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Re: Play to win, or beat?

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From: joel... Joel Erdtsieck
Date: Fri, 10 Sep 1993 09:29
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Jim R. Leonard (jleo...@falcon.depaul.edu) wrote:

: 	- Playing to "beat people" means just that--using every lame, cheesy,
: cheap, cornering, throwing, and generally exploiting-the-weaknesses-of-the
: game-or-your-opponent moves in order to win as quickly as possible.  Whenever
: I fight one of these people, and it's clear I'm worse, the game is over in
: about 20 seconds with a 2:0 win on his side.  Is this considered fun?
: I did this once on someone who was worse than me, and the look of frustration
: on his face just wasn't worth it.

: I'd like a serious discussion on this--do you guys play to win, or beat people?

Well personally, I hate playing other people.  I would much rather play the
computer.  I consider myself an above average player.  When someone asks me
if I mind if they play, then I play to win.  If one of those little
buttholes walk up and just drop thier quarter/token in the machine, then I
play to beat, mangle, slaughter, etc etc...  It all depends on the
situation, but I never walk up to machine when I do want to play against
another player with the sole intent to beat THem to death.
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