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* Competition is more or less a synonym or one-word description of [[Serious Business]] and [["Stop Having Fun!" Guys]] rolled into one. Take anything. Make it competitive. Watch it immediately turn into [[Serious Business]] and cock-measuring as the [["Stop Having Fun!" Guys]] kick out all the people who actually want to have fun with it. Competition can be good...Except that over 90% of it is absolutely ruined by [["Stop Having Fun!" Guys]] who just ''take it way too seriously'' for it to be reminiscent of ''any'' kind of fun, because then they will take on the "Win to live" mentality and treat a simple ''game'' as though it is the most important thing in the world.

** If there is a multiplayer game that is updated regularly to fix exploits and other bug problems, expect the players that take the game seriously to be the first ones that complain about how broken something is or how unbalanced a character/level/set up is unless it gets fixed. Casual players won't give a damn unless the problem is that extreme.

* [[Brick Joke|Getting the last word.]]

* What's the most widely-purchased item in Russia that is illegal to buy or sell there? Oddly enough, as of 2020, ''cheese''. Specifically, a Finnish brand of cheese called Oltermanni. Due to restrictions on transport of food due to the Covid outbreak, there are several black markets in Russia selling this cheese (which normally costs 4 euros per kilo) for the equivalent of 16 euros in Russia. Customs agents in both countries have been cracking down as a result, and supermarkets in Russia are having to lower prices on legally-shipped cheese to make the black market cheese less of a temptation.