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<blockquote data-quote="jonrog1" data-source="post: 1074604" data-attributes="member: 189"><p>Oh, sorry, I believe you missed the point that <em>he</em> was making to <em>me</em>. He was <strong>joking</strong>. </p><p></p><p>He was using "box" metaphorically. He knew all my terms were incorrect. He was simply reminding me that whatever the fine folk of the United States Government gave him to shoot at other folk with, he used. </p><p></p><p>(He's always been a bit of a square-jaw since we were kids, and he finds tech talk boring or ridiculous, depending on his sobriety. Oddly, my foster brother who was a crew chief on a C-130 and led a life of liesure, drinking in foreign bars, and NOT getting shot at can wax rhapsodic for hours on tech. Go figure.)</p><p></p><p>I was extrapolating his pithy saying to the idea that the vast majority of players, given fewer choices in their game-stat models, would not mind either, if it got them to the "shooting" (that is, gaming) faster or more effectively.</p><p></p><p>He felt no need to rub my nose in the fact I didn't know the difference between these things, as he's both my friend and a very nice, if habitually terse, guy. Rather than be grindingly literal, he was being intentionally brief for the sake of a gently chiding joke. Always easy to miss those in postings, because of the lack of verbal inflection. (And I think I've just proven, it takes nine times as long to explain a joke as it does to tell it.)</p><p></p><p>I'm sure, knowing now that it <em>was</em> a joke at my expense, and I assume having served yourself, you now certainly wouldn't leap to the conclusion that he was making crap up about about his career.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="jonrog1, post: 1074604, member: 189"] Oh, sorry, I believe you missed the point that [i]he[/i] was making to [i]me[/i]. He was [b]joking[/b]. He was using "box" metaphorically. He knew all my terms were incorrect. He was simply reminding me that whatever the fine folk of the United States Government gave him to shoot at other folk with, he used. (He's always been a bit of a square-jaw since we were kids, and he finds tech talk boring or ridiculous, depending on his sobriety. Oddly, my foster brother who was a crew chief on a C-130 and led a life of liesure, drinking in foreign bars, and NOT getting shot at can wax rhapsodic for hours on tech. Go figure.) I was extrapolating his pithy saying to the idea that the vast majority of players, given fewer choices in their game-stat models, would not mind either, if it got them to the "shooting" (that is, gaming) faster or more effectively. He felt no need to rub my nose in the fact I didn't know the difference between these things, as he's both my friend and a very nice, if habitually terse, guy. Rather than be grindingly literal, he was being intentionally brief for the sake of a gently chiding joke. Always easy to miss those in postings, because of the lack of verbal inflection. (And I think I've just proven, it takes nine times as long to explain a joke as it does to tell it.) I'm sure, knowing now that it [i]was[/i] a joke at my expense, and I assume having served yourself, you now certainly wouldn't leap to the conclusion that he was making crap up about about his career. [/QUOTE]
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