by dulling each other in a cartoon game
Actually, the object is to make each other sharper, you know, steel on steel. Nyuck, nyuck.
BTW, I don't know why you think anyone is "showing what big men they are" by doing this. Is that how you think? Is that what you are hoping to get out of this game?
This is a game where the object is to play against each other and in this game the playing is a type of fighting. We want to play with other guys that like to play like we do. It makes it more fun and gets the blood pumping a little more when you make it public and talk a little trash to put some bragging rights or psychological capital on the line. That's all. K? K.