It's amazing how much more fun IMO you can have
as soon as you stop worrying about "winning" or "losing"
the war. I win every time i up and find a good fight.
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Exactly, that's so very true...
I play pool in a Team based Pool league. A lot of times the other team will "throw off" on me because they don't have a high level handicap that has a chance to beat me. So, I end up slaughtering their low level person they throw on me. Sure, I won the match, of course I did, I used overwhelming force against relatively no resistance, the outcome was decided before we even lagged. But, I didn't learn a thing and it wasn't fun at all, I actually feel bad for the opposing player. It wasn't fun for the low level person either, they just sit in their bar stool and pout while I run out. Once in a while a team will have a high caliber player, sometimes that person even beats me. Sure, I lost the match, but I almost certainly learned something and it is always a lot of fun to play against some real resistance where the outcome is not a forgone conclusion. You know, win or lose, it's going to be a fight.