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Bit on Sirlin seems a bit nattery and multi-biased. I\'m going to merge the two arguments into one statement mentioning contention. Feel free to re-edit if people dislike th change.
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Example on Sirlin seems a bit nattery and multi-biased. I\\\'m going to merge the two arguments into one statement mentioning contention. Feel free to re-edit if people dislike th change.
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* Several years back, a tournament-level player by the name of [[PromotedFanboy David Sirlin]] wrote an article called \
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* Several years back, a tournament-level player by the name of [[PromotedFanboy David Sirlin]] wrote an article called \\\"[[http://www.sirlin.net/articles/playing-to-win-part-1.html Playing To Win]],\\\" the upshot of which is, if you\\\'re not playing a game at a cut-throat competitive level, you\\\'re not worthy to talk about it or venture an opinion on it. It has a few thought provoking points, but the arrogance of the piece kind of eats away at that.
** After two and a half years of being horribly mischaracterized for pointing out the same things about [[{{Scrub}} scrubs]] that the [=TVTropes=] article does, he proceeded to post up a follow-up labeled [[http://www.sirlin.net/articles/playing-to-win-part-3-not-playing-to-win.html Not Playing To Win]] which called out StopHavingFunGuys for... pretty much exactly the same thing we call them out for. He\\\'s still viewed so badly around these parts that [[HateDumb the above paragraph remains part of the page]].
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* Several years back, a tournament-level player by the name of David Sirlin wrote an article called \\\"[[http://www.sirlin.net/articles/playing-to-win-part-1.html Playing To Win]],\\\" which contrasted [[{{Scrub}} scrubs]] and [[{{tournament play}} tournament players]] with little middle ground. The article made some good points, but the tone made it the poster-child of {{Stop Having Fun Guys}} for years. More recently, he followed it up with [[http://www.sirlin.net/articles/playing-to-win-part-3-not-playing-to-win.html Not Playing To Win]], a limited defense of casual play.
** After two and a half years of being horribly mischaracterized for pointing out the same things about [[{{Scrub}} scrubs]] that the [=TVTropes=] article does, he proceeded to post up a follow-up labeled [[http://www.sirlin.net/articles/playing-to-win-part-3-not-playing-to-win.html Not Playing To Win]] which called out StopHavingFunGuys for... pretty much exactly the same thing we call them out for. He\\\'s still viewed so badly around these parts that [[HateDumb the above paragraph remains part of the page]].
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* Several years back, a tournament-level player by the name of David Sirlin wrote an article called \\\"[[http://www.sirlin.net/articles/playing-to-win-part-1.html Playing To Win]],\\\" which contrasted [[{{Scrub}} scrubs]] and [[{{tournament play}} tournament players]] with little middle ground. The article made some good points, but the tone made it the poster-child of {{Stop Having Fun Guys}} for years. More recently, he followed it up with [[http://www.sirlin.net/articles/playing-to-win-part-3-not-playing-to-win.html Not Playing To Win]], a limited defense of casual play.
