike. Getting a bot to be even
>remotely skilled at spiking is far in the future of botdom, I think, and
>it will be a while before bots are proficient at spiking. So they have to
>play defensively. Taking bases, on the other hand, would seem easy to
>program, at least at its most basic level...you could always e-mail the
>author of the bot and ask him what he's doing to make the bot better.
>

All the information needed for a bot to spike is there.  With "Advantage
Mode" on, the bot knows where all friendly and enemy bases and pills are. 
All that is needed, then, is an algorithm that decides which pillbox
should go next to which base to either protect your own resources or spike
those of the enemy.  However, formulating such an algorithm in a way that
can be implemented so that the bot can compete with a human player of any
skill is not an easy task.

>
>Well, shit. I've lost the URL for the Ladmo page. Anyone got it?
>
>-- 

Will probably does, but I don't know who the hell he is. ;)

smuggo


Article 119                  [ top | bottom ]

Subject:      Re: Pre-RFD: rec.binaries.misc and rec.binaries.d
From:         chdillon@seas.ucla.edu (Charles H. Dillon)
Date:         1996/05/02

In article ,
gberigan@cse.unl.edu (Greg Berigan) wrote:

> 
> Binaries are uniformly big.  Isolating them all in one hierarchy allows
> them to be targeted and refused.  Putting them in groups all over the
> place denies that opportunity to administrators.  It doesn't matter if
> they choose to do it or not.
> 
> BTW, just because it was announced in the RFD, the new sites popping up on
> the net never saw the RFD, never saw the CFV, and never saw the charter,
> and you can't expect them to read the charters for every group they're
> about to pick up on the off chance the groups allow binaries.  News is
> just too big.
> 

Your statement about binaries being "uniformly big" is really not true in
this case.  Typical "binaries" groups contain large GIFs, JPEGs, and/or
other images or sound/movie files.  The typical "binary" file in
rec.games.bolo is a Bolo map, which is typically no more than 2-4k, i.e.
less than the size of your post.  There is a Bolo ftp site as well, at
 and it is preferred that larger
files such as sounds (Cat_Butt, this means you!! :P), brains, etc. be
posted there with an announcement of their posting placed in r.g.b.  The
r.g.b charter was approved overwhelmingly with this understanding, and if
you would take the time to investigate you would understand that there
really is no problem other than the knee-jerk reaction caused by a certain
well-meaning but misplaced bincancel.


Article 120                  [ top | bottom ]

Subject:      Re: Ettiquette
From:         chdillon@seas.ucla.edu (Charles H. Dillon)
Date:         1996/05/04

In article
, Melvin
Carvalho  wrote:

> Many players in the US conisder the leave alliance trix to be bad 
> ettiquette .  I for one wonder why?  
> 

I have never considered it to be bad ettiquette.  To the contrary, I have
always considered it to be a great display of teamwork.  The first time I
saw it used was in one of the first games I played with Santa, and I
thought it was a really clever trick.  The only person I have ever seen
who considers it to be bad ettiquette is Guy (and maybe some Guy clones
who read his posts on rgb).

> 
> They rox.  Not even HB times 2 could challenge 2 players that were well 
> coordinated and skilled at these moves.  
> 

A while back, I was in a free-for-all tracker game (when such a thing
still existed) when Drifter and Snafu joined with zero bases open, and
started taking pills using the leave alliance trick, and grabbing a dead
base when someone would steal it from another player in the game.  It was
hilarious, after about 20 minutes they had half the map.

> 
> BUT everyone in the US says that they are illegal and unfair - however no 
> one can give a reason why ..
> 

I have never considered them illegal or unfair, nor have most of the
people I have played with or against.  It is a very clever tactic that can
be effective if the opponent is caught napping.

> 
> It is not fair on people that use autoslow (like me).  But, to be honest, 
> its your loss - if you are skilled you will adapt, if not you will die 
> out - Darwinism at its very best.  
> 
> 

Well, to be honest, the leave alliance trick is mostly only useful in
desparation situations when one team is nearly spiked out.  If the spiking
team is careless, the spiked team, if well coordinated can easily use this
trick to clear the spikes and get back in the game.  

> I predict that in the future all neutrals will be taken using leave 
> alliance trix - just as when the first pilltake revolutionised bolo.  
> It gives a whole new set of tactics and countermoves - surely that can 
> only be good for the game.
> 

Well, you can try taking neutrals using leave alliance tricks, but there
are many more efficient ways of doing it.  This isn't anything that hasn't
been tried before and been found to be less effective than more
conventional methods.

> 
> Get with the times or get left out, suxers.
> 
> 

The times are moving backwards.


schmuggo