Citations:tryharding

English citations of tryharding

• 2020 June 11, Veli-Matti Karhulahti, Esport Play: Anticipation, Attachment, and Addiction in Psycholudic Development, Bloomsbury Publishing USA, →ISBN:

  Tryharding, simply put, is a preference of telic routines over paratelic playful pleasure. Even among those who engage League of Legends through betterment and progress, the telic state of mind hardly governs their play every moment.

• 2020 February 4, Megan McCafferty, True to Your Selfie, Scholastic Inc., →ISBN:

  Morgan won't chase me down—tryharding is not her style—but I'm desperate to get away. “I want to go home, Izzy,” I say. “Please take me home.” Her mouth turns down at the corners. “I'm sorry,” she says. “I'm so sorry.

• 2021 May 21, Willow Wren, Anthony Olmo, The Dauntless Chronicles, Hybrid Global Publishing, →ISBN:

  “DON'T YOU EVER STOP TRYHARDING?!” Destin yelled back. The entire bridge on the Prince of Dragons cracked up, crew members and military alike slapping desks and just flat-out falling over with laughter. My father and brother were […]

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• 2022 April 15, Elena Chernikova, Oleg Yefremov: Theaterman: Novel-dialogue, Babelcube Inc., →ISBN:

  But not only his own lungs were preventing him from breathing – the society itself had been tryharding to rob him from air. There is a scary rhyme between the lives of these two great men, and only now I come to understand: this is why […]