Yes. That, and the fact that it is set up so that one cannot even talk about it without deeply annoying people who take it seriously, and one can't even think about it without talking about it unless one consciously chooses to reject it.
And that's an obnoxious thing; to me, every time I think about it, there's this thought pattern I go through of having to choose to reject the rules and not "play". (And it's structured so that, according to the rules, I am still playing no matter what I do, but I can cheat.) I can't really opt out of thinking about that, any more than I can opt out of remembering having seen certain online pictures. I don't like that.
I think I also had the misfortune to learn about it from people who took it at least somewhat seriously, insofar as being genuinely annoyed at "losing". And angry at someone who put up a sign saying, "You've just lost the Game" somewhere. (Or possibly I rolled a critical failure on my "detect ironic humor" roll when I was around them; I didn't have the best nonverbal-communication stats back then!)
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And that's an obnoxious thing; to me, every time I think about it, there's this thought pattern I go through of having to choose to reject the rules and not "play". (And it's structured so that, according to the rules, I am still playing no matter what I do, but I can cheat.) I can't really opt out of thinking about that, any more than I can opt out of remembering having seen certain online pictures. I don't like that.
I think I also had the misfortune to learn about it from people who took it at least somewhat seriously, insofar as being genuinely annoyed at "losing". And angry at someone who put up a sign saying, "You've just lost the Game" somewhere. (Or possibly I rolled a critical failure on my "detect ironic humor" roll when I was around them; I didn't have the best nonverbal-communication stats back then!)