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Pet Peeves of boardgaming.
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edulis wrote: Poor losers, the kind the get really angry and blame their lose on everything, but their opponent's abilities.
I am not talking about being disappointed in constant poor dice rolls ; we've all had that. I am talking about the ones who can't have fun unless they are winning and when losing manage to suck the fun out of the game for everyone else with this whining and pity party and making statements like "you only won because I didn't move my fucking ship here" or "I played to fucking nice, I should have not let you uncloak after I moved my PS 1 ship" (paraphrase from X-wing on Saturday).
Yep- I don't like those guys.
I was part of a group that played Jyhad on a regular basis for many years, and the group was finally ruined by one guy who fits your exact description. To his credit, he was an intelligent and competitive player who quickly caught up with people who had already been playing for a decade. But he gloated when he won, and he was such a sore loser that it almost made winning suck for the winner. And he kept coming back, week after week, year after year, and got worse.
One time, I tried to talk directly to him about what he was doing, and asked him if he could try to just relax and have fun like the rest of us..He bluntly told me that he was suffering PTSD from his (one) tour of duty in Iraq, and if people didn't like his attitude, that was their problem. I eventually cut back on playing and finally stopped during a particularly busy year. By the end of that year, the group collapsed, and the former players generally point to this guy as the reason.
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edulis wrote: Poor losers....
This might not make sense to people but to me there are two types of poor losers.
The obvious ones we all know where someone gets pissed off and acts like a impudent child. But what about the other type?
I'm talking about the guy who takes losing too well. The guy who roles with every punch and never gets frustrated in any way whatsoever. There is this awesome guy I game with who never, EVER seems to get upset at anything. Sometimes I want my punches to hurt - ya know. Sometimes when I have a good play I need to validate that awesome move with a look of horror on my opponents face and if I don't get it... I'm a little disappointed. I need to know that you care about the game enough to get a least a little bit upset when I stomp you.
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Shellhead wrote: But he gloated when he won, and he was such a sore loser that it almost made winning suck for the winner. And he kept coming back, week after week, year after year, and got worse.
We used to play MtG at University in the cafe and there was one guy who was a notorious bad loser. To the point where he had a reputation for self-inducing epileptic fits when he got upset with the game. I wasn't sure whether to believe that until he did it in front of me.
My main pet-peeve is what I see as an increasingly incestuous board gaming media.
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But there are times, when someone makes a decision after you've gone that they wouldnt have made, forces they wouldnt have committed where you are just stuck.
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Sevej wrote: I kind of feel guilty about this, but I absolutely can't stand Rahdo. I know he's explaining games, but he repeat himself more often than I'm comfortable with. There's not many thing that makes me scream at my laptop
As the burden of rules explanation often falls on me, I appreciate the thoroughness of Rahdo's play through videos. The problem for me is that he just rarely features games I give a rat's ass about, because his wife is not a fan of games with direct conflict. 'Tis a shame.
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That is why I said reasonable takebacks. I tend to accept up until midway through the next players turn if it will involve piece movement, and just about any time if it is something as simple as drawing an extra card. And I am talking about miscounting or not understanding rules, stuff that shouldn't happen if you are 100% focussed on the game and have played it regularly enough to know the rules.Ska_baron wrote: Yeah, and reasonable to me is if the game state either hasnt changed (next person didnt take their turn yet) or things would have played out the same (realizing you meant to build something differently in TI3 earlier in the round is usually fine for example).
But there are times, when someone makes a decision after you've gone that they wouldnt have made, forces they wouldnt have committed where you are just stuck.
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Josh Look wrote: He did do Evolution, a game you really ought to look at, Ken, if you haven't already. I know your tastes and I think you'd really dig it.
A recommend from the Lookster is a solid in my book. Maybe one of the Huntsville gamers has it so I can try before I buy.
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2) Game consumerism taken to extreme. Of course I know games have to be sold to keep the hobby going, but I'm pretty much a mallrat in this aspect. I stay away from most Kickstarter or "top ten games you MUST buy this year" type Youtube videos. I have to REALLY dig something at this point to buy it. I don't need a salesperson to push it onto me. And, YES, I did enjoy GenCon the two times I went. Very much so. That was mostly for the company I kept (Pete and the guys I met through Pete). Origins scratches the same social itch for me.
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- someone that loses badly.
- someone that loses well.
For me, I don't like someone that doesn't want to listen to rules but then will complain several times during a game that if they had known that was a rule, they wouldn't have done that. Or worse, "you should have said that was a rule". Go die for focks sake.
I also hate playing with people that are eating when we're playing. This is really just a pet peeve though, I know it's not a reasonable thing to have bothering me. I actually stopped inviting or playing with quite a few people that did this. I remember this one guy, John, who was eating donuts during a game of Diplomacy. I never played with that guy again. He's SUPER nice too.
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Black Barney wrote: I also hate playing with people that are eating when we're playing. This is really just a pet peeve though, I know it's not a reasonable thing to have bothering me. I actually stopped inviting or playing with quite a few people that did this. I remember this one guy, John, who was eating donuts during a game of Diplomacy. I never played with that guy again. He's SUPER nice too.
I have only played Diplomacy twice, and both games were on the same day. I vividly recall enjoying the Dunkin Donuts that one guy brought more than the game. But I am not John, and I am not super nice, so this is just an uncanny coincidence.
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