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Oh man, if it turns out nine-gear crow was the one holding Team Right back this entire time...
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Feb 21, 2017 22:11
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Paul.Power posted:So all else being equal, right still has a 3/16 or 19% chance to win. Possible, but you wouldn't shoot an X-COM alien on those odds. unless we're talking UFO Defense in which case those are your best odds a lot of the time 
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Feb 21, 2017 22:17
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Mega64 posted:Oh man, if it turns out nine-gear crow was the one holding Team Right back this entire time... You're more than welcome to take my place on that sinking ship of fools if you think you can do a better job, Mega.
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Feb 21, 2017 22:51
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Clearly, Team Right's only hope is the Tiger Claw. ...what? The glove looks sinister enough.
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Feb 21, 2017 23:25
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nine-gear crow posted:You're more than welcome to take my place on that sinking ship of fools if you think you can do a better job, Mega. Do you have any insights as to your former team's psychological status? Any interesting rumors going around about your teammates you can confirm?
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Feb 22, 2017 06:27
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GeneX posted:Do you have any insights as to your former team's psychological status? Any interesting rumors going around about your teammates you can confirm? It's all true. All of it. Team Right is broken, desperate, flailing about in a blind panic and headed for destruction. The fact that I'm even here, willing to discuss this is proof of the disunity consuming our once united, fabulously gloved empire. The collapse is real. Also yeah, don't get too comfortable. Once Right falls, Left is totally coming for all your asses. They won't be satisfied with just one kill.
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Feb 22, 2017 06:40
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Round 7 is finished! The result:   ROCK SORTA JUST LAYS NEXT TO ROCK! IT IS A TIE! Current score: 3-0 in favour of Team Left, one point left to win. Previous moves: L: PRPRRRR- R: RRPRSSR- Summary: Aaaand we're back to the familiar old rock tie. C'mon Team Right, you can pull this back!
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Feb 22, 2017 16:44
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More than half the throws in this game have been rock.  Does anyone have data on throw incidence in human-on-human games?
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Feb 22, 2017 17:23
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How many more times are these people going to throw rock? I say two more sets of Rock ties.
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Feb 22, 2017 19:32
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Out of the three wins so far, 2 of them have come from throwing rock, and in contests of rock vs scissors in this game, rock has beaten scissors in 100% of contests. Based on these comprehensive statistics that absolutely tell the whole story, we can now say, with statistical certitude, that everyone playing RPS in any scenario should always play rock.
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Feb 22, 2017 19:48
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Team Right would have a better relative score if they had been throwing nothing but rock, so that checks out
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Feb 22, 2017 20:00
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Added Space posted:More than half the throws in this game have been rock. 1.) Apparently among experts at the World RPS tourneys, the throw breakdown is as follows: 35.4% rock, 35.0% paper, 29.6% scissors 2.) Due to some underlying psychology about rock being BIG DICK testosterone manly, rock is disproportionately thrown by the first throw by novice men. This is apparently even more true when RPS is played spontaneously without much time to think. 3.) There's apparently no real consensus about what women are most likely to throw first. Be surprised (not really) but most RPS tournaments and studies apparently skew heavily male. 4.) Most novices are very reluctant to play the same throw three straight times*, so make your call by assuming they won't do it again. *Though apparently Left has just said "gently caress it, we're going rock till it stops working". A few sources: http://worldrps.com/advanced-rps/sample-page/ http://www.telegraph.co.uk/men/thinking-man/11051704/How-to-always-win-at-rock-paper-scissors.html https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-blame-game/201504/the-surprising-psychology-rock-paper-scissors
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Feb 23, 2017 00:59
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Round 8 is finished! The result: ROCK ROCKS ROCK! IT IS A TIE! Current score: 3-0 in favour of Team Left, one point left to win. Previous moves: L: PRPRRRRR- R: RRPRSSRR- Summary: These teams sure love playing rock. Who will blink first this time?
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Feb 23, 2017 20:26
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I hope left is going for the sextuple rock gambit. No one would expect that, right?
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Feb 23, 2017 20:29
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Good ol' rock. Nothing beats that!
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Feb 23, 2017 21:02
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I am becoming more convinced with each passing round that it will be Rock, Sturdiest and Most Virtuous of the RPS Three, that will prevail. Furthermore, I think we can all agree that Rock has now proven itself to be so formidable that next time we have a rock vs. paper contest, paper will not beat rock, but will, at best, tie. I know that at the outset we would have found this unthinkable, but that just speaks to how far we've come in the understanding of this game.
