Humor will not be tolerated!! -Portia

http://theboard.byu.edu/questions/84990/

I'll let you decide who you'd consider to be overly competitive.

My first thought when I saw that question was the principle of mutually assured destruction. Sure, it might not help me in the short run if I take revenge on you after you do something harmful to me. But if you know that I am ridiculously vengeful, you'll eventually learn that any benefit you stand to gain from attacking me will be wiped out by my counterattack, making you more likely to leave me alone. Or something like that.

Then again, I'm also one of those people who just goes after whoever is funniest to target, so I probably shouldn't be talking.

This thread reminded me of an episode of The Weakest Link. Sherilyn just didn't like Aray.

some games let you be more of a jerk than other games

Whistler wrote:some games let you be more of a jerk than other games

Yeah, the fun ones.

I'm never playing Dominion with militia again! I have got to stop taking this personally

Whenever I play dominion I know I'm going to lose (because of the people I play with, they are all good ), so I just curse everyone as much as I can or do other mean things.

Also you have to know your audience when playing a game. And know the game. And be prepared to accept that not everyone will take it seriously, unless you are careful to gather only people who enjoy and understanding how to play a game.

yeah, once I got over the fact that I'd be discarding a lot it helped XD

I would suggest changing what type of games you play. Done of the cooperative games can be extremely fun while still allowing some competition. I like Pandemic, Space Alert, and Betrayal of House on the Hill.