# You're gonna hate me, but... **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [June 22, 2011, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-gonna-hate-me-but/586374 "2011-06-22T02:51:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![simster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/simster/32/1047_2.png) [@simster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/simster)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2011, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-gonna-hate-me-but/586374/21 "2011-06-23T05:11:05Z")
Thanks to mouse over text - I didn’t click the link. ---
**Author:** ![GreedySmurf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a698b9/32.png) [@GreedySmurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GreedySmurf)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2011, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-gonna-hate-me-but/586374/22 "2011-06-24T01:01:30Z")
Huh. Weird the things you miss out on. Apparently I’ve been winning the game for the last 36 years. 😃 And will probably, after 1 or 2 days, go back to winning for the rest of my life I suspect. ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2011, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-gonna-hate-me-but/586374/23 "2011-06-24T01:40:03Z")
I lost a game I didn’t even know I was playing the moment I found out I was playing it. Meh. Life goes on. I’m off to go play a game that I’m aware I’m playing and even having fun in the process. I’ll eventually win it too. ---
**Author:** ![Double\_Foolscap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/85e7bf/32.png) [@Double\_Foolscap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Double_Foolscap)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2011, 10:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-gonna-hate-me-but/586374/24 "2011-06-24T10:58:51Z")
Wow, it’s like a session with my more annoying roleplaying buddies all over again, only without the mutant killing and snacks. Are we going to start talking about how the cake is of dubious authenticity next? ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2011, 11:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-gonna-hate-me-but/586374/25 "2011-06-24T11:58:53Z")
> [@garygnu](#): > > To paraphrase WOPR, the only way to win the game is not to play. Everybody plays. You can’t not play The Game. Even if you don’t know you’re playing The Game, you are playing The Game. ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2011, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-gonna-hate-me-but/586374/26 "2011-06-24T23:19:52Z")
> [@cochrane](#): > > Everybody plays. You can’t not play The Game. Even if you don’t know you’re playing The Game, you are playing The Game. Are you still playing the game if you’ve lost? ---
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2011, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-gonna-hate-me-but/586374/27 "2011-06-24T23:34:17Z")
I’d love to come in here all moderator-y and everything, and tell everyone to stay on topic–but I don’t know what the topic is. However, I do think this forum would do better in The Game Room. ---
**Author:** ![Ura-Maru](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/51bf81/32.png) [@Ura-Maru](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ura-Maru)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2011, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-gonna-hate-me-but/586374/28 "2011-06-24T23:55:54Z")
> [@rachelellogram](#): > > This meme is still around? No. No it is not. – At a con two or three years ago, I was informed I’d lost the game by a message written in marker on a young woman’s bare stomach. If you’re going to lose, there are worse ways. ---
**Author:** ![Trion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ccd318/32.png) [@Trion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trion)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2011, 12:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-gonna-hate-me-but/586374/29 "2011-07-02T12:13:53Z")
> [@cochrane](#): > > Everybody plays. You can’t not play The Game. Even if you don’t know you’re playing The Game, you are playing The Game. According to the rules (as listed by Wikipedia): > [@](#): > > 3.Losses must be announced to at least one person (either by using a statement such as “I Lost The Game” or by alternative means). If I never announce a loss, I am not playing, or at least I am not playing by the rules which ammounts to the same thing. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2011, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-gonna-hate-me-but/586374/30 "2011-07-03T21:52:30Z")
> [@](#): > > Everybody plays. You can’t not play The Game. Even if you don’t know you’re playing The Game, you are playing The Game. I’m not. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-gonna-hate-me-but/586374.md?page=1)