I fucking hate the strategizing that goes on with board and card games. You can't just have a casual game. Someone in your group thinks themselves a "player" an

I fucking hate the strategizing that goes on with board and card games. You can't just have a casual game. Someone in your group thinks themselves a "player" and has to ruin the day with minimaxing or whining when they're strategy didn't work against novices because novices are essentially random agents. You can't just play a game and have some fun in the moment. Everything has to be dissected. Every move you make has to be criticized. It's disgusting. I like games, but I almost never play them because I can't stand the fucking nerd culture around them. It's probably been the going with my wife to Mensa's Mindgames convention every year that has pushed me here. Too many people tie up their identity into being able to best everyone else 100% of the time. Frankly, being good at card games doesn't make you smart. Anyone could do a frequency analysis and figure out an optimal strategy. That's just being boring and an asshole. Honestly, my favorite games either have much more of a random element, or take a crowd judgement, rather than a Turing Machine-cum-card-deck. If I wanted to program, I'd write a program.