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by jgalt212 1949 days ago
I hear this a lot, and I've never played Diplo. That being said, how is a backstab more personally unsettling than a bluf in poker?
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Poker is always zero sum, for me to win you must lose. That is never not true. But in Diplomacy you cannot win without successfully cooperating with other players. Yes there can only be one ultimate winner, but at any given moment in the game you need to successfully collaborate to make progress, so betrayals are much more painful. A poker bluff isn’t a betrayal because it’s not offering you anything you need or making any commitments to you.