Ooh, we're talking games now. [He sits up a little, because now he's interested in talking with someone who seems to have some experience with some kind of nonsense.] The problem with playing the game is even if you beat someone at it, you're still working within or around the rules.
[Which means your moves are constrained.]
You've got to watch it with people that can't be convinced to do the right thing with sincerity and some minimal flattery and/or basic persuasion. Sometimes they're a waste of time to deal with. Sometimes you can win them over now but they'll be a future problem down the line.
Especially considering the etiquette advice in this place is "flatter or get splattered."
[Very Game of Thrones.]
[He's running out of sandwich now. The ordeal will soon be over.]
True, sometimes one of those types gets between you and whatever you need to do and you can't punch them out of the way. But there's a way better move than beating them by playing the game.
[He makes a twirly gesture with his free hand.]
Flipping the board.
[There were enemies of his he could've made delicate political maneuverings around or complicated bargains with. Instead, he'd done what he'd done and systematically exposed and torn down the power structures around them. Fisk, for instance - or at least his universe's version of Fisk - had been rotting in solitary in a a supermax for a while now.]
Aggressively unreasonable people aren't worth dancing around - or bargaining with. So if they're in the way, you dig up enough dirt to bury them with it. Even politicians have weird junk on their hard drives or maps where the bodies are buried.
[He doesn't randomly gun for powerful figures or anything, but he's run into a few people in positions of power that had their fingers in lots of little criminal pies. Sometimes the odd crime ring or supervillain conspiracy involved a collusion with a politician or a police chief or a district attorney here and there.]
[The bigger they were, the harder they fell.]
[He's gotten very good at what he does over the last two decades.]
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[Which means your moves are constrained.]
You've got to watch it with people that can't be convinced to do the right thing with sincerity and some minimal flattery and/or basic persuasion. Sometimes they're a waste of time to deal with. Sometimes you can win them over now but they'll be a future problem down the line.
Especially considering the etiquette advice in this place is "flatter or get splattered."
[Very Game of Thrones.]
[He's running out of sandwich now. The ordeal will soon be over.]
True, sometimes one of those types gets between you and whatever you need to do and you can't punch them out of the way. But there's a way better move than beating them by playing the game.
[He makes a twirly gesture with his free hand.]
Flipping the board.
[There were enemies of his he could've made delicate political maneuverings around or complicated bargains with. Instead, he'd done what he'd done and systematically exposed and torn down the power structures around them. Fisk, for instance - or at least his universe's version of Fisk - had been rotting in solitary in a a supermax for a while now.]
Aggressively unreasonable people aren't worth dancing around - or bargaining with. So if they're in the way, you dig up enough dirt to bury them with it. Even politicians have weird junk on their hard drives or maps where the bodies are buried.
[He doesn't randomly gun for powerful figures or anything, but he's run into a few people in positions of power that had their fingers in lots of little criminal pies. Sometimes the odd crime ring or supervillain conspiracy involved a collusion with a politician or a police chief or a district attorney here and there.]
[The bigger they were, the harder they fell.]
[He's gotten very good at what he does over the last two decades.]