wind ridge
More than 600 FFA games online in just the last few months (I think I have played more games online in a single week than I have over the board in my whole life, and I now have played enough hours online to equal the time it takes to complete 2 of those over the board games). The point of this is that some of my favorite games are not those in which I beat grandmasters or chained four kills in a sixty second turn but instead were when I finished second cheering on my opponent as they finished me off, they friend request me and so I am able to see their stats and find it was their first ever online win. This has happened at least four or five times. Awesome. They probably don’t yet know what they did right or that it took two or three other crazies grinding each other and me up to line them up for the win, but they knew how to push their advantage with their troop lead and sometimes that plus a basic understanding of end game strategy is all it takes. Cheering them on and giving them a positive experience that maybe gets them to come back and play again almost makes me feel okay about all the times I’ve had to back stab an ally and grab their cards. I really do feel bad about killing you for your cards (Canadian “Sorry” emote), (“but I need your cards”). Of course I feel even worse for the times I failed the kill, but that’s not the point, the point is sometimes I love losing at Risk. So if you’re in a game and some idiot is cheering for you with all their emotes while you’re bashing their brains in, it’s probably me and sure I’ll be embarrassed when I see your rank and realize you probably have thousands of hours of experience, and were not impressed with my excellent emote usage, but not embarrassed enough to stop because one of these times it’s going to be someone’s first win again and I will love losing that game.
When do you love losing at Risk?
unborn delta
cerulean tide