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 Posted: Sun Aug 08, 2004 11:47 am
I've been playing my new card game recently online. And losing. A lot. But I kept playing... and playing. The losing started to bother me. But I kept going. Just didn't want to believe that they were that much better than me in this game that I believed to be so balanced...
Every time I lost, it'd be a battle to get back up and play again, since I'd often lose the same way...
It got depressing at one point. I still went back. Is it determination? Is it just refusal to accept the inadequacy complex that torments an ice elementa's mind?
Does this happen to anyone else?
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Posted: Sun Aug 08, 2004 12:19 pm
Perhaps your not using your elementa's true nature. Ice though fragile is structured well, if an iceberg is big enough nothing can damage it. Then Ice elementa have a second facet...cold and calculating. You notice how I time my moves in duel masters?
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Posted: Sun Aug 08, 2004 1:17 pm
you play becuase your determined to win, you know your up to par win but your not winning so you aim to prove it. its happend to me i think it has somthing to do with the want to win, when u want it you lose, you have to flow like water and just let it happen.
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Posted: Sun Aug 08, 2004 2:01 pm
Yes, I've noticed that when I want to win too much, I play badly in nearly all games. It's actually more true in Duel Masters than anything else, since the tactic I have finally learnt is necessary to deal with the way they beat me, is to leave them unharmed for a long period of time.
Their forces get 'tired out' trying to get me down, and I can then reverse the situation for a relatively easy win.
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Posted: Sun Aug 08, 2004 5:39 pm
Reis that sounds like determination to me. As and Ice my self I know what you mean but you may be as Jareth said using the right form of a win. But I must admit that you DM deck stragety sounds like a really big iceberg once again like Jareth siad. It may be possible that your just not having a good day. I have them some times as well where I lose to things that I should or no matter how much I try I cann't win. On the other hand I have the super days where I never lose at any thing and nothing can beat me but most of the time I fall in the middle. Maybe the win/lose thing I suffer is the same as you.
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Posted: Sun Aug 08, 2004 6:51 pm
Determination?? I always assumed I was just stubborn...
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Posted: Mon Aug 09, 2004 2:01 pm
Moo_sama Determination?? I always assumed I was just stubborn... yes moo sama, detemintion is just the nice way of saying stubborn, i should know dang earth element of me
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Posted: Wed Aug 11, 2004 6:13 pm
Gash Rain Moo_sama Determination?? I always assumed I was just stubborn... yes moo sama, detemintion is just the nice way of saying stubborn, i should know dang earth element of me Ahhhh, so THIS explains why I keep playing tetris at level nine high five.
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Posted: Wed Aug 11, 2004 6:19 pm
"I don't think I have that much determination..."
He pauses.
"Wait... there was that one tree..."
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Posted: Sun Aug 15, 2004 5:54 am
*bonks Geren*
Silly Brother..behave.
It's just stubborness...not an inadequacy complex..if it were you wouldn't play because you'd say..
"Well...why play people who just play stuff to win and have no style...i don't need to prove anything"
Or something like that...-.-
Um..right yeah..
As for me.
I'm nto stubborn...that's all Reis and Geren and all ya all determined people..I'm easy going. ^^ and stuff and stuff.. 4laugh
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Posted: Sun Aug 15, 2004 12:48 pm
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Posted: Sun Aug 15, 2004 6:22 pm
Well, I don't know about determined, but...
If it feels like something ought to be possible then I will keep trying at it...
(Understands much the level 9 tetris thing... Done that so many times... )
Its kinda like: my calculations aren't wrong so why ain't this working? Then you proceed to check and check again...
~shrugs mentally~
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Posted: Tue Aug 17, 2004 9:17 am
yes you are brother...determined to eat everything in sight! stare lol
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Posted: Wed Sep 22, 2004 9:41 pm
Dana C Scott Well, I don't know about determined, but... If it feels like something ought to be possible then I will keep trying at it... (Understands much the level 9 tetris thing... Done that so many times... ) Its kinda like: my calculations aren't wrong so why ain't this working? Then you proceed to check and check again... ~shrugs mentally~ i have to agree, you have this really neat idea planted in your head saying "oh im so gonna kick his a**" but you wind up losing over and over and over, and then you get frustrated because you cannot accomplish what you wanted to do and i will admit a little inadequet and what you cannot achieve. i think its this inadequcey (sp? srry) that causes determination to get back to it, cause instead of havint that "kick his a**" motive, you go to "i can only kick his a** if i try...even if i beat him once...." if you think a glacier, there solid and strong, it could be that which makes you try so much, plus like a glacier, there is a even larger, tougher and stronger ice below the surface of the water, which makes you beleive you have the ability to kick his a** regardless of how many times your beat 3nodding
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Posted: Thu Sep 23, 2004 3:57 am
Thanks, Sage. You actually made me feel a bit understood, especially since I spent most of last night trying to figure out something about them. Not why they beat me, but rather, why it is so important to them to win.
I feel as if they play the way they play out of fear. They hide behind a particular wall of destruction that is hard to break through, and then tell you that you need to improve yourself when you lose against them (truthfully, though, you'd end up losing the same way, so I don't see why they say that).
I think I want to be one of those people who doesn't give in to that fear, and I also probably wish that I could get them to see that you don't have to be so afraid. I wonder if that is the slight gentleness of my wind part that causes this odd compassion.
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