Betty by Gary Delainey and Gerry Rasmussen for February 08, 2020

Junior’s panel 2 response sounds like how participation trophies came to be….

You don’t hear much from your brother, do you?

Video games are much like that, too, Junior (which is why I always play alone).

Why is it that there are roughly 10 classic board games that everybody owns, or knows somebody who does, but no others? Imagine if that was the case with novels, CDs, or DVDs.

“One person wins and everyone else loses” describes almost every game I know of.

It’s no fun playing game where everybody else lose? What are those computer games for except to beat all the others?

There’s actually a whole genre of board games now known as “co-op”, in which you win or lose as a group.

“Do You Want To Play A Game?”

I apologize for bringing politics into this, but my view of politics is the same as my view on Monopoly: You need at least 3 players.

If I have Boardwalk and you have Park Place, neither of us will willingly trade to the other, as whoever gets them will eventually win (if other properties are divided).

However if there are multiple players, then we can “build a coalition” and I’ll give you Park Place if you give me the pieces from the “yellow group” that I’m missing. That way we can cooperate and beat “the older sister [or Political Party] that is always beating us”.

The rest of my rant will go onto a political cartoon’s comment section.

This is the way our kids are being raised today. No one is allowed to lose, or be disappointed. Learning how to be a good loser is just as important as learning how to be a good winner. Somehow competition has become evil. How are they going to learn to survive in the real world?

maybe Betty should play a board game with Alex, she would give her some competition.

Isn’t that the point? One person wins. everyone else loses. OMG! That’s pure capitalism! :-D