Upset over incompatible gaming styles?

[Oryan77]

There are about 1.5 billion Chinese who will never eat anything except Chinese food their entire lives.

The other two Chinese guys are just allergic.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

The other two Chinese guys are just allergic.

My Dad is an allergist, and just last year, had to break it to a Chinese patient that he was VERY allergic to rice. It could have been worse. He could have been allergic to soy...or both!

 

[Umbran]

Point of fact, studies have shown that decisions are maded in the non-logical part of the brain before the logical part of the brain fires.

Well, not always, and not absolutely, or science as we know it could not occur. Just often - more often than people think. We can be trained out of it (or at least, to avoid the trap sometimes), but it is the price we pay for having brains that were designed for avoiding jaguars and choosing what to eat when we didn't yet know germ theory.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

it is the price we pay for having brains that were designed for avoiding jaguars

Yeah, I always preferred Lotuses and Aston Martins of all the British makes...









what?

 

[Dumnbunny]

There are about 1.5 billion Chinese who will never eat anything except Chinese food their entire lives.

While I couldn't eat it every day, I do loves me some Chinese food.

And why do gamers so readily reach for some variety of food metaphor? I'm participating in/watching multiple threads on a multiple RPG fora right now in which there's at least one food metaphor being used.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

And why do gamers so readily reach for some variety of food metaphor?

I can't speak for anyone else, but I'm fat.



Oh yeah, and I cook well and often.

 

[Balesir]

Well, not always, and not absolutely, or science as we know it could not occur. Just often - more often than people think. We can be trained out of it (or at least, to avoid the trap sometimes), but it is the price we pay for having brains that were designed for avoiding jaguars and choosing what to eat when we didn't yet know germ theory.

Yep - there are logical reasons why we commonly think illogically...

And why do gamers so readily reach for some variety of food metaphor? I'm participating in/watching multiple threads on a multiple RPG fora right now in which there's at least one food metaphor being used.

Mmmmmmm... fooooood...

Getting back on topic:

I do try to think of gaming styles as a "medicine wheel" thing. If I am going to go to the trouble to find a group to play with, I might as well "go the extra mile" to try to find the fun in the way they game (assuming it's not one I am already familiar with). I don't think I have found one, yet, that holds no fun at all. Each new style I try out and find some fun in, that's another stone in my medicine wheel.

That said, I do see a lot of what looks like "this is the way I play, and it's the correct way, as would be obvious if you really thought about it..." This is sad, and odd*.

*: I do find that specific systems suit specific styles better than others - but I think that's a very different thing.

 

[Cor Azer]

While I couldn't eat it every day, I do loves me some Chinese food.

And why do gamers so readily reach for some variety of food metaphor? I'm participating in/watching multiple threads on a multiple RPG fora right now in which there's at least one food metaphor being used.

Food is pretty much the only element that is common to everyone. Sure, types of food are different, but everybody eats (well, should eat).

Sports, cars, politics, religion, television - all those not only depend on culture for what is offered/common, but also on personal preference if they're even worth interest.