Originally Posted by
Alan Mendelson
99% a joke. Thanks mickeycrimm.
Deny it all you want but running your free play thru once is a stop loss, and what ever you get was your predetermined win goal.
If you stop playing when the advantage is gone, that's not a stop loss. That's advantage play. When the free play has been used, the advantage is gone. Obviously.
So according to Mr. Mendelson, whatever I've won was my win goal, which is determined after I have stopped. Cool. Thus, win goals are not real numbers. They are whatever I've won after I stop playing a session. Okay. Some people call those "winnings," but I guess if one is behind lifetime, that's a short-term misnomer.
And voila, I think we've stumbled onto the reason people like the phrase "win goal." It sounds as if the player is winning or has won. In actuality, however, the player is behind lifetime, so it's not really "winnings." It's a "win goal."
Thanks for the clarification, Mr. Mendelson.
I'm going to get creative, also, spurred by Mr. Mendelson's ingenuity. I think that people who play negative games should refer to their session goals as "borrowing goals." If they win, they are, after all, not really winning because they are behind lifetime, and given that playing negative games is to some degree voluntary, they fully intend to give it back. So "borrowing goals" sounds right, because they'll be giving it back shortly.