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Message: <blockquote data-quote="SteveC" data-source="post: 9477943" data-attributes="member: 9053">When you referenced high school, I had to laugh because that and college were the times I ran into the most cheaters. And, at the time, it really upset me. So I get the attitude that most people have about stomping this out.Maybe it's just that people do things for different reasons at different points in their lives. Thinking back to my high school days, people who cheated seemed to want everyone at the table to think they were awesome. And that was likely because this was the 80s when gaming and nerd interests in general weren't well received. I've written about this before, but I had a friend actually get hung up in their locker by bullies, so I know how tough it was. That approval in your peer group is a very important thing, especially if other things in your life aren't going well.But I suppose a lot of the people who do this are just jerks. Time in life has made me wonder why that was the case and I suspect it's something a lot more complicated than we can figure out in this discussion. But as an adult, gaming with people I know, I'd like to think that there may be something going on in a player's life that's making this happen. And I'm way past the point where I base my self esteem on leveling up in a game. Now it's all about the reputation points on message boards! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

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