Losing is fun.

[Nuclear Catastrophe]

A great motto that needs to be adopted by EfU :)

Enjoy your defeats.  Most of them are a case of bad luck (those crits/seemingly impossible will saves that were made!), bad timing, or bad decisions.  Always be improving, and hopefully you'll be that bit luckier next time.

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[Teeth in a Bowl]

Losing is only fun if, like in Dwarf Fortress, everyone and everything goes down in a flood of magma.

[el groso]

amen

[Pool]

If it made me laugh, or it was perma-death, then I'm usually okay with it. Otherwise, it'll bother me that I have to pick up the pieces to resume the character's activities.

I think Jaydemoon's Chosen of Gruumsh murdering me, with my last words being 'WE MAKE FUCK' in an attempt to draw him off of Faye was a pretty good way to die. :u

[Yes I Can Be A Tree]

...and don't be afraid to try things where you know you will probably lose.

This. This. This.

[Ironside]

Sometimes losing spectacularly is miles more entertaining than succeeding.

[Jasede]

I must be having more fun than all of you combined then! :P

[efuincarnate]

No way! I am having a blast!!

:P

[Joe Desu]

Naturally.

[lovethesuit]

It goes against everything I'm used to, but I must grudgingly agree.

It's just getting myself to act on it that's the key.

My last character died rather abruptly but I think it was a good death, and I'm glad that the other players involved got something out of it.

[The Old Hack]

Winning can be fun.

Winning all the time isn't fun. It's boring.

Ergo, losing is a prerequisite for having fun.

(Probably there is some sort of hole in that logic, but what the hey, I believe it.)

[Somniis]

It's all about balance imo... Too much of one flavour can turn us into undead turnips.

I read this short-story by Borges recently called, "The Lottery in Babylon". Some aspects of the story describe a culture's growing obsession with self-mutilation and extreme sports.. in an effort to have meaningful life experiences while confined inside a perpetually emprisoning society.

It got me thinking of aspects of EFU. Basically, how we find all these crazy ways to 'Escape'.

http://www.class.uh.edu/mcl/faculty/armstrong/cityofdreams/texts/babylon.html

Having said that... SC's challenging comment about players taking risks even when you know you'll likely lose... is certainly something I feel has broken me out of my own shell of gaming expectations.... I'm still taking baby steps away from my Ego's stifling program of having to win the unwinnable... I know we can't win at EFU and it's silly to attempt to; and that watching stories unfold in all their glorious and inglorious details is part of the entertainment.

Agreeing to lose has definitely taken me to some unthinkably cool new places.

[sylvyrdragon]

Losing can be fun... losing all the time is not.

[Mort]

Losers.

[Vlaid]

You can't lose when you always intended to do that thing that you died doing.