The Game
 

I lost.

Who plays?

I just lost the game.

dammit. i always lose.

Might as well post a link for those who aren't hip. / lost

Winning is possible.

Only if you die before you think about it.

My daughter won the game.

Explain yourself. Because of my current conclusion, that's just terrible! :(

I agree, I've lost the game about 40 times since clicking on this thread.

1. I told my daughter about the game
2. She says, "Like CANDYLAND????" She's four, come on.
3. I say, "Yeah, EXACTLY like Candyland", after which, I suggest that we play Candyland.
4. We play Candyland and I TOTALLY let her win.
5. She exclaims with much glee, "I won, I won THE GAME, Pappa Daddy"
6. I reply, "Yes. Yes. You. Did."

And that is how my four-year-old daughter won The Game.

The end.

"I let her win." :rolleyes:

Sore loser.

Aww that's cute. Be sure to keep letting her win, too. Nobody ever did when I was a kid and it was the first game I cheated at :D.

That Candy Cane Forest gets a bit hairy this time of the year.

Whew, you're tellin' me.

'winning' the game is as simple as grasping the simplicity that wanting nothing provides you with everything.

also nice to see Conan posting again :thumb:

I lost the game for the first time since early 2009. I was pitching no-hitters left and right.

That's not winning the game though, that's simply not losing the game. It's impossible to win the game unless you die before you think about it.

I lost the game, and will every time I come into this thread!

Apparantly this has gone over my head up to now and it still does, to be honest.

I enjoyed reading up about it though, just makes my mind scream "WHATTHEFUCK" over and over again.

Erm, yes. Quite.

Ha. This is awesome. I just ****in lost.

And glad to see you back, Conan. You best be sticking around.

Damn it I just lost the game.

I'm not going anywhere. You'd all be lost without me.

*parties*

I used to play with my friends. It gets old real fast :finger:.

People always get really angry whenever I announce that I lost.

Because that means they just all lost, too.

Yeah I know. But you'd think they could just mildly say "dammit" or something. I always get yelled at.

Once on halloween my friend said he lost the game and this random girl across the street turned around and shouted "FUCK YOU"

Lol, that's epic. When you've just lost the game you are a time bomb to everyone around you. The best part is they can't even cover their ears because doing so would indicate that they lost anyway. Some people I'm around will just know when you've lost and pre-emptively admit their defeat as well. It's mind boggling.

Also, I lost.

I was winning until I read this thread...apparently.

exactly. so long as your willing to accept that you've permanently 'lost' the game you're always 'winning'. same as gaining everything by wanting nothing. it's a perpetual paradox.

though for the sake of semantics and the time i spent in school 'the game' isn't actually a proper game. it's more of a psycho-social activity/challenge.

a proper game offers a series of challenges that can be overcome by the player first through intuition and secondly through chance. 'the game' doesn't provide that and is more of a mental gymnastics / pseudo-philosophical exercise.

This is one of the most retarded things I've ever witnessed on the internet.

^ You wouldn't be saying that if you were winning!

Quite true...
But I wouldn't be losing if I were playing.

try having a conversation about 'the game' with someone who takes it seriously in person. this thread is actually quite sane considering.

lol... there are actual people out there that take it seriously?

I thought (naively, apparently) that this was just some ridiculous internet thing that was perpetrated by the same people who actually say "lol" in person. I'm probably not hedging my bets by assuming those folks are a significant minority...

It's not an interenet thing persay. I think it actually predates the internet.

I say 'lol' and 'btw' in person. I'm not even sure why, it's really fucking stupid come to think of it.

Ah.. just seems so internety for some reason.
I guess I could at least blame the internet for its pervasiveness then? I'm not letting the internet get off scot-free.

Believe me, if I could fake a laugh effectively just by saying lol in person, I would do that. But I'm relegated to just making it apparent when I think someone is unfunny.
In the opposite scenario, I will laugh.

I do use it sarcastically about 95% of the time. If someone cracks a bad joke or something, I'll be like, "lol". :rolleyes:

Yeah, it does predate the internet. My older siblings who are old said they heard of it when they were in high school and not through any internetty source.