Donking, and why it is suddenly a big concern for the community

[Loner]

Among all players, the Win-Loss percentage is 50%.

So, Pokemon players are only happy half the time, aggregate-wise. :tongue:

Not all players need to win to have fun, and even those that place a greater emphasis on winning will admit that that's certainly not the only thing that matters.

---------- Post added 01/23/2011 at 01:36 AM ----------

That's not having fun playing the game. It's having fun winning.

Playing a game is almost a form of conversation with someone in itself. Donking is saying, "hi, I don't care (even the slightest), okay, good-bye" after being introduced.

So you're not refusing to reply to me anymore?

What you say details how you feel about players that play these types of decks, it does not make what you true in any way, there is no support behind what you say. You're entitled to your opinions on things, you are not entitled to take out your frustrations on people who play this deck, by implying that they are being disrespectful, calling them bad players, treating them worse for it. You should not take it personally when some follows the rules and plays the game by the rules. The written rules of the game, not the one you feel it should have.

I'll give two examples of this sort of behavior I have encountered.
I let one of my friends use my donk deck at a cities. He quit about a year ago and wanted to borrow a deck, this was the only one I felt he could reasonably do well with, which he did(4-1, missed cut on tiebreaks). During one of his games after he donks the opponent his opponent calls him "***" for playing the deck. Now weather or not you feel that the player actually playing the donk deck was "being ***," the other player is the only one who is breaking any rules.

Second, I am a smoker. One day during my senior year at highschool an underclassmen who I didn't know had a problem with my smoking(not sure what it was) and started giving me crap about it. I wasn't doing anything which the rules did not allow, and yet he had a pressing need to harass me about it. I was a bit taken back by this. My friends who were around me took offense and like him reacted stupidly in a situation which did not warrant it.

You can change anything about your personality that you don't see as a possitive. That's what makes the human spirit so powerful.

1) I do not see my competitiveness as a negative, I do not see other people lack of competitiveness as a negative. If you have a problem with my personality that's your problem to deal with not mine.

2) There are MANY psychologists, who have spent their entire careers focused on the research and study of personality, that would disagree with this. There are many that would agree with you. But, don't state what is clearly a matter of opinion as a scientific fact. Especially when said opinion in addition to not being generally accepted by the scientific community, is followed by nothing to support it.