Imagine if no one treated life as a zero-sum game and only agreed to play in co-op mode?
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Imagine if no one treated life as a zero-sum game and only agreed to play in co-op mode?
In any other game, if you found out it was rigged after playing your hardest for years, and folx were like "that's just how it is, and the price of losing can include dying in a gutter from sheer indifference", you'd probably flip the fucking table.
@alice Sadly more people played in co-op mode* a few decades ago, but neoliberalism has made us think that everything is PvP these days.
* As long as you had the right colour, procreation equipment, attraction behaviour, and acted like you were expected based on the aforementioned properties. Things were definitely not perfect, but it would be nice if we got the societal cohesion back without all the othering bullshit behaviour.
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Imagine if no one treated life as a zero-sum game and only agreed to play in co-op mode?
In any other game, if you found out it was rigged after playing your hardest for years, and folx were like "that's just how it is, and the price of losing can include dying in a gutter from sheer indifference", you'd probably flip the fucking table.
@alice We could have Star Trek future tomorrow if we took care of the worst billionaire trash in society and then worked together to build a better tomorrow. I guarantee it.
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Imagine if no one treated life as a zero-sum game and only agreed to play in co-op mode?
In any other game, if you found out it was rigged after playing your hardest for years, and folx were like "that's just how it is, and the price of losing can include dying in a gutter from sheer indifference", you'd probably flip the fucking table.
@alice
The original Monopoly game came with 2 sets of rules. The one we play that encourages monopolies (and flipping of the table) and the other that taught anti-monopoly ideals and cooperation. -
@alice
The original Monopoly game came with 2 sets of rules. The one we play that encourages monopolies (and flipping of the table) and the other that taught anti-monopoly ideals and cooperation.@Scotter wow, I might have actually liked the game with anti-monopoly rules.
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Imagine if no one treated life as a zero-sum game and only agreed to play in co-op mode?
In any other game, if you found out it was rigged after playing your hardest for years, and folx were like "that's just how it is, and the price of losing can include dying in a gutter from sheer indifference", you'd probably flip the fucking table.
@alice And people still play monopoly, even though it's litterally designed to be bad, for educational purposes.
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Imagine if no one treated life as a zero-sum game and only agreed to play in co-op mode?
In any other game, if you found out it was rigged after playing your hardest for years, and folx were like "that's just how it is, and the price of losing can include dying in a gutter from sheer indifference", you'd probably flip the fucking table.
@alice
I’m drawn to the Four of Pentacles telling you that your tight grip on “my way or no way” might be holding back the game’s true potential, while the reversed Page of Pentacles nudges you to let those ideas land in concrete plans and share them with others so that cooperation can turn your dreams into tangible wins.https://taru.guru/shared_reading/1566/a14d543e-8f59-43e4-a42d-fe96bd6f447b
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Imagine if no one treated life as a zero-sum game and only agreed to play in co-op mode?
In any other game, if you found out it was rigged after playing your hardest for years, and folx were like "that's just how it is, and the price of losing can include dying in a gutter from sheer indifference", you'd probably flip the fucking table.
@alice one of the most interesting things about evolution is how cheating occurs in social species. The bigger a group, the better the odds that you won't get caught. The fewer individuals cheating, the greater the benefit to a cheat. In small units like what our ancestors evolved in, it was harder to not get caught. In our society, the cheats took over and made it so even if they get caught they don't get consequences. If we were wasps we would have eaten their heads by now.
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@alice I played World of Warcraft long long ago, and tried to play again, since they allow you to play the old versions now.
Everybody is MinMax (i learned this word there, the extreme optimization of a character to maximize performance, damage, healing, or survival, while minimizing inefficient choices ). The game is the same, but everybody knows everything, guides, strategies, etc etc.
No one is just playing for fun anymore, which i suposse is the ideia of a game, people just conquer everything and leave, no one just wanna talk anymore :(
I guess like in life, sometimes you dont want to win, and conquer everything, sometimes, just wanna talk is cool too :)
Too much competition nowadays, i think nowadays it is harder to make friends too.
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Imagine if no one treated life as a zero-sum game and only agreed to play in co-op mode?
In any other game, if you found out it was rigged after playing your hardest for years, and folx were like "that's just how it is, and the price of losing can include dying in a gutter from sheer indifference", you'd probably flip the fucking table.
@alice There is a nice a
playful mathematical formalization of your proposal.Can anyone identify the point of failure in reality?
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@alice I played World of Warcraft long long ago, and tried to play again, since they allow you to play the old versions now.
Everybody is MinMax (i learned this word there, the extreme optimization of a character to maximize performance, damage, healing, or survival, while minimizing inefficient choices ). The game is the same, but everybody knows everything, guides, strategies, etc etc.
No one is just playing for fun anymore, which i suposse is the ideia of a game, people just conquer everything and leave, no one just wanna talk anymore :(
I guess like in life, sometimes you dont want to win, and conquer everything, sometimes, just wanna talk is cool too :)
Too much competition nowadays, i think nowadays it is harder to make friends too.
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Imagine if no one treated life as a zero-sum game and only agreed to play in co-op mode?
In any other game, if you found out it was rigged after playing your hardest for years, and folx were like "that's just how it is, and the price of losing can include dying in a gutter from sheer indifference", you'd probably flip the fucking table.
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Okay, I am going to say it:
Whether or not the people of #GazaVerified truly are who they say they are (and I am withholding judgement on that), quite a few are behaving in a manner that is indistinguishable from scammers.
There is the mass following of Fediverse users. If someone follows me, I assume that there is actual interest in what I have to say, not because they want money from me.
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