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Old 2012-02-28, 18:51   Link #2182
Arya
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Originally Posted by mayumi View Post

however mikage does seem to believe "if everyone admires just one flower then a garden wouldn't bloom" which for some reason makes a lot of sense in real life but who knows what mikage is thinking when he said that.
Don't know why but this phrase reminded me to the game theory and the Nash equilibrium. Don't know if it fit or not, anyways that phrase could imply that the Altair strategy to gain their Eve is wrong. And it is quite obvious: if their goal is to perpetuate the species, searching for only one girl is not the best way to do it. Instead of a strategy where each man "admires" his own flower.
If we use *court/love* instead of "admire" and *being reciprocate* as "bloom" it makes more sense. It looks like Mykage knows that Altair's strategy is wrong, in fact that is his own strategy, because he want to find the "girl" and in some ways has convinced them to follow his strategy and more that he is helping them to find her. But this is the opposite. So the strategy used so far is the worst for them, first, evolutionary-wise, because only one would win over the girl and every other contender would lose. Second because the winner is obviously Mykage who will cheat them
Mykage on the other hand has everything to gain, because he has an entire planet focused on finding what he is looking for.
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