>>106219644winning is much more about accomplishing your goals over defeating the other person.
like a story about a prominent boxer who puts a bet against themself by proxy, takes a dive, and uses the money to buy the company they are contracted to and fire their shitty manager who they hate would have indisputably 'won' the conflict between themself and the world they occupy.
in the case of Nox he didn't actually want to genocide the tree people and was only able to justify it by concluding 'once I rewind time everyone I killed will be alive again so its not actually genocide'
