Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-99.73.35.159-20181005201301/@comment-99.73.35.159-20181011230449

I'm not actually competitive about this game. I just enjoy the graphics/quality. The use of TT to get a few players higher up on the leader board struck me as something over the top for this particular community and likely to catch the attention of Mytona. I did not know that either coincidentally or in response to that activity that MT would shut down TT.

I believe that small things in our everyday lives often have parallels into larger issues playing out in the world.

Your comment about money/buying your way into the leadership board is fascinating. The perception (and reality) that dark money drives American politics is what has contributed to the tribalism negatively effecting the US. The belief that "the system has been rigged against" them is one of the factors usually cited as to why some supporters in a particular group seem to ignore facts. It doesn't matter as long as they get the outcome they desire/feel entitled to receive because in the past the system unfairly rewarded others.

I find it interesting that in games that have a younger player base, the response to 'do you think what you are doing is cheating' is more likely to yield bold admits to cheating along with gaming is all about cheating -which is another subject alltogether. The younger base is more open to owning their actions. The older base either rationalizes that it must not be cheating, wants to change the subject/deflect or stops short of owning/admitting its cheating while giving reasons for why they do it.

Many posters don't care whether someone cheated or not and that is perfectly fine too. I don't really care if other people speed when they drive -until they hit something or someone. Just an observation.