I’m talking in the context of the “capitalist rules”. If you say the aforementioned sentence, you remove the responsibility of the player by dismissing the fact that the winner makes the rules.
PS: Doesn’t work for every context: if the player aims to change the rules because he doesn’t like them, he might see winning as a way to change them. “You either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villain” I guess…
You are literally defining the meaning of the phrase. That is not a shower thought.
Two hundred up votes, dont hate the player hate the game
Hate the upvoters lol
Well, I thought of it while taking a shower so…
Yes.
Just like “it is what it is”, that statement is a “thought terminating cliche” and that is what it’s doing.
Is labeling a phrase a “thought-terminating cliche”, a thought-terminating cliche?
Well I’d say it’s a hate-terminating cliche. As in, “Hey let’s stop thinking about how much we hate that guy, when he’s trying to feed his family”.
“Trying to feed your family” does not excuse everything. In fact I would say “they are just trying to feed their family” is almost on par with “it is what it is” as a thought terminating cliché.
Yes, but the game is the problem. That’s why the ecological footprint is problematic, it pushes the responsibility towards individuals rather than changing laws.
I always reply that I hate both.
So you disagree with the saying? Why?
Because it implies that there are just two options while I think there is a third.
I don’t think it implies that. It just says “this is a better option than that”
Exactly. This or that. Two options.
It occurs to me that a great many sayings exist for the speaker to self justify their own actions
Yup, that’s why people say it. “I’m an arse hole, but what do you expect?”
The player’s job is to play optimally; the rules dictate what is and isn’t optimal play. Not just limited to capitalism, this concept is a big part of game theory.
Yeah, this phrase makes way more sense within the context of a game or game theory. For me, it goes back to fighting games or sports. People play to win in those settings. The rules are heavily defined, and the players must abide. These other examples are people misusing the phrase.
My first thought after hearing that saying 20-something years ago was “the player perpetuates the game.”
If people refuse to play, there is no game to hate.
If people refuse to play, they die. The game evolved over millions of years.
There are many types of game. The saying is specifically designed to perpetuate one particular game.
Learn to recognize systemic problems rather than personnel problems.
Playing the game is a choice.
Working to pay rent and stuff is a choice?
Duh. You could just lie down and die, but here you are choosing to eat and drink and sleep.
You silly goose, so fixated on surviving.
Referring to yourself as a “player” usually implies that your goal is to outdo everyone else, not just get by.
The one referring to themselves as a player, in this situation, is usually screwing over the person they’re talking to.
The ones whose contribution is figuring out whom to hate are the ones you gotta watch out for.
Everything is a choice.
True freedom is the realisation that you can literally do anything.
Is your heart beating a choice?
In line with another phrase I hate, " If you can’t take me at my worst you don’t deserve me at my best". It is just the person saying it trying to cover their awful behavior.
It’s not related to that phrase at all
It’s related in the sense YaksDC would rather hate it than try to figure out why people say it
These are the shower thoughts I have. Got a whole ass manifesto cooking up there.
The definition of fascism at the end of the day is “fuck you, I have mine, stop complaining because you are a loser”. Yes, fascism is the extreme end point of that view but ultimately that is what fascism is. Who cares what is fair, the losers are losers and the winners are winners and fascists are 0% interested in examining that any closer no matter how arbitrary or stupid the set of rules that determined the winners or losers are.
I hate the phrase “don’t hate the player, hate the game”. I’ll hate the player too lol. You know what playing a sport where bad behavior is technically possible and in the best interests of a player to do, but a player refuses to do it because of a love of the sport and the desire to be a good opponent? It is called good sportsmanship. Sports/videogames are miserable experiences when it is just ruthlessly competitive people playing who will exploit any advantage, fair or not and have zero interest in sportsmanship. Is there a broken mechanic or rule? These types of people will exploit it over and over and over and over again and just keep saying “don’t hate the player hate the game” even though it is them, the player, actively making a choice to make the experience miserable for everyone else.
I think you just made that definition of fascism up.
We are all playing by being here.
I think we should flip the board but I’m not going to die holding my breath.
Oh bummer turns out our daily meals were coming from some of those pieces on the game board. We flipped the board, and now we can’t eat.
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