It took me a decade to realize my best friend and I play friendly games differently. It was most obvious in magic the gathering - he would consistently optimiz

It took me a decade to realize my best friend and I play friendly games differently. It was most obvious in magic the gathering - he would consistently optimize the same deck week after week, whereas I'd be bringing new decks with new and fairly general mechanics all the time. Similarly, he only ever played one character in smash bros or overwatch whereas I would heavily rotate. Ultimately his goal was win percentage and optimal play - mastery of specific thing. I was going for fun and interesting wins and variety, and didn't care if I lost 90% of the time of that one win was AWESOME :-) (Possibly relatedly - he brave a very very good Java specialist fter a decade of specific experience. I became a syaadmim then architect them ops manager type generalist :).