Subj : Re: Video Games
To   : ARELOR
From : JIMMY ANDERSON
Date : Tue Aug 24 2021 14:01:00

-=> ARELOR wrote to JIMMY ANDERSON <=-

 > Well, I play 'live' games too - board games, etc. and it's mainly for
 > the social aspect. I'll play a game that's not my favorite with people
 > that I want to be with, but will turn down my favorite game if it's
 > with a jerk. :-)

 AR> With games that are social in nature (such as trading and economic
 AR> games) I can get that. I certainly make a rule not to play games with
 AR> people I would not share any other sort of fun with. Half the game is
 AR> talking with friends.

 AR> With games that are brainy strategic or tactical exercises, the social
 AR> aspect vanishes, because everybody turns off their social part of their
 AR> brains while the math part runs hot. Nobody dares talk because they are
 AR> too busy trying to guess their chances of shipping cotton through a
 AR> given port before other players do it, and how both success and failure
 AR> would affect the final score.

I guess I'm too social for games like that then. LOL

I play X-Wing Miniatures (well, I did pre-Covid - haven't touched it lately)
and I don't like playing with people that are in it to win it no matter
what. I'd prefer to lose a GOOD game with a GOOD opponant where we BOTH
have fun than to just win and it be a job.

But that's just me. :-)




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