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It comes from games from the 00s and earlier which were truly terribly balanced and which you could accidentally become overwhelmingly...

He does seem like a worst-case scenario in many ways, yes. Setting out to optimize hard as GM, then complaining when your players do, is...

Well, its based on the fact that even people who aren't oriented toward optimization want to feel like they're contributing. If some...

Yeah. Talking about your own experiences/psychology is almost certainly fine, though probably not generalizable (and you should keep...

I finally had to resort to the Ignore button to prevent myself from incurring the Wrath of Red Text, so I'm not going to directly...

My take--and this is just my take, I'm not speaking for anyone else, here--is that having people who are optimized to different extents...

In my experience some people are jerks, but most people want to follow the social rules. An actively bad game is one in which you are...

Once again your experience is functionally the opposite of just about everyone else's--and you are conflating "spotlight hog" with...

Where's that? Is it a Canadian province? Or part of New Zealand?

Second post and I think the thread already had a pretty good and workable answer. Open-ended, ongoing games have any number of informal...

I've left tables when everyone else was clearly enjoying the play but it was driving me kinda nuts (in a bad way). I have persistently...

Yes, agreed. Let's face it: there are different approaches to RPGing, different playstyles, different values, different aesthetic...

Yeah, ideally you can enjoy the game, whether you win or lose. I didn't understand the OP or the conversation to be about enjoyment, as...

Maybe 'the rest of the world' just means the US, but in the UK poor loser and bad loser are common and sore loser is not.