Cylons are mean...and so am I?
Jan. 30th, 2006 03:12 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
hwangoSo, I watched the Battlestar Galactica miniseries today. Damn, that's bleak. Clearly, it was "Horrible Things Happen to Imaginary People" weekend again, what with that, the latest batch of Something Positive strips, Ghost in the Shell: SIC with people so desperate that they turned to suicide bombings, and of course there was an episode of Fullmetal Alchemist, and that always counts towards the weekend "Imaginary People Suffering" quota.
As far as being mean myself goes, I'm feeling a twinge of guilt regarding my latest game of Carcassonne. My opponent was constructing a city, and put his builder on its second tile. I positioned my large knight to steal it from him. He retaliated with his own large knight and then, soon after, a second small one. All he needed was a tile with 4 city edges to unite that little arrangement, so he started adding tiles to the outside edges with wild abandon, hoping for an enormous city of doom that would bring him crushing victory. The problem is, the game only has 7 tiles with 4 city edges...and I got the last one a few tiles later. He didn't notice that it was the last eligible piece, and kept adding to the city. I thought about telling him that it was too late to be able to finish the thing, but reasoned that the best strategy from an I-want-to-win-this-game point of view was let him throw away pieces on a hopeless pipedream while I did things elsewhere that actually mattered. He threw away 10 more tiles on the thing and I ended up beating him 311 to 130, but now I feel sort of bad about it. Still, I suppose I would have felt even worse if I told him it was hopeless and later turned out to have forgotten about a piece that would finish it after all. Ah, well, at least it's only a game.
As far as being mean myself goes, I'm feeling a twinge of guilt regarding my latest game of Carcassonne. My opponent was constructing a city, and put his builder on its second tile. I positioned my large knight to steal it from him. He retaliated with his own large knight and then, soon after, a second small one. All he needed was a tile with 4 city edges to unite that little arrangement, so he started adding tiles to the outside edges with wild abandon, hoping for an enormous city of doom that would bring him crushing victory. The problem is, the game only has 7 tiles with 4 city edges...and I got the last one a few tiles later. He didn't notice that it was the last eligible piece, and kept adding to the city. I thought about telling him that it was too late to be able to finish the thing, but reasoned that the best strategy from an I-want-to-win-this-game point of view was let him throw away pieces on a hopeless pipedream while I did things elsewhere that actually mattered. He threw away 10 more tiles on the thing and I ended up beating him 311 to 130, but now I feel sort of bad about it. Still, I suppose I would have felt even worse if I told him it was hopeless and later turned out to have forgotten about a piece that would finish it after all. Ah, well, at least it's only a game.
