• @papalonian
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      107 months ago

      But why invent scissors before you can cut out those little paper dolls holding hands

    • @Dabundis
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      87 months ago

      Good on the devs for getting the balance in check ahead of the 1.0 release

    • @Zehzin
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      77 months ago

      Man it’s nuts we incented scissors before paper

      • @Dicska
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        37 months ago

        My guess is shears. Or scissors for reed and shit.

  • @june
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    937 months ago

    I once won a RPS tournament with 100 people by throwing nothing but paper, and making sure to tell each opponent that’s what i was going to do. I’m convinced people think paper is somehow weaker than rock or scissors and that’s why it’s effective. That and the mind game of telling them what I’ll be throwing. But even when the others that lost to me affirmed that I wasn’t lying people thought I was lying.

    • @SkyezOpen
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      I throw rock every time. My girlfriend caught on. So now when we rps to decide who does something we don’t want to do, she wins.

      Unless I really don’t want to do it, then I throw scissors. She still wins most of the time so she feels clever, but I have my out.

      • @[email protected]
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        77 months ago

        I do the exact same thing lol. Works great when youre determined to not do something but want to give the illusion of choice

    • @ericbomb
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      187 months ago

      Except… if you said you were throwing paper, they would think you were trying to bait them into going scissors so you could go rock.

      So wouldn’t they themselves go paper? Why would they go rock?

      • @Buddahriffic
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        257 months ago

        If he’s being honest, the correct play would be scissors.

        But it’s foolish to assume he’s being honest, so layer 1 of dishonesty says he’s trying to get them to throw scissors so he can play rock. Therefore the correct play would be paper.

        But it might be a 2 layer lie, where he intends them to see the first layer and play paper to defeat that expected rock but instead play scissors to defeat their paper. Rock defeats scissors.

        You can reason your way to any play in rock paper scissors based on how much deception you think your opponent is using. Add another layer and you shift the moves by one.

      • @june
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        97 months ago

        You tell me man. All I know is that it worked.

        • @ericbomb
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          57 months ago

          Dang it, I feel like this could be a really stupid study. Do this to hundreds of people and record the average response.

      • @[email protected]
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        87 months ago

        Only if they think. Most are like he is definitely not doing paper so scissor is useless. Proceeds to use rock and paper

  • @Ejh3k
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    407 months ago

    Ages ago bud light was doing rock paper scissors tournaments for promotions one summer. I was at a bar one night and won. Went to regionals, and in the semi-final I was up against a guy that only threw rock. Each round leading up, every single throw was rock.

    I lost to him.

    • Rose Thorne(She/Her)
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      Paper is overpowered, for no good reason. What does it do? Covers rock? So if I place a sheet of notebook paper over this brick, and slam it into your temple, nothing’s gonna happen, right?

      • @[email protected]
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        187 months ago

        Scissors beats paper for no good reason. What does it do? Cut paper? Now I have twice as much paper!

        • @EmpathicVagrant
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          67 months ago

          You sound like a paper Mario boss justifying being cut up

      • Rhynoplaz
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        67 months ago

        Well yeah, at that point it’s paper AND rock. That’s twice as strong!

    • @samus12345
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      27 months ago

      Bart would totally own this guy.

  • @[email protected]
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    God I hate those kinds of players.

    Always whining about how their build is bad against a different build, but not realising their build also has advantages over other builds.

    I used to play Robocraft, and the people sporting plasma cannons were whining constantly about how their weapon is the only one that requires skill since the other weapons were hitscan. Not understanding that their weapon was the only one with AoE damage.

    • @redempt
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      god I miss the good old days of robocraft

  • Cowbee [he/him]
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    147 months ago

    League of Legends in a nutshell.

    Thank goodness I got the antivirus “common sense” and deleted that malware.

  • @Donjuanme
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    I worked with a guy who claimed to only their scissors, true to his word ever time I saw it, but I suspect when there was something he really wanted he was ready to pull out the paper, it’s a clever ruse if you can get people believing for long enough

  • Roflmasterbigpimp
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    97 months ago

    I like how everyone thinks of a different Game after seeing this.

    I thought of Overwatch. Switching Characters is such a huge Part of the Game, but some people are just sooo stubborn.

      • Kerb
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        27 months ago

        i assumed it was about fighting games.
        scrubs in the fgc complain about every single move like this.