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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 9751544" data-attributes="member: 18">With love, this seems like the worst possible example unless you absolutely body some of those players who can body him! Because it potentially supports the opposite point to:Which I think is mostly true though I think DMs who are unimaginative/narrow-minded or thick or particularly difficult/ornery will limit player skill regardless of who is playing with them.Re: fighting games, instead of demonstrating that your BF is good at beating you because he knows you, it suggests there's perhaps just a simple skill hierarchy:Players that aren't you > your boyfriend > youWhereas if you could beat some of the players that body him (which I suspect might be the case), then things become more complex.I think with most competitive games, you have two factors going on:1) Familiarity with the specific people involved and how they play.2) Generalized and more independent skill/experience/practice at the game.Like, when I was a big Street Fighter player in the mid-1990s, I could beat a lot of random people I met - like my brother brings along a friend who thinks he's good at Street Fighter, who I've never met before, and I absolutely smash him - that's because of 2 and me being a teenage jerk. But because of a combination of 1 & 2, my brother could absolutely nail a lid on me with Guile when I'm playing Ken/Ryu, like it's really 50/50, even though with either of us playing other characters, and being less familiar, he'd be behind, because I spent a lot more time on Street Fighter.I guess we're not saying anything that different, I just wanted to draw out that particular point a bit.Also to note that I got repeatedly beat at Smash Bros by a 10 year old and a 7 year old recently so I make no claims to actually being good at fighting games lol.</blockquote>

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