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Nobody likes an aggressively sore loser. It's annoying.
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Pardon me, but I just don't think that Tar-Mirel deserved to win when she didn't really do anything.
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Also, your analogy holds no water since Shakespeare and George Bush are real people and Tar-Miriel et al are (say it with me everyone) fictional.
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What I'm saying is that someone who hasn't shown any proof of their skill and has only shown the lack of it should not be chosen over one who has shown proof of their skill.
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fic·tion n.
1.a. An imaginative creation or a pretense that does not represent actuality but has been invented.
1.b. The act of inventing such a creation or pretense.
2. A lie.
3.a. A literary work whose content is produced by the imagination and is not necessarily based on fact.
3.b. The category of literature comprising works of this kind, including novels and short stories.
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Yes, but even fiction needs order and something to rely upon. If we go outside of canon then we are not being true to the fiction, potentially unraveling it. We should remain true to origins, not the stuff of fan-fics.
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Finally, saying that you're going to blow up the island because you didn't like the outcome of the game is childish. Or, to put it into another analogy, blowing up games you didn't win today leads to beating up grandmothers and stealing candy from children the next. It's a slippery slope. 
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This is Middle-Earth Mirth. "Childish" things belong here if anywhere. Besides, how would you like it if you worked your tail off to get a job and the person who didn't do anything got it instead? Finally, I fail to see how a post in a mirthful corner of the internet will suddenly drive me to attack innocent citizens. That's like the "Eeee! videogames are evil!" arguement, except using tetris as an example. To add onto that, I typed in "orc-fashion." If I was serious, I wouldn't go to that length.
Tar-Mirel won, yes, that happened, but that doesn't mean I can't answer in a silly fashion, just like when I first used "orc-talk" here.
Seriously though, you should get off that island. A fearsome looking hermit known only as "Robinson Crusoe" is rumored to turn into a large worm and grab people from underground. Others say he is a psychic snapping turtle without skin.
Run for your lives. He has already ensalved the wildlife and is using them for food. If legend is true, then he is the fearsome "Euro pean" said to bring a great plague to all life, as his kind did to the "N D ans."