Rock, Paper, Scissors
Created by petetheduck

Required Gametype: Rock-Paper-Scissors
Recommended Players: 2

Scarcely do I consider a front-page article a forum for a memoir-like reflection of my abilities, but Chance so has it that I am in the mood for such things, and have the perfect set of memories on which to reflect upon. The day is vague, but I remember sitting in some formal setting with family, probably a dinner, and explaining my undefeated stance in the handy game after I discovered my innate ability to read people. I was countered, of course, by criticism and disbelief, and soon I was forced to make a show of my claims.

First up was my sister, recently graduated (in modernity, at the time she was a sophomore). "I'm going to lose twice in a row, then I'll sweep in a win." People laughed, thought me proud, and were proven wrong. Three more times, against different opponents, did I find this technique an easy victory. To study one's face, their indecision, and the tremble some have in between the second and third hit of the the fist on their open palm. Heuristics, strategy, I am unbeaten.

Not so in the sport of Halo. Gone are the personal reactions, the readability of one's demeanor, the subtle gives and takes that transform the game into something of a million-dollar poker match. In its place is a simple, clean aesthetic, under which a complicated, brilliant mechanism brings forth memories of success or disdain and displeasure. If you lose, you die. And your opponent laughs.

It is a simple game, one which nearly everyone has enjoyed in their youth at some point, and it is brought to form in a grand affair. Download it, play it between competitive matches, it is the seminal mini-game.

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