• sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      18 days ago

      Because some people enjoy playing a game with fair and consistent rules, and find playing calvinball to be frustrating bullshit that is very often obviously biased towards certain kinds of actions, decisions, player builds, even just outright biased toward specific players.

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        18 days ago

        Calvinball! is that a C&H reference? ive never seen that particular joke in the comic strip but i feel like i instantly get what the reference means

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          18 days ago

          Yes.

          Calvinball is a convoluted game where Calvin constantly and arbitrarily introduces new rules and addendums and exceptions to existing rules, on the spot, whenever something he doesn’t like happens, so that the outcome will always bend toward what he wants it to be, ie, him winning.

          The strip is basically a storyboarded out version of the concept of ‘moving the goalposts’.

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      18 days ago

      Just because it would be cool doesn’t imply that it would be fun (for everyone involved)?

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        18 days ago

        And just because it isn’t consistent doesn’t mean it isn’t fun for everyone either.

        The point of playing games is to have fun, the rest is secondary. This includes rules.

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          18 days ago

          And the rules allows interesting situations and fun to emerge.

          sv_cheats 1 may be fun for one but not others.

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          I don’t have a problem with bending the rules and going whacko from time to time but it has to be declared in session zero so that everyone is on board.