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jinyu
Age. 37
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Sprocket's Training Milestones
Came home (Aug 2, 2014)
Asked to go outside (Aug 5, 2014)
Slept 4 hours straight (night) (Aug 5-6, 2014)
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7/3/13 - 8
7/4/13 - 30
7/5/13 - 36
7/10/13 - 54
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Play to Win?
Saturday. 7.6.13 2:15 am
I made someone mad, again. I really rattled them. She went head to head with me in Small World. I was entirely willing to let her do her thing, but... well, you know how it goes: she had a special ability and enough guys to wipe me off of the map. I couldn't afford to be wiped off the map (although, looking back on it, I doubt she knew her advantage), so I attacked preemptively. We battled over this one stupid mountain for two turns and eventually, I took her out. It hurt me pretty bad, but I guess the other two players saw the wounded bird and started to pile on. Well... she was pretty upset.

The thing is, this kind of stuff happens to me waaay more than it should.

Don't get me wrong! I don't hunt people down. I don't talk trash. I just quietly build my resources and them steamroll anyone who gets in my way. (Okay... I know...)

The thing is, when you play as many games as I do, you stop expecting anyone to cut you any slack. You hope for it, you ask for it, you give it out when it really doesn't matter, but you don't except it. I played a game of Magi-Nation* once against a tournament Magic** player. I didn't even get to draw, he decked me in his first turn. You see that, you think "Wow, that's not fair", but you can't take it personally. If you are going to get good at CCGs*** and boardgames or any kind of strategy games, you have to think "Good game, he beat me like a drum. What strategy is he using? How can I use it in the future?" Otherwise, you have to play the part of that dumb girl who pretends she likes Magic and then you will NEVER get them to stop giving you crap or hitting on you.

I keep it pretty honest, too. I don't let you miss your extra points and I don't miss mine, either. If there's an argument, I look it up in the rules. But if I'm going to play, I'm going to play. You can take back your moves, we will give you the points that you should have gotten automatically. I will work with you, but if you were just relying on my mercy to give you that long-shot comeback... well, I won't (unless I'm tired and I don't want to play anymore. That does happen).

However, even as a I justify my methods, I can't help but remember all the times people have gotten super ticked and me for knowing how to play a little better than they did, all the times I've made grown men and women cry, scream and yell at me for plowing them into the dirt. It reminds me that tournament Magic players can only play Magic with other tournament players and that maybe, I need to... well...

*Collector's Card Game. Think Pokemon or Yugioh
**Another Collector's Card Game (CCG)
***Collector's Card Game
1 Comments.


I'm really glad that the people that I play with are all super nice and don't really care about winning. The guy who runs it is always like, "Ah, yes, you could make that move, but did you know that if you made this other move, you could totally destroy my entire army? Oops-- maybe I shouldn't have told you that!"

And then everyone is like, "Well, I will steal from this person, because they have the most money/I see they are about to get more money/it won't change their plans too much/I told from my neighbor on the other side during the last turn.

Sometimes we have civilization-building games and nobody ever builds an army.

Because like you say, if you have one person who is set on winning, then everyone else has to follow them down that path... when one person arms, everyone has to divert their resources to arms. Anyway, I think the important thing is to have a good time among friends. :)
» Zanzibar on 2013-07-06 06:09:37

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