Re: [spoon-discuss] Straw Poll on the Government Turnover

[Daniel Lepage <dpl33@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On May 30, 2004, at 7.08 PM, Zarpint wrote:

> On Sun, 30 May 2004, SkArcher wrote:
>
> > On Sun, 30 May 2004 17:57:00 -0400 (EDT), Zarpint 
> > <athena@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > On Sun, 30 May 2004, SkArcher wrote:
> > > > Hmmm, on consideration it is apparent that the "Open Source" theory 
> > > > will
> > > > suffer the same problems as the Telephone did. Making any specific
> > > > time-frame for a single action to be performed by it's nature makes 
> > > > it
> > > > vulnerable to, if you will excuse the term, "camping" the event
> > >
> > > You mean, as in camping out in line to buy Phantom Menace tickets or
> > > something?
> >
> > You don't play FPS games do you?
>
> No. I don't even know what FPS stands for, except feet per second, 
> which
> I suspect is not the case here.

It stands for First Person Shooter, as in a game like Quake, Unreal, or 
Doom. In a multiplayer FPS game, there are usually "respawn" points, 
where players are reincarnated when they die. The term "camping" refers 
to standing around near one of these points with a rocket launcher or 
some similar tool and scoring easy kills by destroying people as they 
respawn. In some games where there will only be one or two respawn 
points that all players on one team might come out of, it's possible to 
win a round simply by standing near these points and holding down a 
trigger: the members of the other team will respawn, but will be 
destroyed before they even get their bearings; this causes them to 
respawn again, and the cycle continues.
	Most serious FPS gamers look down on campers: they consider it a cheap 
tactic that exploits a flaw in the game to gain points without actually 
having any skill.

	'Camping' is sometimes used to describe any behavior that involves 
staying in one place and waiting for someone to come into range; in 
some games this is a necessary part of the game, but in others it's 
looked at as an unsportsmanlike way to behave. Actually calling it 
"camping" usually implies the latter.

--
Wonko

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