Personal Journal

Tulio- A heartwarming response

I'm not going to give Tulio the lowest possible score. I'm going to give Tulio the score he merits on Saturday. Though others are convinced Tulio will certainly not merit the highest score.

Jason, a player I know there and a very experienced person and sometimes tournament judge, gave me a response that I will post in here shortly. Jason and I had a big near-flame war 6 months ago when I was still too new to know shit from shinola, when I started arguing intellectually, my interpretation of a rule. He took it as an insult, or something, and got mad in a forum in front of many of my other players. And I was the new guy, and people sided with Jason. I almost stopped playing, but one man told me to keep coming and people would cool off toward me once they saw how I really am in person.

Jason and I smoothed that out a month or so later, but very short on words.

So for Jason to say the things to me that he does in this e-mail, well, it's very touching. People don't say this kind of thing to other people often, at least not in my experience, especially man to man. And it made me feel good, because, sometimes all I want is to be recognized to be the decent person that I try to be. Actually, it seems to be happening a lot lately, and I've been uncomfortable with it an awful lot. But what Jason says here, really warmed my heart:

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Dane,
First and foremost, I wish to confirm beyond any
doubt that what happened between us is the past, and I
whole-heartedly apologize for my attitude and actions.
I was more at fault for the debacle between us, and
I'm sorry.

Now, know this: you are NOT the only person
with... "less than pleasent feelings" towards Tulio.
I, too, can not stand him anymore. We used to be
friends, but some time ago he got on this whole
"better than thou" trip he has with playing 40K. He
and I have said much worse to each other than you and
I had, and I'm not the least in regret over him. He
is an ass, no dodging that.
You, on the other hand, are a great player and you
actually are trying to have fun while becoming an even
better player. He will more than likely use your
"less experience" against you, and will probably be an
ass throughout your game, and afterwards with his
cronies if he thrashes you as he is wont to do.
Ignore it. It's beneath you, as a player and a
person. Let what happened between him and Woody, and
then his resultant flames towards us all on the GH
forum be bygone. It's not worth the stress.
If you do face him, play well, play fair, play
hard. You know your army better than him, you know
the rules as well as he does, and you know
fairplay/sportsmanship a LOT more than him. So just
play, enjoy, and score him FOR THE DAY. I'm not
saying that your score SHOULD NOT be colored by who he
is, but on THAT day take the game as played. If he's
an ass (which truthfully will be more than likely...),
then dock him. I will fully stand behind ANY sore you
feel he deserves, as a player and an Outrider. ANd
there are plenty others (who've probably already
responded before me...).

Again, you're a great player, and you should not
feel under scrutiny for any score you give anyone.
You'd be surprised how many people would be in YOUR
corner if he got in a snit...

Jason