Meme Monday: Min-Max Memes

The concept of min-maxing has been around as long as games have been around. Anybody wanting to get an edge over the competition will inevitably migrate toward getting the best gear and the best process to "win" most often. Sometimes the methodology of min-maxing is a specific strategy that must be adhered to at all costs, or a specific set of selections that provide the optimal output, and sometimes it's all about when your turn happens in a game.

In the Euro-boardgame Puerto Rico, for example, whether or not you'll win a game among expert players is completely decided before the game begins, when it's determined who starts first.

(Yeah, I don't play Puerto Rico for that reason. Why would I want to play a game where the veterans who play it are all whiny about who goes first?)

Of course, you also see min-maxers in tabletop RPGs and MMOs (well, any video game, but I'm most familiar with MMOs these days). So without further ado, here's some min-maxing memes...

I'm pretty sure that my wife would not find
this very amusing... From Twitter.

In case it's not been obvious over the years,
I'd be one of the people holding a sword.
From Reddit.

Absolutely the truth, and it can wreak havoc
in both tabletop RPGs and MMOs. From Reddit.

Yeah, when you encounter min-maxers
out and about who simply don't understand
that you aren't min-maxing.
From Facebooks My DnD group.

But if you keep min-maxing, the arms race has
begun. Happens in both WoW and tabletop
RPGs. From Reddit.

Even I will readily admit that some people
throw around the term "min-maxer" just
to avoid doing the bare minimum to play
their class/character properly. From Reddit.