Ranting in the dark

Obscure, certainly. Playing the mindfuck game with an inanimate object is tricky business. Trickier still when the opponent behaves so erratic, in a nice, randomized pattern. You just never know what's going to hit you next, where the next blow is going to head, what to expect or how to react. The trick, of course, is not to rely on insight of the future.

Plans are meaningless and expectations - pointless. Predetermined mind gets screwed in the mindfuck game, because the opponent is the one that gets to choose. If you want to get out of the wickedness of the game, you should be the one getting the choice.

Naturally, people hate to choose. Is it because they are afraid to make the wrong choice? Why does there always have to be a "wrong" choice? The thing is - people go looking for it on their own. When they don't know, they're afraid they'll make a mistake. When they know too much, they're afraid of the consequences. So people don't want to go on and play the mindfuck game the right way, because they're afraid of making the moves that bring them the victory.

The trick that is required here, however, is not to make the right choices, but not to leave your opponent any. Be a little, dumb, reactive machine. Just get the immediate choice and act on it. No matter how, no matter what you use to base it on. Decide on the spot, trust the subconscious, the instincts speaking in the back of your head, before you even realized. Base it on a predetermined rule, fixed in stone. Anything, really. Just make sure you are the one getting the choice.

And this is why playing the mindfuck game with a roulette is so great. You can't avoid having the choice, because it never makes any. It just throws you off balance every time, having the unpredictable, absent-minded, logic-deprived behavior of a physical random system.

This is where you learn to win.

And the mindfuck game? It's your favourite game, comrade. We all play one.
What is your game?