When it's not me, it's you

But it isn't you in the sense of blame, there is no blame. It's you in the sense of intent. Your intent differs from mine. When intent and values clash, people find it hard to change, the resistance to accept new things that challenge our beliefs is.... overwhelming. But change doesn't need to happen for either of us, we can rephrase and redirect the common objective, this is a sandbox after all. When we stop competing and begin working together, despite our differences, magic happens in that collaborative creativity. This is one of the core values in open source, contributing even if the use cases aren't the same, because it still adds value to the ecosystem, even your "competitions." That's good, friendly competition encourages innovation, and you can work with them. Even be friendly.
Magic players (and other sports / games) are some of the best examples I can use here, even during tournaments, you will often find people discussing deck changes to take the deck to the next level, just after they spent the last 45 minutes as bitter rivals aiming for first place. Because after this event, they will be friends again. Granted, in magic tournaments, those changes won't effect your current situation, and if you use the same deck next tournament, they will have had a chance to prepare for what you presented, and what they feel you could have adapted after the event... But that's a whole other meta ecosystem to talk about another day...
I know we like to gloat and talk shit.. it's some capitalistic ego. That's ok, we live in a world of shiny things we want. But we need to know that the shit talking is pertinent to this conversation only, not the system as a whole,... Unless talking about the system.. then maybe it's time to go to war? LoL jk, non-Violence please.

I don't know, I guess I was triggered on exyles steem promo post about steem investing and some reflections on my reaction internally... So,.... Let's keep talking shit, but at least begin working together instead of building nukes. Global warming anyone?