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Feb 23, 2017 21:16
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At this point, with 11 out of 16 plays (L:6, R:5) being rock, one has to wonder if there is some sort of rock fetish at play here?
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Feb 23, 2017 21:33
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I'll be surprised if they ever switch away from Rock. It's like nukes! The first one to change away from Rock-Rock is the first one to die!
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Feb 23, 2017 21:42
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Pea posted:At this point, with 11 out of 16 plays (L:6, R:5) being rock, one has to wonder if there is some sort of rock fetish at play here? You make it sound perverse! There is no rock "fetish", you filthy scissors apologist. There is merely a growing religious reverence for the rock-hard power of rock, which stays hard no matter what, has always beaten scissors, and now, I believe, will be able to finally beat paper as well.
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Feb 23, 2017 21:47
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This is actually pretty interesting by now: I wouldn't blame Team Right for assuming Team Left will literally pick rock forever just to win in the most humiliating way possible. If Right plays paper to preempt this, and Left switches around to scissors, it would be a pretty impressive mind game to end this massacre of a match on.
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Feb 23, 2017 21:52
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This is one hell of a cold war.
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Feb 23, 2017 21:55
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The only way to lose is not to play rock
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Feb 23, 2017 21:59
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Please Team Right. Please following Oblivion's precisely correct reasoning and go with it. It doesn't have to end like this e: they're doing it... they're doing it 
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Round 9 is finished! The result:  ROCK BREAK SCISSORS! TEAM RIGHT SCORES! Current score: 3-1 in favour of Team Left, one point left to win. Previous moves: L: PRPRRRRRS- R: RRPRSSRRR- Summary: Okay, that was honestly pretty amazing. Team Left finally gambles on playing scissors, confident that Team Right will accept that they are weirdos and switch to paper. Team Right is extremely close to falling into the trap, but an amazingly prescient piece of reasoning by Oblivion4568238 convinces them to put their fate in rock once more, punishing the hubris of Team Left and scoring their first point of the game! Will this be enough to turn the match around?
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Feb 26, 2017 14:42
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NO SWEEP FOR LEFT! 
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Feb 26, 2017 14:54
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Well now we can confirm that scissors is cursed I guess? 
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Team Left has lost its moral core, throwing scissors for the first time and losing faith in that most trustworthy of throws, Rock. Team Right displays the reverence for Rock that Rock deserves and gets their first win as a reward, because Rock provides. If team left is to win this, they have to return to their worship of Rock before it is too late.
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Feb 26, 2017 18:39
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Team Left noooooooCathode Raymond posted:If team left is to win this, they have to return to their worship of Rock before it is too late. Agreed
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Feb 26, 2017 19:35
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Feb 26, 2017 23:45
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Round 10 is finished! The result: ROCK BREAK SCISSORS! TEAM RIGHT SCORES! Current score: 3-2 in favour of Team Left, one point left to win. Previous moves: L: PRPRRRRRSS- R: RRPRSSRRRR- Summary: Team Left: "They totally will not expect us to place the inferior always losing move scissors twice in a row, since it always loses.  "But Team Right expected it. Scissors never win. This game might actually be a fight now.
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Feb 27, 2017 13:37
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Man, crow was really holding those guys back.
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Feb 27, 2017 13:42
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Looking forward to "I can't believe Team Left blew a 3-0 lead"
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Feb 27, 2017 14:39
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This is the hypest thread on SA right now.
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This was a bit of a stomping at first, but now it is the turnabout underdog story of the year! It's really intense, can't wait to see the next move!
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Takanago posted:Looking forward to "I can't believe Team Left blew a 3-0 lead" Warriors...Indians...Falcons...Team Left?
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Well poo poo, seems like Oblivion's struck again meaning that we're going to have it all come down to one throw. I'm honestly kind of baffled at the fact that said statement is actually generating legitimate excitement.
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Takanago posted:Looking forward to "I can't believe Team Left blew a 3-0 lead"
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Holy poo poo.
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I see from the Right thread that Crow jumped right back onto their team once their fortune changed. EDIT: And the way voting is going, the Rock Reform Movement is going to lose out on team left and they're about to throw paper and lose to scissors for the first time. Shameful. Utterly shameful. Cathode Raymond fucked around with this message at 01:29 on Feb 28, 2017 |
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