High School... Were you a loser?

Stephanie Higgins · Post by **Stephanie Higgins** » Mon Jan 05, 2004 5:30 pm

Can you desribe the game?? It could be Go. Go is played alot by European people but overwhelmingly by Oriental people/

Stephanie

CJ · Post by CJ » Mon Jan 05, 2004 6:07 pm

Hi Jadhe,

Go:

CJ

Jessie · Post by **Jessie** » Mon Jan 05, 2004 6:11 pm

I know that Go is from Japan origainly (I belive) and it is very very old.

Jessie

Jadhe · Post by **Jadhe** » Mon Jan 05, 2004 6:13 pm

Oookay. After seeing that picture, it's not much like the game I played with my two cute (annoying!) cousins.

Stephanie Higgins · Post by **Stephanie Higgins** » Mon Jan 05, 2004 6:19 pm

OMG Is that your Goban???
Slotted Gobans are Awesome.

I have a table Goban but I am thinking of buying a new floor Goban soon.

Stephanie

Jadhe · Post by **Jadhe** » Mon Jan 05, 2004 6:29 pm

If that game is as good as Stephie makes it sound, I want to play it someday.

Jessie · Post by **Jessie** » Mon Jan 05, 2004 6:31 pm

I believe you can play it online at some free game sites like MSN games site.

Jessie

Stephanie Higgins · Post by **Stephanie Higgins** » Mon Jan 05, 2004 6:34 pm

the MSN and Yahoo go servers suck I suggest that if you want to play you download CGoban (yes it is free) or Dashn (free but in Korean).

Stephanie

Gaven McLaren · Post by **Gaven McLaren** » Tue Jan 06, 2004 4:55 am

That game reminds me of othello. Sorry for getting defensive. It something left over from being short and skinny as a child. That and I am just one of those people who love to debate. I am also a NASCAR fan sadly my favorite driver got suspended last year for a fight he did not start. As for games I play. There is chess (though I have no one to play with), Magic the gathering, D&D, Mechwarrior, and quite a few on my Xbox. As you can tell I like Role play games.

Jadhe · Post by **Jadhe** » Tue Jan 06, 2004 10:54 am

Well despite all, my favourite board games are still Monopoly and Trivial Pursuit.

CJ · Post by CJ » Tue Jan 06, 2004 11:10 am

Hi all,

Stephanie,

No, that isn't my Goban. I own a large, fold-out, magnetic Goban (in its own wooden case) that's not nearly as nice as the one pictured. Sadly, I rarely play--nobody I know plays Go and I haven't gone out hunting for adversaries. So I Imagine that I can be considered very weak at the game. But, my, the stones are pretty, though!

Gaven,

Yes, I agree, Othello is a lot of fun also. I've played that one much more often than Go (against a computer opponent most of the time, but still). If you like that, you might also enjoy Pente.

Just to get back on topic, here, I noticed that love of gaming seems to be an element common to many of us. I wonder to what extent our love of gaming, especially RPGs and one-on-one games, is rooted in the more or less solitary and withdrawn life we led while in high school. Did we find, in fantasy gaming and more intellectual pursuits, a path to a greater sense of our own worth? Just curious.

Love,
CJ

Jessie · Post by **Jessie** » Tue Jan 06, 2004 12:23 pm

I was just thinking (yes I do that sometimes) while reading the latest post on roleplaying games and those who played characters that female is a way of sort of being out with out really being out. Sort of the baby steps into getting to know who you really feel like.

Jessie

Carolynn · Post by **Carolynn** » Tue Jan 06, 2004 2:32 pm

CJ and Jessie, I think the anwer is "yes".

Stephanie Higgins · Post by **Stephanie Higgins** » Thu Jan 08, 2004 6:35 pm

Jessie wrote:I know that Go is from Japan origainly (I belive) and it is very very old.

Yeah It started in Japan, but today the strongest country in Korea sweeps the worlds last three years, I think.

Stephanie

Anita · Post by **Anita** » Sat Feb 07, 2004 2:55 pm

Hi All--
There is WAY too much to take in on one reading on this thread, but I did want to post on it.

I got by in high school, and on the outside, it looked like things were OK. I was in band, playing trumpet, and did school plays and such. I played tennis and ran cross-country. High grades, and lots of books read.

The sports I ended up doing were individual sports. What I really wanted to be good at were team sports, and I was a good enough athlete that I had the ability to do well at them.

What I wasn't good at was the bantering that goes on between boys in competitive situations. So no matter how much talent I had for these sports, I couldn't put it to use. I couldn't "defend" my ability to do well at basketball and baseball--I allowed the other boys to rattle me, shake my self-confidence, and you didn't get many chances to prove yourself.

So in non-pressure situations, I could beat varsity basketball guy at one on one at the playground. Put me in a tryout, and I couldn't handle the "trash talk" that went with showing who you were and what you could do.

This is the link to CDing for me--since lots of women run into these same problems in the work place, it's been easy to identify with them. Women try to get around this lack of bantering ability by trying to do the job so perfectly that no one can find fault with their work. But it hardly ever works out to do it that way.

An adult could have helped me deal with this, but none ever showed any interest in helping me. Again, women have a better chance to make it in male-dominated jobs if someone higher up takes an interest in helping them get by.

Anyway, it ate me up inside at that time, because I knew that I wasn't living up to what I was capable of. My parents couldn't understand this, and I didn't talk much about it. Neither of them had much respect for sports, but in my town, it was everything.

Anyway, in later years I took on this same beast by becoming a rock guitarist. I was able to handle the hazing and initiations better in my 30s, and actually learned how to perform well no matter who was trying to sabotage me. I've been really grateful for getting a second chance to learn how to do that.

I'll go back and read more posts on this thread. It is generally a painful subject for most of us.

A