Smart or Stupid? Splatoon isn't a Mario game.

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spemanig said:

MDMAlliance said:

That makes more sense.  The point of the bet wouldn't be a sense of superiority or inferiority, but to show the confidence I would have in a prediction.  Whoever gets it isn't automatically superior, given that it's about an unknown.

It is about superiority and inferiority. I don't need a tangable reward if I am confident about a predition. I know I'm right. If I'm confident that I'm right, all that winning a bet would do would give me a false sense of tangible superiority over the person that lost the bet. If I'm confident that I'm right, I shouldn't feel need to rub that into someone elses face by "winning" a bet. I don't need the added pleasure of winning something. I don't need to make someone else feel like they've lost something. I take the same amount of pleasure being confident that Platoon won't sell well as I do about knowing that the sky is blue. It doesn't matter to me, but if someone tries to tell me that the sky is brown, I'm going to confidently tell them that their wrong. I don't need to rub it in their face by taking something from them like money or "sig control for a month."

Normally I wouldn't actually bet anything, but the problem with not putting anything into the bet makes it sound like you're not committed.  At least for me personally, it's not about rubbing it in someone's face.  At least not usually.