Games People Shouldn't Play

[firecat]

I complain about people playing Yabbut on a certain newsgroup.

The OH and I agree: Ed Wright (of soc.singles in the early 90s) is the all-time champion of Yabbut, and it's boring to play with anyone else.

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[firecat]

I was thinking of the variation that goes

A: "I have problem X. How can I solve it?"
B: "You could do Y."
A: "Yabbut I caaaaan't because Z."
B: "You could do W."
A: "Yabbut I caaaan't because..."

The really good player can induce self-inflicted baldness in most of his or her opponents.

[mittelbar.livejournal.com]

Ooooo. I un-killfiled a certain someone and almost piped up about it. But perhaps I'm already losing enough hair to age, and should just stay out of it. (The yabbut tactic of "I really appreciate your answers...you stupid gits!" is quite effective against my teetering wall of patience.)