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[guarddogged]

👌

( waits for the read receipt. then: )

you just lost The Game.

[threeisapattern]

the only winning move is not to play

[guarddogged]

in sports we call that a "forfeit".
it's shorthand for "preemptively conceded loss".

[threeisapattern]

and in reasonable person land, we call that a stupid game that you can literally only lose.

[guarddogged]

sometimes that's an important lesson to learn.

[threeisapattern]

uh yeah

so is not playing sometimes

also I'm like a professional benchwarmer soooo

[guarddogged]

who once single-handedly turned the tide of the game, despite all expectations to the contrary.
realism is a useful perspective, but there's something to be said for looking certain defeat in the eye and telling it to go fuck itself.

[threeisapattern]

uh yeah and then I got kidnapped by an old dude to piss off Scott and he didn't even look for me so you see how great that went for me

[guarddogged]

that was ultimately my fault.

( the whole situation had been; Derek had learned the lesson far too late. )

have you guys ever really talked about it?

[threeisapattern]

I prefer to repress

[guarddogged]

and how's that working out for you.

( says the professionally-repressed guy who lives in a functionally abandoned loft. and hangs out with teenagers. )

[threeisapattern]

just great, thanks.

[guarddogged]

convincing.