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People who can't play games against people who are better than them are over-competitive and lazy! It's more fun when you play against skilled players, you lear
by mjfl 7y ago
People who can't play games against people who are better than them are over-competitive and lazy! It's more fun when you play against skilled players, you learn more! I've never understood that personality trait, and I love losing at Dominion!
- viraptor 7y agoIt really depends on a game and skills difference. It's one thing to lose against someone just putting in effort to win and making many better decisions. (like dominion) It's another when you lose because the opponent knows the game so well you can't do any meaningful actions. For example, playing your first few games against someone experienced in a fighting game like Smash is pretty pointless. You likely won't land a single hit and won't learn anything. That's also my threshold for fun. The more you can artificially minmax the game, the less fun it is for me. I'm happy to play Scrabble, but if the opponent spent time learning the dictionary rather than expanding their vocabulary, I don't see the point.
- munmaek 7y agoIt really depends on how good the player is. I have played people in smash where the skill gap was so wide I could have just put my controller down and it wouldn't have made a difference. I literally lost a match in a tournament where I didn't, couldn't, touch the enemy once. I was probably the lowest seed in that tournament, he was the #1 seed, and was one of the top 5 players of the game. I normally like playing better players because it forces me to learn and stop using lazy habits that work on worse players, but it's hard to learn anything useful when I'm getting crushed so bad like that. Instead, reflecting and continuing to play with people near my level until I improve enough to revisit that player is a better option for personal growth.