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As if, within their high-pitched cries and songs, there are coded threats. 'Sometimes you get what you want and sometimes you get what you need and sometimes you get what you get.' Extract
Slay like the knights of the Round Table
When the enemy advances, withdraw; when he stops, harass; when he tires, strike; when he retreats, pursue.
Silence can mock.
Beat your opponent where he is strongest, and you demoralize him.
There are always risks in battle. It's a dangerous business. The trick is to take the right ones.' [said Halt].
'How do you know which are the right ones?' Shigeru asked.
Halt glanced at his two younger companions. They grinned and answered in chorus, 'You wait and see if you win.
The greatest weapon in the world ... is ridicule.
The game honors toughness
Surprise is the essence of attack!
Whispers are rare, dangerous, and powerful, even among the Silvers, even in the capital. The rumors about them vary, but it boils down to something simple and chilling: they can enter your head, read your thoughts, and control your mind.
These are the six ways of courting defeat - neglect to estimate the enemy's strength; want of authority; defective training; unjustifiable anger; nonobservance of discipline; failure to use picked men ...
Let the Kez come," Tamas roared. "Let them send their greatest generals after us. Let them stack the odds against us. Let them come upon us with all their fury, because these hounds at our heels will soon know we are lions!
During a match, you are in a permanent battle to fight back your everyday vulnerabilities, bottle up your human feelings. It's a kind of self-hypnosis, a game you play, with deadly seriousness, to disguise your own weaknesses from yourself, as well as from your rival.
In life, we all get scored on every day. The wonderful thing is, if we do our best with courage and tenacity, we might be outscored but we can never be beaten.
Braying of arrogant brass, whimper of querulous reeds.
With these shreds They vented their complainings, which being answered And a petition granted them, a strange one, To break the heart of generosity, And make bold power look pale, they threw their caps As they would hang them on the horns o' th' moon, Shouting their emulation.
They have assumed the names and gestures of their enemies, but have held on to their own, secret souls; and in this there is a resistance and an overcoming, a long outwaiting.
The art of angling, the cruelest, the coldest and the stupidest of pretended sports.
Adroit observers will find that some who affect to dislike flattery, may yet be flattered indirectly, by a well seasoned abuse and ridicule of their rivals.
Ignore insults and provocations from the enemy, it's psychological warfare. Ignore the same from team mates if they accuse you of camping: as soon as your kills begin to pile up, they'll shut up.
Blood, sweat, tears. No practice tomorrow 'cause there's no one left to beat.
Men went mad and were rewarded with medals.
Retribution. Poetic justice. Just deserts. Comeuppance.
Rat-a-tat-tat."
"Quack."Quack-- Kate Angell
The flaming hug attack of doom.
Ah, ambushes. Those take me back. The best ones are the ones that start with chloroform and handcuffs, and end with death threats and knives. And by 'best' I mean 'most irritating,' you understand.
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Those skilled at making the enemy move do so by creating a situation to which he must conform; they entice him with something he is certain to take, and with lures of ostensible profit they await him in strength.
In battle, there are not more than two methods of attack
the
direct and the indirect; yet these two in combination give rise to
an endless series of maneuvers.
Blood! Blast! And Fire
Video games offer violent messages, and even the sports video games include taunting and teasing.
Your personal devil tries three classical approaches : a threat, a promise, and an attack on your weak side.
people tease or criticize you.
No punching?" he asked.
"No."
"No kicking?"
"No."
"How about arm wrestling?"
"No. And before you ask, we've avoided Slug Bug, Slap Bets, and any and all Dance-Offs."
Fate Succumbs
You do remember how dangerous I am with those?"
"Aye, that's the point. Everyone will duck and cover if they see you wielding these."
"Even my teammates?"
"Especially your teammates.
Deliberate tactical errors and minor losses are the means by which to bait the enemy.
Ridicule can do much, for instance embitter the existence of young talents; but one thing is not given to it, to put a stop permanently to the incursion of new and powerful ideas.
Rock-Paper-Scissors for it."
"But you always cheat," Blake whined. "And then you just punch me and growl that 'rock beats face'.
Gets aggressive with him. He's very hurt by the
Close thine ear against him that shall open his mouth secretly against another. If thou receivest not his words, they fly back and wound the reporter. If thou dost receive them, they fly forward and wound the receiver.
Teased
Sometimes
when I'm teased
I don't cry,
I go away.
When I come back
my brother and his friends
are doing something else.
I remember.
They forget.
When merciless ambition, or mad zeal, has led two hosts of dupes to battlefield, That, blind, they there may dig each other's graves, And call the sad work glory ...
Boasting and bravado may exist in the breast even of the coward, if he is successful through a mere lucky hit; but a just contempt of an enemy can alone arise in those who feel that they are superior to their opponent by the prudence of their measures.
Buggeration and Fuckery
Hush little owl,
You're with Twi.
I got the moves to get you by.
Big bad crows.
St. Aggie's scamps
Ain't got nothin to show the champ.
I'll pop a spiral
With a twist,
Do a three-sixty
And scatter mist
This aggression will not stand
Attack where he is unprepared; sally forth when he does not expect you.
