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It's alright to criticize others as long as you understand your own flaws. You can't make even yourself perfect, and if someone's really getting on your nerves you have the right to be bothered by it. Everyone has good and bad qualities, which is what makes them different. Some people are just embracing their bad qualities more than others, and it's alright to complain some about them, if they're really going overboard.
But see, I think the writer does admit that s/he (didn't check the name) has faults elsewhere in the article.
@TheMissingno.; I kind of get it with what you mean about competitiveness; I think a lot of people bitching about "competitive people" are people who are just insecure that they aren't good at whatever thing that is. Like, when people bitch about people who "take karaoke seriously" I can't help but read that as "I'm insecure because I can't sing." Like, whatever bitch, I'm not going to apologize for having nice pipes (by karaoke standards, anyway) to assuage your fragile ego. I hang around music majors all the time, where I'm not a "great singer" because I'm not studying to be a professional opera singer. When I'm around a group of non-musicians, let me have my chance to show it off.
But then again, I have met those people who are unable not to be competitive about any game, even if it's just a drunken round of Apples to Apples that clearly nobody else is taking very seriously. And they can be major buzzkills in any situation that they're in, when everyone else is trying to have a good time and they keep turning it around to how bent-out-of-shape they are that they only have two green cards and everyone else has at least four.