If someone invites you to play with an overture (a mild good-natured insult, tossing a ball at you...), you can accept in 2 ways: 1. Infer and play by implied rules (assuming you’re socialized enough to know them) 2. Take advantage of the underspecification to “win” in 1 move
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The opposite of knowing how to play along is being an unwitting spoilsport. Being intentionally a spoilsport is of course a different thing altogether, where your payoff is derived from others’ annoyance.
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A good illustration of this dynamic is in Futurama when Bender gets jealous of Nibbler and tries and fails to get the attention back on himselfhttp://www.cc.com/video-clips/ubbd92/futurama-nibbler-s-birthday …
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Very cool. Never thought about conversations that way.
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