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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).
Did you play against Musk or something? (tho, that seems improbable, he wouldn’t win even with the most broken deck)
Nah, I know for a fact 2/3 of my kills were luck, and the other 1/3 is new players.
COD is literally designed with luck based kills being primary to skill. With each iteration being more dependent on luck than the last.
Bro its not luck theyre hacking.
Haxor.
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.
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.
Fun fact, lagging is a known way of cheating where a player creates artificial lag for periods of time to mess everything up.
Shit map, shit team, bad ping, hackers on the other side.
That should about cover it
I always do the opposite. Every shot I land it’s a lucky shot, and every time I die it’s a skill issue
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.
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.
Yep, you’re in the picture alright
