• 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’.