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[–] Kataelyna@lemmy.world 10 points 4 days ago (1 children)

This is why I quit playing Magic the Gathering, the one person I regularly played against was the sorest possible loser. Every win I got was because I "just got lucky" and every win he got was "strategy" (his strategy was pouring hundreds of dollars into the game for the most expensive and broken cards).

[–] rockerface@lemm.ee 3 points 4 days ago

Did you play against Musk or something? (tho, that seems improbable, he wouldn't win even with the most broken deck)

[–] Toneswirly@lemmy.world 8 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Bro its not luck theyre hacking.

[–] BreadOven@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago
[–] SARGE@startrek.website 9 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Nah, I know for a fact 2/3 of my kills were luck, and the other 1/3 is new players.

[–] SippyCup@feddit.nl -3 points 4 days ago

COD is literally designed with luck based kills being primary to skill. With each iteration being more dependent on luck than the last.

[–] Enzy@lemm.ee 5 points 4 days ago

More like

Skill || Lag

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 5 points 4 days ago

I know when I get lucky, too. I've managed to accidentally snipe a dude super far away in ARMA playing Wasteland when I bumped my mouse against my keyboard while trying to get through a door, so my gun was pointed to my side and because the ballistics in the game are pretty gnar, some poor bastard almost a full kilometer away got brained by it.

[–] NorthWestWind@lemmy.zip 3 points 4 days ago

I always do the opposite. Every shot I land it's a lucky shot, and every time I die it's a skill issue

[–] taiyang@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Funny enough there's a whole section of social psychology dedicated to this type of causal attribution. See also: "it was lag!!"

Long story short: personal, stable factors we like it it's a success, dislike in failure; situational, unstable factors we like it it's a failure, dislike in success. Self-serving and group serving biases, basically.

[–] smee@poeng.link 2 points 4 days ago

Fun fact, lagging is a known way of cheating where a player creates artificial lag for periods of time to mess everything up.

[–] DeusUmbra@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago

Thing is, I know I am a Mid player of any competitive game I actually get into. COD/Halo I was always middle of the board, a relatively 1-1 k/d ratio so nothing great but not dragging my team down, so I knew when someone was just better than me or when BS was going on, and I definitely knew when my team fucking sucked. If I was at the top of the board for my team, my team was ASS, I am not good enough to be up that high with a competent team.

Now, I just don't play PVP stuff, only PVE, but my teams still fucking suck. I hate carrying a team who can't do their jobs.

[–] smee@poeng.link 3 points 4 days ago

Shit map, shit team, bad ping, hackers on the other side.

That should about cover it

[–] gnomesaiyan@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I mostly lose when my team is clueless (typical lack of situational awareness) or expects me to carry them (I don't carry trash). That's when I stop playing and start trolling. Either way, I'm having a good time.

[–] rockerface@lemm.ee 1 points 4 days ago

Yep, you're in the picture alright