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Wed 4 Dec, 2002 12:50 pm
World RPS Society
[quote]The World RPS Society declares 2002 to the be the "Official year of the Rock"[/quote]
Looks like it's a big thing! Weird.
Just go to the main home page - LOL
I think I heard the Olympics committee was going to drop the Pentathlon in 2004 and replace it with RPS.
I once was involved in an unsanctioned and unsupervised RPS game, it went on for days and the carnage was unspeakable...
I still have nightmares!!!
The World RPS Player's Responsibility Code
1. Safety First! Always ensure that all players have removed sharp jewellery and watches.
2. Ensure agreement, before the first round, on priming conventions (we recommend the standard 3 prime shoot).
3. Always establish what is to be decided or whether the match is to be played for honour.
4. Pre-determine the number of rounds required to win the match (remember odd numbers only).
5. Encourage novice development by explaining blunders in judgement with a mind towards being helpful. Don't berate.
6. Think twice before using RPS for life-threatening decisions.
7. Always respect foreign cultures. When abroad consider yourself an ambassador of the World RPS Society.
Sure, that's fine Bill, once you hit the bigs, but what about the dog eat dog world that is minor league RPS, and what about the hundreds of thousands of boys and yes, dare I say it, GIRLS too! in unsanctioned and unsupervised "pick-up" games.
There in lies the ugly soft underbelly of the "dirty little secret" that is RPS.
Read #5 Maxie, this list covers every, I mean every possible occurence for ethical standards. If it is a bunch of novices, be sure and reinterate #6 and foremost #1.
This is the world reknown 5-6-1 standard for novices! This stuff was never meant for rank amatuers!
The street RPS game is all flash, all style over substance. Sure, they might throw a behind-the-back scissors or paper between the legs in the show, but they've got the fundamentals, too. Behind every R-R-S-R-P sequence are tens of thousands of hours of practice, unglamorous, alone. I knew a guy who spent an entire winter fine tuning his rock, and he was cut in the first week. Too slow and sloppy on the prime, they said. He's stocking shelves in Ames, Iowa now, waiting for his big break.
It's all a political scheme, wanting us to go back to World War II.
Remember, Stalin used the Rock.
Hitler used the Paper.
Churchill used the Scissors.
(Nixon tried, years later, to imitate Churchill, but didn't have the skill)
Ha! You call THAT a game!!
RPS might be fine for folks on their days off from the sheltered workshop.
Here's the game where men are REAL men, women are REAL women and small plastic discs you flip are REAL small plastic discs you REALLY flip:
http://www.tiddlywinks.org/
Oh, strange, new, world that hath such beings in't!
Nice double-bounce, Phoenix. Obviously, you are a Jacks Master ... er, Mistress ... errrrrrr ..... nevermind.
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Nice bit of the bard there, dlowan . . .
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But that there Miranda always was such a wide-eyed innocent . . .
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