Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-10812391-20130628160909/@comment-10214922-20130629135718

Patriots1976 wrote: Freedom of choice, gotta love it. Some think it's dumb to spend $100 on a virtual card game, but have no issue dropping $100 at the club on the weekend. At the end of the day, neither has much to show for their $100,, one might have a shiny new TFL Card, and the other might have a shiny new hangover for their Sunday. Who's right, who's wrong? Neither one. Where you waste your money is up to you, just like anyone. Be thankful you've got some money to 'waste', (or get wasted) and hopefully if you don't, your not. Agreed.

I don't know why people think success is necessarily converting money into tangible things - 'having something to show for it'; having possessions. Anything you have can be taken away, but not the intangible, not the memories of experiences and the knowledge that you enjoyed the things you did.

Anyway, most people have both - they have possessions and memories. They have things to show - things to show to others, and things that they can only remember for themselves. Most people actually have a balanced approach to the necessary and unnecessary expenditures in life.

This is the TFL wiki and forum. This is where people come to talk about the game, discuss their experiences and share their triumphs. This is part of the enjoyment of the game, and we get this aspect for free. This isn't the forum to come and talk about the house we live in or the car we bought or the investments we've made. Therefore I think it's really disingenuous to come to the forum dedicated to the game and poke incredulous fingers at people who choose to spend their money on it.

If we didn't have the freedom to spend money on stupid entertainment like TFL, or to throw some bucks at new Masterpiece Prowl, or go to the movies or buy organic free trade coffee, and only felt that we should money on the necessary things in life, then we'd just be slaves wouldn't we?