I like clarity. No, I love clarity. Clarity is my thing.
All these riddles, puzzles, codes. For some reason they annoy me, and I deeply dislike them. Playing chess, poker, bridge, machiavellian social games, none of that is "my thing". Just makes me recoil at a spiritual level.
This war takes a huge array of people with complementary skills. I can take the work of the coders and decoders, and then put it into a framework so that other people have clarity over how it all ties together. But the coding and decoding of obscured narratives and motives isn't my thing at all. Yet the job I do is probably "dull and difficult" to those who like playing those games.
Hmm... interesting you compare the DECODERS to GAME PLAYERS?... Its not for everyone..but being a DECODER - I find it's both a gift and a curse. For me- mostly a GIFT.. everything has numerical value and numbers do not lie.. I feel the category should be given a higher ranking due to the complexity of it and the pain staking time it takes to do them..We do it because thats part of our contribution: a mere piece of the puzzle: most do not want to take the time to learn or to inner-stand.