On Fri, 17 Jul 2009 22:32:52 +0100, James Luff <lufferov@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Chris F wrote:
and what was with so many of them having ridiculously low gamerscore?
i found that a bit odd.
I'm guessing the reason for that is lots of people have created new
Silver accounts to get a free month of Gold so they can try it out!
Otherwise MS have lots of testers playing as "The One", which is also
possible of course.
yeah, probably.
must admit i was a bit dismayed at seeing that mr pibbles guy and the
guy who's done up like the joker in the 100 at one point, considering
they were 'ones' last week.
you'd think there'd be some sort of system where being in the 101
would disqualify you from being in it again for a while, to give a
glimmer of fairness to the thing.
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Re: Battlefield Earth - Romneys favorite book - better then I recall?? ... I found that very odd and very pandering. ... But disgreeing with his preference in literature is possibly the worst reason I have heard of. ... How would you feel if I said I would not vote for a woman because she liked lurid romance novels? ... A candidate who enjoys romance novels is far more in touch with the electorate than an SF fan. ... (rec.arts.sf.written)
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