10th April 2005, 4:36 PM
To "troll" is to say something which would be obviously argumentative to everyone you are saying it to, not because you actually think it or want a real debate, but simply because you want to see how angry you can get them.
Was PH trolling right now? Well, I'm not so sure... I've never played that game, so I can't say for myself what PH experienced, but it's possible that the situations lazy got involved in on such an emotional level (the key emotion being fear) are situations that PH either avoided via very clinical style gameplay (thinking through all situations logically and eliminating all future potential for threats early on), or didn't really grab him so much as make him think "yeah, I know the enemy is coming, alright let's do this...".
Was PH trolling right now? Well, I'm not so sure... I've never played that game, so I can't say for myself what PH experienced, but it's possible that the situations lazy got involved in on such an emotional level (the key emotion being fear) are situations that PH either avoided via very clinical style gameplay (thinking through all situations logically and eliminating all future potential for threats early on), or didn't really grab him so much as make him think "yeah, I know the enemy is coming, alright let's do this...".
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)