|"I seem to have struck a nerve in an "intellectual"."
You are quite possibly the most willingly ignorant person I have yet conversed with on this forum.
You use the word "intellectual" like a club, which you are too ignorant to know is generally used to refer to phony social scientists and so on, such as Gore Vidal, Howard Zinn, Noam Chomsky.
Game Theory is a branch of MATHEMATICS, a hard science, and was discovered/invented by one of the greatest mathematical minds of the 20th century who also invented much of computer science, the atomic bomb. Game theory is heavily used in "thinking machines" and used by the DOD in wargaming simulations, it's also the mathematical proofs for the economic theories of men like Adam Smith and Milton Friedman, and provides mathematical proofs for disputing socialism and communist economic theories.
You managed to reduce it to whether a game is enticing to play or not. That's not even a summary, it's not even CLOSE.
Stupid is a stupid does.
I may not be the brightest star in the heavens, but I’m smart enough to recognize when someone is testing the mettle of a newbie who writes like he/she is on the Redmond payroll. But you just had to jump in, didn’t you? Pretty revealing....
There are worse, believe me...
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