Originally Posted by redietz View Post
Originally Posted by The Boz View Post
I for one hope Max and Rob set something up to meet. It might not prove much gambling wise but would show that both are regular people and regardless of all the back and forth, can be civil to each other.

In terms of evaluating a person, I don't see how six hours spent in someone's company would much soften 10,000 forum posts over 10 years. Or are expectations these days that everyone plays make believe when they're online for hours on end but are "their real selves" when they get to meet somebody face to face? Seems to me, it's more likely the other way around. It's easy to suck it up and pretend you're on Broadway when in someone's company for a few hours. Harder to reign in who you are over years and thousands of posts.

I don't even see how you can make a case for online personas "not being real." If a person spends thousands of hours posting as such-and-such, that's who they are. If you're an online pedophile, you're a pedophile. If you're an online liar, you're a liar.

Thinking that you "know the real person" after spending a little time with them face to face is the height of arrogance. It suggests that you have some godlike ability to "see the true person" in a couple of hours. You may as well claim you can read the other person's mind, because that's pretty much what you're claiming.
Even seeing him playing $50/hand VP for awhile would lend credibility to his latest claim.