Conquer Club

ironbuttaxe wrote:Then you are part of the problem, not the solution.

There's this old-fashioned thing you apparently haven't heard of, called honour - your word and a few of us still believe in it.

ironbuttaxe wrote:Then you are part of the problem, not the solution.

There's this old-fashioned thing you apparently haven't heard of, called honour - your word and a few of us still believe in it.

ironbuttaxe wrote:Then you are part of the problem, not the solution.

There's this old-fashioned thing you apparently haven't heard of, called honour - your word and a few of us still believe in it.

In an experiment that recorded people's anticipation of, actual experiences in, and subsequent recollection of meaningful life events - a trip to Europe, a Thanksgiving vacation, and a three-week bicycle trip in California – scientists found that people’s recollection of the event was far more positive than their experience of it while doing it.

“The key point is that people rate past holidays - and other experiences - as much more positive in retrospect than they do at the time,” said Professor Chater, who is part of Warwick Business School's Behavioural Science Group.

“This is an illustration of the general idea that my life now doesn’t seem as good as it will look in retrospect.”

DirtyDishSoap wrote:I'm bored and I have time to kill.

Here's a list of games where there were truces and subsequently broken.

Game 14570723 - Blue breaks the truce after becoming clear it was a neck and neck race between you and teal. Wouldn't have mattered what his action were, but he chose you because you were the bigger threat.

Game 14745565 - There was never a turn notice or any stipulation and you freak out. ???

Game 4585221 - Ruh oh, hypocrite alert!

Honestly, after that last game, I stopped checking. It's one thing to be a classless whiner, it's another thing to be a hypocrite as well.

DirtyDishSoap wrote:I'm bored and I have time to kill.

Here's a list of games where there were truces and subsequently broken.

Game 14570723 - Blue breaks the truce after becoming clear it was a neck and neck race between you and teal. Wouldn't have mattered what his action were, but he chose you because you were the bigger threat.

Game 14745565 - There was never a turn notice or any stipulation and you freak out. ???

Game 4585221 - Ruh oh, hypocrite alert!

Honestly, after that last game, I stopped checking. It's one thing to be a classless whiner, it's another thing to be a hypocrite as well.

mrswdk wrote:

ironbuttaxe wrote:Then you are part of the problem, not the solution.

There's this old-fashioned thing you apparently haven't heard of, called honour - your word and a few of us still believe in it.

In an experiment that recorded people's anticipation of, actual experiences in, and subsequent recollection of meaningful life events - a trip to Europe, a Thanksgiving vacation, and a three-week bicycle trip in California – scientists found that people’s recollection of the event was far more positive than their experience of it while doing it.

“The key point is that people rate past holidays - and other experiences - as much more positive in retrospect than they do at the time,” said Professor Chater, who is part of Warwick Business School's Behavioural Science Group.

“This is an illustration of the general idea that my life now doesn’t seem as good as it will look in retrospect.”

https://www.wbs.ac.uk/news/why-we-think ... -old-days/

mrswdk wrote:I heard the dice were coded by millennials as well. Pesky kids >:(

ironbuttaxe wrote:

mrswdk wrote:

In an experiment that recorded people's anticipation of, actual experiences in, and subsequent recollection of meaningful life events - a trip to Europe, a Thanksgiving vacation, and a three-week bicycle trip in California – scientists found that people’s recollection of the event was far more positive than their experience of it while doing it.

“The key point is that people rate past holidays - and other experiences - as much more positive in retrospect than they do at the time,” said Professor Chater, who is part of Warwick Business School's Behavioural Science Group.

“This is an illustration of the general idea that my life now doesn’t seem as good as it will look in retrospect.”

https://www.wbs.ac.uk/news/why-we-think ... -old-days/

Well yes, and if you go along with the good professor's thesis, happy for you. However, back in the real world, societies change, and dare I say, degrade. You may recall the great empires of the past and how they collapsed - not overnight but gradually, and most often from within. But then again, you may not know any history and I'm probably banging my head against a wall trying to have an intelligent discussion with millennial and not so millennial, morons LOL

So f*ck it.

mrswdk wrote:

ironbuttaxe wrote:

mrswdk wrote:

In an experiment that recorded people's anticipation of, actual experiences in, and subsequent recollection of meaningful life events - a trip to Europe, a Thanksgiving vacation, and a three-week bicycle trip in California – scientists found that people’s recollection of the event was far more positive than their experience of it while doing it.

“The key point is that people rate past holidays - and other experiences - as much more positive in retrospect than they do at the time,” said Professor Chater, who is part of Warwick Business School's Behavioural Science Group.

“This is an illustration of the general idea that my life now doesn’t seem as good as it will look in retrospect.”

https://www.wbs.ac.uk/news/why-we-think ... -old-days/

Well yes, and if you go along with the good professor's thesis, happy for you. However, back in the real world, societies change, and dare I say, degrade. You may recall the great empires of the past and how they collapsed - not overnight but gradually, and most often from within. But then again, you may not know any history and I'm probably banging my head against a wall trying to have an intelligent discussion with millennial and not so millennial, morons LOL

So f*ck it.

Presumably being honorable requires so much energy that it doesn't leave you much capacity for being polite or respectful huh?

Hypocrite wrote:Breaking truces is dishonorable, and you should feel ashamed for it, you piece of shit millennial! Unless, of course, I break the truce, then it's perfectly acceptable.

ironbuttaxe wrote:Well yes, and if you go along with the good professor's thesis, happy for you. However, back in the real world, societies change, and dare I say, degrade. You may recall the great empires of the past and how they collapsed - not overnight but gradually, and most often from within. But then again, you may not know any history and I'm probably banging my head against a wall trying to have an intelligent discussion with millennial and not so millennial, morons LOL

So f*ck it.

Back in the real world

ironbuttaxe wrote:I've noticed a growing pattern of truce-breaking in games recently, and I see a parallel in my professional life. The culprits are millennials whose approach to life is generally based on me, me and me. Truces, and in real-life agreements - to pay or to complete tasks, attend meetings etc. are conveniently (for them) broken when they (think they) no longer need the other party; and they further believe a disingenuous apology will placate whoever they've let down.

Just as I was about to write this another fellow-player, in his frustration, has broadcast, in all pertaining games, a notice alerting players to yet another truce-breaker.