Quote Originally Posted by Velhart View Post
Its called being competitive, its human nature. I am always comparing myself to others because when someone is performing higher than me, it influences me to go back and see what I can do to improve myself. Its beneficial to both myself and my party. Its fine if you are willing to settle with what you have, but who is going to get picked, the guy who is constantly improving himself, or the person who just settled with what they have because it is "good enough"?
I'm going to snip this part out, because I have a really big problem with this statement. Competition is good. Competition is great. It pushes you to be better, to pull higher numbers, to streamline and optimize your rotation and learn mechanics.

What you're talking about is not competition. That random guy who's i108 but hasn't even entered second coil? You're not competing with him. Nothing about him is pushing you to better yourself, he's not even related to you in ANY way. He's a distant entity who you will never encounter, and, even if you do, if he wasn't in second coil and you were, you're probably going to be performing better than him anyway.

What you're talking about is ePeen. You want to be viewed as higher tiered than the other guy, which is something entirely seperate from good, healthy competition. You're not kidding anyone by trying to say "But teh randoms make me want to better myself!"