It is essential to remember that any game, be it chess, gilli, kabbadi, video game, mario, cricket, rugby, cuplings, spoonlings, dikkilona, soccer, golf, mini-golf, beer-pong, spin-the-bottle, tail the donkey, paandi, soodhaatam etc etc etc, be it any game on earth. It is essential to remember that two people can play it.
The only way you are gonna be sure of victory is by planning ahead and making sure you are atleast 32 moves into the game before the other person realizes it.
Yes. That only.
Two can play that game.
And every other game.
Vazhkkai, Vaetkai
12 years ago
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perfectly true, as long as by 'games' one means 'activity one is engaged in for pleasure or amusement'
Danks for your droppings by. :)
I suppose the tag can be applied to other 'activities' as well and it would still hold good. You don't think so?
I suppose one could..
lets say one feels balked or malcontent with the way things are proceeding..one option is to resign and 'play' martyr..the other is to decide, with a certain measure of recklessness and dissociation, to 'play to win'..either way, even if one does land the payoff, what then does one do with it..
Then of course, there is this small matter of dealing with the 'middle-class manasatchi' that we are born in to.Inconvenient fellow.Insists that the prize is somehow tainted. And unlike pancreatic phonations he decides to articulate himself right after you down a couple of shots.
He keeps maintaining that he is you.
"I am overtired
Of the graet harvest I myself desired"
You made me right click and do search google for "..." ...four times!
Yes, those are standard moves. Once you get a little desperate you decide to 'go down swinging'. That, I feel, doesn't help much. It just satisfies the ego. But what are we, if not our pride eh?
Oh that Fox rears his dirty head every once in a while. And he is often quite convincing.
But I still maintain that we gotta keep playing. "Life is short. Play more" preaches Xbox. And I agree. The outcome need not be in your favour, but it should have been decided by you.
So we either keep on playing or develop a split personality and deny everything. For if there is one thing that hurts like hell, it is regret.
"You know Billy, we blew it."
That one has to play, seems inevitable. An old, and might i add wise, Chinese proverb goes
"If you must play, decide on three things at the start: the rules of the game, the stakes and the quitting time"
Trouble here is that, the element of determinism, of control, the 'it should have been decided by you' goes for a toss.
The rules you've bent. With every roll, it is not just the die you throw, it is yourself. The stake is not what you are playing for. It is winning yourself back. Quitting time? It stops when the game quits you.
And what for? One will just end up shooting from either ends of the barrel.
Very interesting quote. Haven't heard it before.
The game is always yours to play as you choose. You can play along. Or change the rules to suit your needs. If the stakes are high, you can hit the pause button and plan your moves. (you should have before you began.) Or take the emergency exit.
But hey, all games are like Calvin Ball.
And who wants to play fair? :)
To post-modernism.
*raises toast with tall, empty glass*
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random rant.
To post-modernism!
*raises toast with tall, empty glass*
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random rant.
To post-modernism!
*raises toast with a tall, empty glass*
*no takers*
random rant :)
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