I’ve written this before, a few people liked it but it seems it was forgotten …
Being someone who is challenged by life in multiple ways (depression, PTSD, ADHD, and a few more), I’d dearly wish we could … no, we can … we would change …
to
Game Invitation
Sounds a LOT friendlier to my ears, and thus also more fitting to our friendly community here We are not gunslingers here, not shootists—at least most of us aren’t, are we?
Normal Games are also per default called “friendly game”, so why not make it like in Real Life where we’d also offer our game partner a cup of tea?
(Coffee for me, please, and an occasional spliff when I visit countries where it is legal.)
For myself at least it always is more like learning, and together … with rather than against, my, uhm, “opponent”. And yeah, sure it is against the other colour, but we “Fight the board, not the person!”, right?
Thoughts? Maybe I’m just getting old and mellow. But still, for me this is about the philosophy of Go.