I think it would be fair to argue that having to play it out even though you know who’s going to win is one of the worse aspects of Monopoly too.
The counterargument I’ve heard is that there may be a certain first or last place but everyone else’s order hasn’t been established yet. Perhaps this is even an argument for player elimination - you guys keep having your competition, we’ll do something else.
I wish I was better at recognizing these moments in games. More often than not I have made my partner suffer through more turns than strictly necessary by arguing that he was still able to win… most recently in a game of Unmatched.
I was mulling over the same whilst doing (useful) busy work today. It’s worse to go through the motions when you know you’re deal last with no hope of climbing up even one place.
In some games one can still have some fun building one’s own thing. Depends on how much interaction there is, among other parameters.
You did a good job of this in Leaving Earth.
But I wasn’t winning then… Recognizing Roger‘s inevitability was also kind of trivial at that point 
Rallyman GT: One of my dummy cars (note: said “dummies” are being scripted by my best efforts 
) just limped over the finish line in Macau with a lap time of 8m29s. That was with 56s knocked off for driving hot.
For reference, the lap record for its real life equivalent (Guia Circuit) in a GT cup was just a hair over 2m17s.
Yes, but what is the record longest time for a lap in real life? That’s how you’ll know if your lap time is truly pathetic.
Without looking much into it, I’d argue you could cruise leisurely around in your uncle’s old Fiat and still make 4 minutes. The track is only about 6km. 
I’m sure there have been so many awful showings, but I can’t ignore my recent game of Codenames Duet where my first guess of the game turned up an assassin.
Recently found a note of my scores from the first box of Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective. Most of my scores lay around 65-85 points, with a few dropping a bit below that - with the notable exception of Case 4, The Lionised Lions. A score of -55 for that leaves it the single worst showing I or any of my friends involved have had in the game.
It may be singularly responsible for the deep seated resentment we now have for Sherlock in all his forms. Even you Cumberbatch, with your smug cheekbones! 
What expansions/decks are you playing with?
There’s cards there I don’t recognise from BGA
They look like base game cards to me. Expansions all ramp up the points.
My preferred card set is Base plus Gathering Storm.
So that, most likely
My first game of Scythe was 6-player and I was Polania. I got off my island once and even made it to the Factory early-ish on, but was immediately sent home in a fight and never got off the island again because I was completely boxed in. I had to play the entire rest of the game on 3 hexes, not understanding what else I could do. I also played the “get resources” space incorrectly by trading instead of just taking, and no one noticed and corrected me. (Everyone ignored me as the only new player.) The game was monumentally hard and long and torturous. I blanked my score from memory it was so pathetic.
I had a very pathetic score of 7 last night playing New York Slice. And most due to a special that I got at the very beginning of the game, giving me a point for each variety of pizza. Last round being one before last to pick did not help. Got two numbers blocked by draw, so luckily I had gathered 8 varieties… minus one anchovies.
Why would they put anchovies as negative? It should be pineapple, anchovies are delicious!
Pineapple on a pizza is wrong, but they are lovely otherwise - however anchovies are disgusting. One of my teenage gaming friends used to work as the manager of a Domino’s Pizza branch, so naturally every game night we’d order one or two big pzzas and several soft drinks from him. Mate’s rates of course - but he’d always put some anchovies under one of the slices of each pizza. Taking that first bite out of a slice felt like being in The Deer Hunter!
What I like about pineapple on pizza is the salty + sweet aspect it brings and it brightens up the pizza and cuts through the grease. Side note: I don’t like cheese. I’m not lactose intolerant, I just don’t like the flavor. My wife calls me a freak. I can tolerate the mildest of cheeses, such as mozzarella on pizza, American cheese on a burger, and that orange cardboard dust you get from boxed macaroni and cheese (of course, none of those technically count as cheese). I didn’t eat pizza with cheese until I was 14 and my first slice was left over ham & pineapple from Little Caesars. That’s what started me eating pizza.
I am afraid I have more than one “wall of shame” result.
Once we played Just One and had an embarrassing score of two, which is really, really bad. However, the fact that we used an emulator with rather strange words is a bit of an excuse.
Then, there was a game of Dead of Winter, which was over before the first round, because we managed to kill enough survivors to reach zero moral (That was quite a superspreader event at the colony, thanks zombie die)
But I think the worst result was a 4 player game of Rail Pass. I can’t blame Fortuna, I can’t blame a website, it was just us. We managed to get 3 points. 3 out of possible 400! We couldn’t even make 1% of the possible points! At least we didn’t give up in shame, but played a few more times to win back our honour.