I definitely think he might've done well to just not engage sometimes, from the evidence on those pages.
Yeah, I would definitely agree with that. The thing is, I can understand how, especially in the early days of the internet, it would have been tempting to respond to everything, but... maybe it's just the power of hindsight, but it so clearly looks like a bad idea, as well.
"...Because I should obviously conclude that EarthForce is based on the British army even though every EF officer we've met so far has sounded completely American?"
Obviously. I mean, didn't he make that clear? :P
Although it's hilarious to think of them as antlers--I mean, they basically are, but I had just been thinking of them as skulls, pretty much.
It gets funnier now that I've remembered antlers fall off every year. Probably not really the best analogy after all, unless we're missing something about Minbari culture.
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Date: 2010-07-04 09:52 pm (UTC)Yeah, I would definitely agree with that. The thing is, I can understand how, especially in the early days of the internet, it would have been tempting to respond to everything, but... maybe it's just the power of hindsight, but it so clearly looks like a bad idea, as well.
"...Because I should obviously conclude that EarthForce is based on the British army even though every EF officer we've met so far has sounded completely American?"
Obviously. I mean, didn't he make that clear? :P
Although it's hilarious to think of them as antlers--I mean, they basically are, but I had just been thinking of them as skulls, pretty much.
It gets funnier now that I've remembered antlers fall off every year. Probably not really the best analogy after all, unless we're missing something about Minbari culture.