A strong pursuit, give no time for the enemy to think, take advantage of victory, uproot him, cut off his escape route.
Direct attacks were foolhardy. The circumspect survived. And the deceitful prevailed.
Never tease anything that wants to eat you. Reign of Blood
The best way to intimidate your opponents is with your brilliance.
mystify, mislead, and surprise the enemy
The intellectual man requires a fine bait; the sots are easily amused. But everybody is drugged with his own frenzy, and the pageant marches at all hours, with music and banner and badge.
Tactics are manipulative.
Fierce language and pretentious advances are signs that the enemy is about to retreat.
Deceit with sternness, ignorance with pride,
Because she's going to help you understand something. I'm not yours to taunt. Don't think I haven't noticed the way you try to manipulate me. I invented that game.
I warn the marauder dragging plunder, chaotic, rich beyond all rights: he'll strike his sails, harried at long last, stunned when the squalls of torment break his spars to bits.
Eat you inside out like stress ... You hear my voice, you see my face, you know my name / I take it out your ass and charge it to the game
Do not respond to attacks with attacks. Respond with Mercy & Respect
be aggressive, BE-BE Aggressive! B-E
A-G-G-R-E-S-S-I-V-E
Laughter broke from them. It spread into a roar of acclamation; for bluff is a weapon dear to every adventurer.
Silences can wound as surely as the twisting lash.
The natural hostility of beasts is laid aside when flying from pursuers; so also when danger is impending the enmity of rivals is ended.
Problems worthy of attacks, prove their worth by hitting back
When you frown,
it amuses your enemies.
When you sulk,
it gratifies your enemies.
When you cry,
it tickles your enemies.
When you smile,
it agitates them.
When you laugh,
it angers them.
When you glow,
it infuriates them.
I steel myself to ignore his taunts and his coarse language. I no longer care what he says or does. It doesn't matter anymore. I am detached, contained in my own private world where he cannot reach me. It is my last refuge.
The prayers of cowards fortune spurns.
understanding they in their turn have played on them. Our soul sometimes takes its own revenge: What we see and hear when agitated by anger we do not see as it is:
Revenge is a dish best served unexpectedly and from a distance - like a thrown trifle.
How unexpected [are] the attacks of destiny!
Their rage supplies them with weapons.
Braggarts and rogues, dogs and scoundrels, drive them out, Harry Potter, see them off!
Attack the enemy's strategy.
Some battles are won with swords and spears, others with quills and ravens.
Humiliation is the sport of the petty
Jules: Why are you on the floor?
Emma: I've heard roling out of bed in the morning helps you build up resistance to surprise attacks.
Jules: Oh yeah? What does screaming "holy crap!" do?
Emma: That part's optional.
thou who herd'st nerfs,
Attack, voracious
eating, and flight:
it's a sound routine
for staying alive on edges.
If a team intimidate you physically and you let them, they've won.
Pranks vs school= pranks win all day
It was a quiet taunt...a poisoned glass of wine, meant to intoxicate and exsanguinate.
Petty mind mocks.
hands, making him submit
When cowards hide behind great walls, it is they who are defeated, Khaleesi," Ko Jhogo said. Her other bloodriders concurred. "Blood of my blood," said Rakharo, "when cowards hide and burn the food and fodder, great khals must seek for braver foes. This is known.
They give their hearts away
It is no wiser to taunt a man with words than to poke a wildcat with a stick.
Guards! Take the bastard out and beat him! (Styxx)
Tell me something, brother. What angers you most about me? The fact I share your face or the fact I know exactly what your best friend wants to do to you ... and how often? Good to see you again, Lord Dorus, especially clothed. (Acheron)
Sieges weathered.
Barbed banter was the coin of their realm and heartfelt admissions of affection were rejected out of hand as counterfeit.
Mean teasing is still mean
In time the savage bull sustains the yoke; In time all haggard hawks will stoop to lure; In time small wedges cleave the hardest oak, In time the flint is pierced with softest shower, And she in time will fall from her disdain, And rue the sufferance of your friendly pain.
Fun, fun, fun, got you, got you, and got you again! Here, you're dead, here, I broke your forepaw, here, your blood runs out! Got you, got you, got you!
The battles your enemy wages against you - especially the most acute, consistent ones - possess a personality to them, an intimate knowledge of who you are and the precise pressure points where you can most easily be taken down.
Like all bullies and marauders, Gos was a coward at heart
Vengeance, retaliation, retribution, revenge are deceitful brothers - vile, beguiling demons promising justifiable compensation to a pained soul for his losses. Yet in truth they craftily fester away all else of worth remaining.
A cowardly cur barks more fiercely than it bites.
The punishing of wits enhances their authority.
Smote.' I haven't gotten to use that word since my days upstairs. I kind of miss it. Lots of pomp and circumstance in a word like that." He tapped his chin as the smile became sly. "Downstairs we just say slaughter or massacre or team-building exercise.
Ruin seize thee, ruthless king! Confusion on thy banners wait! Though fann'd by Conquest's crimson wing, They mock the air with idle state.