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[-] davel@lemmy.ml 149 points 7 months ago
[-] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 11 points 7 months ago

That is great

[-] papalonian@lemmy.world 9 points 7 months ago

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

[-] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 13 points 7 months ago

Hair needs a trim, bro.

[-] Dabundis@lemmy.world 8 points 7 months ago

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

[-] Zehzin@lemmy.world 7 points 7 months ago

Man it's nuts we incented scissors before paper

[-] Dicska@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago

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

[-] june@lemmy.world 92 points 7 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.

[-] sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 66 points 7 months ago

Rock paper scissors is a game of psychological warfare

[-] SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 65 points 7 months ago

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.

[-] BarrelAgedBoredom@lemm.ee 6 points 7 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@lemmy.world 17 points 7 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@lemmy.world 25 points 7 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.

[-] brygphilomena@lemmy.world 6 points 7 months ago
[-] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago

Never go against a Sicilian when death is on the line!

[-] june@lemmy.world 9 points 7 months ago

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

[-] ericbomb@lemmy.world 4 points 7 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.

[-] mexicancartel@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 7 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

[-] ivanafterall@kbin.social 42 points 7 months ago

Look at the try-hard playing paper over here.

[-] NakariLexfortaine@lemm.ee 24 points 7 months ago

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?

[-] CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 19 points 7 months ago

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

[-] EmpathicVagrant@lemmy.world 6 points 7 months ago

You sound like a paper Mario boss justifying being cut up

[-] Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 6 points 7 months ago

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

[-] Ejh3k@lemmy.world 39 points 7 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.

[-] jqubed@lemmy.world 26 points 7 months ago

Did he still throw rock against you? Was he beaten by @june@lemmy.world?

[-] EmpathicVagrant@lemmy.world 9 points 7 months ago

When Lemmy gets meta for no reason is my favorite thing to wake up to

[-] LEONHART@slrpnk.net 35 points 7 months ago
[-] samus12345@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

Bart would totally own this guy.

[-] samus12345@lemmy.world 22 points 7 months ago
[-] otterpop@lemmy.world 5 points 7 months ago

Credit for this goes to David Lovelace, and it's not even the most ridiculous variant he made: https://www.umop.com/rps.htm

[-] eatham@aussie.zone 2 points 7 months ago
[-] qaz@lemmy.world 8 points 7 months ago

The arrow points at the thing it beats

[-] drolex@sopuli.xyz 3 points 7 months ago

It should be obvious since common sense tells that sponge beats gun and snake beats air

[-] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 16 points 7 months ago

League of Legends in a nutshell.

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

[-] Honytawk@lemmy.zip 14 points 7 months ago

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@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

god I miss the good old days of robocraft

[-] Donjuanme@lemmy.world 11 points 7 months ago

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

[-] feoh@lemmy.ml 11 points 7 months ago

Gamer culture in one :)

[-] Roflmasterbigpimp@lemmy.world 9 points 7 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.

[-] OttoVonNoob@lemmy.ca 4 points 7 months ago

Mine was Dota2 I don't play anymore but some people got so sour over counter picks.

[-] Kerb@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 7 months ago

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

[-] NorthWestWind@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago

Brella moment

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