The Game - (Now that you've lost it, click here anyways!)

[)O( Hytegia )O(]

Heh.
If you've clicked here, you've just been initiated into one of the most deeply philisophical phenominons on the internet and in real life... Or:
"The Game"

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The rules of the Game are fairly simple:
1) You are always playing the Game.
2) If you think about the Game, you lose the Game.
3) You have 30 minutes of downtime to forge about the Game before you can lose it again.
4) You can only win the Game by not thinking about the Game.

So congradulations : you've just lost the Game that you've been winning up untill the point you realized you were playing it.
xD

Now LeagueOfReason, now that we've already lost the Game, let's discuss it.

 

[borrofburi]

Re: The Game - (Now that you've lost it, click here anyways!

I find "the game" to be an odd meme: the very act of "playing" both causes the "player" "pain" or at least frustration, and the very act of that "pain" serves to further cement the neural pathways reinforcing that you are "playing" and indeed increasing the ferociousness with which the "player" realizes (s)he's "lost"; it's another of those unfortunately awful positive feedback loops, like depression.

There is however hope: don't care. The instant you stop associating "I've lost!" with anger and frustration and "loud" thoughts, the instant that voice quiets, and eventually it gets so quiet you aren't playing anymore. Oh people claim you are, but I've always found it more than a little pretentious that they dare tell me what's in my mind, and I long ago realized that someone so egotistically overconfident probably doesn't have anything valuable to say (at least in any situation where they meet that description).

 

[MRaverz]

Re: The Game - (Now that you've lost it, click here anyways!

Urgh, I'd built up a pretty decent winning streak. Best tell facebook I lost.

 

[borrofburi]

Re: The Game - (Now that you've lost it, click here anyways!

There is however hope: don't care. The instant you stop associating "I've lost!" with anger and frustration and "loud" thoughts, the instant that voice quiets, and eventually it gets so quiet you aren't playing anymore. Oh people claim you are, but I've always found it more than a little pretentious that they dare tell me what's in my mind, and I long ago realized that someone so egotistically overconfident probably doesn't have anything valuable to say (at least in any situation where they meet that description).

Or, in short: I'm not playing, you can too. Oh I'm sure I'll get flack, people will tell me I'm breaking the rules, etc. But what does it mean to be "playing" this "game"? I am rather certain that the "playing" is defined as having the neural pathway that associates "the game" with "I've lost". I don't have that connection, therefore I'm not playing; if you insist I am, then what precisely does it mean to be "playing" "the game"?

 

[PatrickTheScienceGuy]

Re: The Game - (Now that you've lost it, click here anyways!

OH NO I WAS WONDERING HOW LONG IT WOULD TAKE FOR THIS TO ARRIVE!!!!! IT ANNOYS ME SO MUCH

 

[)O( Hytegia )O(]

Re: The Game - (Now that you've lost it, click here anyways!

The Game's a set standard that is all-inclusive. The concept of the Game is that you're winning it untill you realize that you're playing - and then you lose.

I find it more than fun to overly-dramatoze my losses though. In lunch one day, I was sitting at the table stage-crying when my friend asked me what was wrong. Then I was: "... I- I just- I lost the Game!!!"


I think it was made by a bunch of Harvard Students in 1972 or so, when they decided to win a Game that can always be played, but never won nor ended. Simply by thinking about it, you lose it.
But you don't really have to care about losing it to the point of getting actually angry.

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@PTSG-
=P
It had to happen sometime. Better now then later, I suppose.

 

[[Q] Biscuit [Q]]

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I find that The Game is a quite interesting idea. I've just lost it though, so now I'm going to go rage and consume deadly large amounts of food. Tally-ho!

 

[)O( Hytegia )O(]

Re: The Game - (Now that you've lost it, click here anyways!

If anyone has lost reference - that is my friend from school.
xD
He's a great thinker, and when he grows up he wants to be a Pastery.

 

[e2iPi]

Re: The Game - (Now that you've lost it, click here anyways!

What game?

 

[Squawk]

Re: The Game - (Now that you've lost it, click here anyways!

I win the game mk2 every time I lose the game mk1

Win win for me

 

[)O( Hytegia )O(]

Re: The Game - (Now that you've lost it, click here anyways!

The problem is that everyone in the world is included once you become aware of the Game's existance. xD

There's no escape but ignoring it. And, even then, you lose it.

 

[TheFearmonger]

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Hey, I remember playing this when i was three

 

[Case]

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Yawn. Much harder not to think of a pink elephant once you read these words. See?

 

[infrared]

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http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/467574

 

[Sariel]

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Been here roughly 3 days and I already lost the game. Ugh. >.>

 

[Jotto999]

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Borrofburi, I know what you mean. For a few years in school I remember this being a big thing. Every day, without fail (IMO with fail every time but..), someone would walk into the room and shout about 'the game', thus making everyone 'lose' it. I have always found it both interesting and annoying.

Perhaps you can't "beat" the game, but you can slowly kill it. As you said, just stop caring about it. Verbal viruses can't spread if you just don't say anything about it. Everyone in my daily life has basically agreed with this, and I rarely hear of it anymore.

 

[SimonSS]

Re: The Game - (Now that you've lost it, click here anyways!

I recall rule 3 with a slight addition, whereby if you heard/read/etc someone announce that they lost the game, or if they even merely talk about the game (eg like this thread), you didn't actually lose yourself but also had 30 mins to forget about it. So you have to randomly think about it or have an otherwise indirect association with something causing you to think about it, in order to actually lose.

Otherwise chaos would ensue every time someone said they lost!

Edit: oh this is because there's an extra rule stating that if you lost the game, you are required to announce it.

Maybe just an Australian thing? Are we all cheating? :lol:

 

[)O( Hytegia )O(]

Re: The Game - (Now that you've lost it, click here anyways!

I recall rule 3 with a slight addition, whereby if you heard/read/etc someone announce that they lost the game, or if they even merely talk about the game (eg like this thread), you didn't actually lose yourself but also had 30 mins to forget about it. So you have to randomly think about it or have an otherwise indirect association with something causing you to think about it, in order to actually lose.

Otherwise chaos would ensue every time someone said they lost!

Edit: oh this is because there's an extra rule stating that if you lost the game, you are required to announce it.

Maybe just an Australian thing? Are we all cheating? :lol:

You lose - then have 30 minutes to forget about it.

Also: the fun is in the massive chaos, considering the fact that AS SOON AS YOU THINK ABOUT IT, YOU LOSE. Then you must announce it. Then everyone around you immediately loses aswell.
It's a terribly chaotic practice here in America - but what do we know? Our country is in the shitter already enough. This shouldn't be suprising in the least.