Hetland is dumb anyway.
As for those board games, among actual friends, there's an implicit understanding that all the banter and trashtalking and gloating and insults are not done with any serious ill-will. In BM, we're not all friends, obviously, and so there will inevitably be people crying out over things that might actually be no big deal.
I guess therein lies the difference, among my friends we don't trash talk or gloat, it is simply not an aspect of how we relate to each other. We commiserate when somebody has a bad roll of the dice, congratulate those who are having uncommonly good luck or simply playing well and share stories about whatever new thing our young children have recently discovered. The closest we come to gloating is when I take all their money playing poker, but then I'm generally the only one not enjoying some alcoholic beverages, so I have a distinct advantage.
