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In reply to the discussion: We just witnessed the worst aspect of soccer - *spoilers* [View all]hunter
(38,264 posts)Pretty good too, second or third, sometimes fourth ranking, we try harder.
Yet my physically and intellectually reckless younger brother would destroy me in chess and he never joined a chess club. He's successful in a way I was not. And in his youth he was an occasional bone-breaking terror in physical blood sports. He plays a damned fine game of golf too.
I introduced our oldest kid to chess, and my wife and I encouraged high school sports, with success, but oldest kid decided it was all boring, graduated from prestigious college, got married, owns house of higher value than our own in left coast urban California, travels the world before age thirty.
My wife and I bought our first house in our twenties, but it was in the rustbelt Midwest and cost a little less than $8,000. We live in a California place where I sometimes bitch about gang graffiti on our back wall as I paint it over.
Our children, nephews, and nieces are all ferocious, in games and the "real" world, and I think that's what the U.S.A. is supposed to be about -- that the next generation does better than you.
My father-in-law was born in a tent in a Mexican farm labor camp a few hundred meters from a small orchard my parents used to own. My wife and I, who met having escaped rural and suburban California hell to the Big City, knew nothing of this until we were irrevocably engaged.
I don't have anything nice to say about games or game theory.
The universe doesn't care.
My ancestors were largely pacifist religious dissidents who came to the U.S.A. in the eighteenth and nineteenth century because they didn't want to play those games, and the remaining were just out ahead of the English hangman.