12:54 p.m., 28.03.07
And what if I refuse?

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Great refusals in the media.

I love it. This reminds me of a crap computer game I had to review for a magazine once. It was one of those online shoot-em-up capture the flags ones, but it was getting tedious to everyone involved.

Luckily, the developers had seen fit to put in a bunch of little voice clips. You could choose your character's voice, and then by hitting a few keys you could get a vocal "The enemy is attacking our base!" out to the others.

I created a character called "The Refusor" with the most manly, chesty, heroic voice available, connected to a busy server, and started to refuse every command from my teammates.

"Cover me!"
"NO!"

"We're under attack! Send reinforcements!"
"NO!"

"Protect the flag!"
"NO!"

People started to join in, and before long, every serious attempt at teamwork was greeted with a chorus of refusal from all quarters. I laughed my head off about this for an hour or so, thought it may have been the funniest moment of my life.

Just wanted to share that.

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