March 27th, 2020, 06:04 AM
[QUOTE=yzb25;852405]As people play this game, they accumulate lots of baggage, like insecurities and weaknesses. Many of those insecurities are very easy to exploit in a way that seems natural.
One obvious example: if a player is just generally insecure and seems to look up to you, then you can really damage their reads by saying something like "I can't believe we're 24 hours into day 1 and all you've just got is some superficial read on a player obviously playing to their day 1 town meta. Pull your head out of your ass and take this game seriously ffs. You told me you wanted to get better." - this can be easily played off as a heated moment, depending on your persona.
You see some experienced players doing it a LOT. Not just neccesarily the above, but generally trying to get in people's head and figure out what their weaknesses are. But it's also easy to misinterpret one person's tactless remark as some deliberate, calculated attack on your psyche. If you're suspicious it's happening, try to find examples of your suspect doing it to others as opposed to you, because you can probably make a much more objective assessment of other's weaknesses.
I think the morality of it is very case-by-case, but you should generally have faith in people to overcome their problems. I've personally found it to be very beneficial to my self-awareness to have those sorts of plays used on me. However, just remember the game is supposed to be fun and you're not trying to scar people lmao.[/QUOTE]
I should also mention I've seen a lot of plays that were clearly just an outburst retroactively justified with nonsense reasoning. Don't be a dipshit. MM appears to be taking great caution to make that distinction.
Originally Posted by
yzb25
As people play this game, they accumulate lots of baggage, like insecurities and weaknesses. Many of those insecurities are very easy to exploit in a way that seems natural.
One obvious example: if a player is just generally insecure and seems to look up to you, then you can really damage their reads by saying something like "I can't believe we're 24 hours into day 1 and all you've just got is some superficial read on a player obviously playing to their day 1 town meta. Pull your head out of your ass and take this game seriously ffs. You told me you wanted to get better." - this can be easily played off as a heated moment, depending on your persona.
You see some experienced players doing it a LOT. Not just neccesarily the above, but generally trying to get in people's head and figure out what their weaknesses are. But it's also easy to misinterpret one person's tactless remark as some deliberate, calculated attack on your psyche. If you're suspicious it's happening, try to find examples of your suspect doing it to others as opposed to you, because you can probably make a much more objective assessment of other's weaknesses.
I think the morality of it is very case-by-case, but you should generally have faith in people to overcome their problems. I've personally found it to be very beneficial to my self-awareness to have those sorts of plays used on me. However, just remember the game is supposed to be fun and you're not trying to scar people lmao.
I should also mention I've seen a lot of plays that were clearly just an outburst retroactively justified with nonsense reasoning. Don't be a dipshit. MM appears to be taking great caution to make that distinction.
March 27th, 2020, 05:50 AM
As people play this game, they accumulate lots of baggage, like insecurities and weaknesses. Many of those insecurities are very easy to exploit in a way that seems natural.
One obvious example: if a player is just generally insecure and seems to look up to you, then you can really damage their reads by saying something like "I can't believe we're 24 hours into day 1 and all you've just got is some superficial read on a player obviously playing to their day 1 town meta. Pull your head out of your ass and take this game seriously ffs. You told me you wanted to get better." - this can be easily played off as a heated moment, depending on your persona.
You see some experienced players doing it a LOT. Not just neccesarily the above, but generally trying to get in people's head and figure out what their weaknesses are. But it's also easy to misinterpret one person's tactless remark as some deliberate, calculated attack on your psyche. If you're suspicious it's happening, try to find examples of your suspect doing it to others as opposed to you, because you can probably make a much more objective assessment of other's weaknesses.
I think the morality of it is very case-by-case, but you should generally have faith in people to overcome their problems. I've personally found it to be very beneficial to my self-awareness to have those sorts of plays used on me. However, just remember the game is supposed to be fun and you're not trying to scar people lmao.
As people play this game, they accumulate lots of baggage, like insecurities and weaknesses. Many of those insecurities are very easy to exploit in a way that seems natural.
One obvious example: if a player is just generally insecure and seems to look up to you, then you can really damage their reads by saying something like "I can't believe we're 24 hours into day 1 and all you've just got is some superficial read on a player obviously playing to their day 1 town meta. Pull your head out of your ass and take this game seriously ffs. You told me you wanted to get better." - this can be easily played off as a heated moment, depending on your persona.
You see some experienced players doing it a LOT. Not just neccesarily the above, but generally trying to get in people's head and figure out what their weaknesses are. But it's also easy to misinterpret one person's tactless remark as some deliberate, calculated attack on your psyche. If you're suspicious it's happening, try to find examples of your suspect doing it to others as opposed to you, because you can probably make a much more objective assessment of other's weaknesses.
I think the morality of it is very case-by-case, but you should generally have faith in people to overcome their problems. I've personally found it to be very beneficial to my self-awareness to have those sorts of plays used on me. However, just remember the game is supposed to be fun and you're not trying to scar people lmao.