2007-04-07 16:42:51 · 11 answers · asked by rosey 7 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Polls & Surveys
If you are playing, it is about winning and losing.
2007-04-07 16:47:00 · answer #1 · answered by Scotch Tape 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Its about how I played the game.
2007-04-07 23:50:26 · answer #2 · answered by Meeya 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Honestly....it's all about winning, at least from what I've seen of the world. As in, if you "win" you are allowed to get by, and if you don't, life just plain crushes you. It's bad. I don't like it. My own parents may have sucked at raising me, but the *rest* of my family, my sisters, aunts and uncles, *the good side* of my family didn't raise me like that.
*I* was taught it was about how you played the game. But somewhere in the 1980s things got broken and messed up, just in terms of creating a real nasty "Winner Takes All" society. I didn't change, but the targets got moved, and in a lot of cases taken out of my reach.
I digress though, sorry...just from what little I've seen, it really is *all* about winning, to the point that people are even *terrified* to play anything where losing is a possibility. One small example of this in my life, one that isn't so politically charged mind you....is in video games.
I used to play video games, on home systems and at arcades, all the time, and constantly welcomed other people to play along with...it was a social outlet once. And I used to play all kinds and all sorts of games too, I'd try anything once.
But not any more. Dealing with the super-competitive snots in fighting games and on your DDR types of games changed that. People don't play video games with other people to be sociable anymore, they do it to *own the machine*, make you lose and run you off. So yeah, I've had to specialize in certain games and also really *avoid* player-versus-player games too, just because it ruins my fun, dealing with the snots for whom *winning and dominance* are everything....
Life is too short, and I'm on a budget. -_- I refuse to waste my time and money *not having fun* when that is WHY I play video games, to have fun. I refuse to *pay for* someone else's making a monkey out of me. And it sucks....that I have to put such a high priority on *not losing* to preserve and protect what little sense of fun and play remains with my hobby.
But that seems to be the trend, doesn't it? The stakes are absurdly high, even with a stinking fifty-cent video game, and people are just *that damn risk averse* because they know, other people are just antisocial on the whole competition thing. And I'd rather not be like that....I'd rather let other people in the game here *with me*....but not if it means always getting tooled on by some antisocial snot who just wants to "own" me, you know?
And I am at least halfway sure that I am not the only one who feels this way, or who thinks it's about more than just video games, you know? ^_^
Thanks for your time.....this is a good Question! ^_^
2007-04-08 00:03:49 · answer #3 · answered by Bradley P 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
how the game is played. its a game, its supposed to be fun. and if you're having fun, then you don't care if you win or lose.
2007-04-07 23:56:43 · answer #4 · answered by Brian D 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
how you play the game
2007-04-08 02:57:55 · answer #5 · answered by dƒ 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
how i played the game
2007-04-07 23:46:36 · answer #6 · answered by psst.... its me 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
winning or losing
2007-04-08 00:07:08 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
None of the above - it's whether you had fun in the process.
(Winning makes it better again but doens't really matter if you had an awesome time anyway)
2007-04-07 23:52:47 · answer #8 · answered by purplebuggy 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Winning..second place is the first loser...
2007-04-07 23:58:23 · answer #9 · answered by metoo 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
it all depends on if i'm having a good time or not..........ushally i;m in for the fun..........weather i win or not...........
2007-04-08 18:07:06 · answer #10 · answered by ladyjamie 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