What can Leaderboards tell us about Pride?

 It shows skill, it shows how you've been able to out compete and skillfully reach your way to the top, the faster you reach your way to the top with little to no effort the better. The better you performed and less touchable your record is the more ingrained that aspect is about you and tying your achievements to your identity, to your brand that is something people will think about you.

That for leaderboards seeing your name in the top 100 is amazing, it's soul-fulfilling that there is no feeling like any other to see yourself become better than a lot of people who played for much longer than you have.

On the same token; it is painful to see other people race by you, just take your record out from under you with little to no effort and it feels shameful to loose that like that, even if you score better than them at the end, they were leagues ahead of you and some part of you inside yourself knows if your opponent just applied themselves a bit more, they could've easily beaten you without a second thought but held back and it does take the wind out of my sails with that being the case.

On the other hand it still feels like an achievement to have a record that you see people struggle to beat for the longest period of time, even if they did beat it; that it did take them forever.

Perhaps achievement/ combative type players are very competitive and prideful; though I'm mostly talking about myself, I'd want to know the mindset of the achievement/ combat focused players.

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