Do you tryhard when playing vidya with friends?

Why don't women ever think like this?

i took a fat shit today, it was very satisfying and relieving
what is the video game equivalent of freeing your bowels from poop demons?

Super Mario Maker

I enjoy playing the heel and shit talking friends while winning, it creates excellent banter.

Not when it's obviously a casual game
On the other hand i tend to get frustrated with board games because they almost always have shitty balance or too much randomness

I dont' play vidya with friends. But I do tryhard when I play boardgames with friends.

Toilet in Wonderland

Any time I've played Cards Against Humanity has sucked because I never get any good cards.

They do
Read Sigmund Freud's works

Never successfully treated anyone.

I hate the people that do. Note that tryharding isn't just trying to win, or not being willing to throw. It's specifically those that, in a session that's casual and focused on camaraderie and friendship, they're ultimately still focused on "mastering" the game. Just another chance to test strategies and "spar." It's that self-centered behavior, when they're effectively exploiting buddy hours. They're not there to play with the buddies, they're there to play for themselves and just find the buddy session more opportune.

And I especially hate them because that means they'll often have very limited preferences on what they'll play, as they want to keep it to games they feel they can dump the hours into "mastering," and when everyone else starts playing a variety of other games, they get the most fragile and insecure about whether they're still being included. Even though they're the ones refusing to play along and won't even ask to play their preferred games first.

And it just happens way too often. There's always at least 1 in every friend pod.

What's with trannies' obsession with 3HRT?
wait, never mind, I already answered my own question

Yeah I'm one of those overly competitive people I've realized. Casual multiplayer matches would probably work better for my opponents if I played more experimentally. Fucking around doing something suboptimal is usually funny anyway.

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No, and you shouldn't because it's the quickest path to not playing that game anymore as a group.

The best approach is playing off meta or troll builds (ie frying pan or fists against swords) where you can balance between handicapping yourself, flexing and fun.

I can't believe I giggled at a bike cuck comic.

why are troons so eager to "convert" people? don't they always tell that they just "want to be left be" and "literally simply exist"?

Happens to the best of us

Many people can't cope with losing in any way, a it makes the experience miserable for everyone else. When they win, they get all high and mighty and proud of their success, but will ape if losing or blame everything else. They claim strategy and "playing to win" is part or the whole point, but are unable to do the critical thinking necessary to understand why they lsot or won.

I love taunting and banter in videogames, specially when the game has them baked into the mechanics. But what amkes it fun about fuckring around is that the player is either good enough to pull it off while winning or will find out, which is fun for the opponent. I think a lot about the fact that the reason I don't hate fighting games is that the friend into it was the meme man of the group: Yoshimitsu, Hakan, Dan the man, Faust, piranha plant. He always went for the weird pick and even tried to play "in character", and would laugh it off when you punished him or won. Meanwhile, I don't like playing mario kart because the friend who's good at it gets mad and complains a lot when he loses.

Bikecuck got kinda uncucked by all the mockery. I find him reasonable these days most of the time

nice try bikecuck

why are troons so eager to "convert" people?

That's how they spread and reproduce.

Because it's a cult.

posting the edit

Absolutely terrible recoloring. Do chuds have no standards?

“Self-inserting” is unironically a sign of low IQ and you cannot convince me otherwise.

No, but I have a friend of the kind that will ruin the fun for everyone if he gets his panties in a twist, and when he has reached that stage I become really mean.

So if you start talking HRT do you become an anime girl?

you cannot convince me otherwise.

Being closed to debate or pushback is a sign of low IQ.

Women don't think, anon.

Even chuds having standards is the only reason why racism exists.

t. cannot play games without self-inserting

You know his work isn't a science nor that prevalent on modern day psychology, there is no proof of the "unconsciousness" even exist.

But the progs told me that everyone has an "authentic" self which they need to discover through introspection in order to be happy. (Gender)

Were they lying?

Imagine introspecting a lot and finding a woman in there. Were it me, I'd probably hang myself.
Come to think of it, that explains a lot.

Why wouldn't you try to win when you're playing a game?

I did this irl, both ways.

Part of being a successful normalfag is being able to tryhard in games without it being obvious

Bike cuck is.... based?

he either gets really pissy when he loses (common) or he's one of the worst at any table hes in and is insufferable when he actually wins

Sailor Moon? So when's he coming out?

When he's not being a faggot he can be funny sometimes.

Men are allowed to be cute without trooning out.

liking Sailor Moon is gay

Let me guess, eating pussy is also gay? Gabagool!

They're dicks who prey on socially vulnerable people.

check out this compensating faggot

I think achievement systems have conditioned gamers into being more tryhard than ever. They will do things that they hate simply to get some trophy. And don't dare to stand in their way, trying to have some fun. It's such a strange mentality.

She's cute

Always

It's a dumb balance. If you play too serious you are a tryhard, if you don't play too serious enough you 'aren't trying.' I hate people.

Only if it makes things more fun.

For instance, if your lead is too big, it can be smart to deliberately handicap yourself a little and make it closer. Fucking around just to flex. You can still win afterwards, but you turned a boring game into an eventful one.

He's decent. You can tell he has low T and acts like a faggot but not an egregious one, just a self deprecating weak one.

I need to rape him

Faggot. Sailor Moon is the anime that popularized the Magical Girl genre among the male audience (not the manga, which was a lot girlier). It actively tried to appeal to men by combining magical girls with super sentai elements (protagonists are a team of heroes fighting against against a monster of the week), amping up the fanservice (skimpy outfits, transformation sequences) and making the fights way more physical than everything that came before it (but not the extent of later MG anime like Precure)

countless Goku and Sailor Moon porn parodies

It was great.

You're right but at the same time, the majority of people I know that like Sailor Moon ended up being faggots in one way or another, literally or figuratively. There's something in it that also appeals to *them*

Nah, you zoomer faggots are just inherently feminine.

remind me of the Turnskin plague in Age of Sigmar
when you listen to tales of Beastmen depredations around campfires you end up transforming into them

Absolutely not, but there are still people in my friend group who I cannot play any kind of game in even a semi-serious way, because they are unironically too low IQ. It becomes completely pointless, so we mostly watch stuff together.

I do usually try and win, but I don't like exploits or cheese strats because they are usually boring or not fun to play, even if they are more likely to result in winning, and I don't care if I lose as long as losing doesn't result in you straight up not being able play, like getting perma spawn camped or perma death or something like that.

no, you become a deformed fatass who still has the body proportions and facial structure of a man

no I'm usually the groups jester

My friends would rather get baked and browse Tiktok with some nobody Youtuber playing in the background. Trying to wrangle enough people to play a game at all is tough. Need to find some gamer homies

Back when I played with friends IRL you mean?
Not really, but I still had the lead in pretty much any vidya we played, without ever trying too hard. To be fair I'm not sure how other people took it, but I wasn't the kind of guy who threw on purpose literally ever.

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