I've never before heard someone say "He was so smart he couldn't figure out how to beat his opponent". XD
I've never before heard someone say "He was so smart he couldn't figure out how to beat his opponent". XD
I don't think this applies to gaming or real life. I think you try to justify your moments of hesitation by glorifying them, turning them into moments of intense processing. Overthinking makes you just as dumb as underthinking as the result is pretty much the same.
While playing wow, in any new circumstances, i will most likely have a list of priorities, that refer to both my skills and to the order in which i choose to tackle my opponents. The list of priorities can change dinamicly as the conditions of the fight change, in the case in which i am not in full control. I am not going to brag about what i have achieved in WoW, you'll just have to believe me that i am a very efficient player (aka good blabla).
There was a time when i used to put people into categories and that time has long passed. All humans, no matter their level of intelligence (as perceived by others), have qualities and lesser qualities. You get to understand this after quite a life experience, or if you are able to learn from it. All great leaders choose their "soldiers" as pieces of a puzzle, where the puzzle itself is whole, not the individual. This great team (the puzzle) is comprised of people that complement each-other, in cases in which some fail, others shine and at the end of the day everyone congratulates each-other and the bond strenghtens.
Maybe it's more to stuff than you can see at first, why not have a look from another perspective?
Surprised you could fit any text in that box with your ego. You have no proof that you possess more intellect than any random player. Online games are mostly anonymous, and while most console fps games are fielded by young players(13-24), their age says little abut their intelligence. Your thinking is very very much like a linear thinker, by the way. A lateral thinker would not attach to a single explanation for a concept, they would explore a range of ideas and experiences to draw a less generalized concept. Many of the people who responded to you were attempting to show you lateral concepts and you outright attacked their intellect, which is also a very linear though process.
Since you think that linear thinkers must be stupid because they're not(or are) like you. I'm afraid you might have caught the stupid.
Edited to fix a copy/paste failure.
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Quite often, the difference between an idiot and a genius is simply a matter of success rate.
There are many forms of intelligence.
I think you have to be somewhat lacking in intellectual curiosity to get really good at fps, because of the mindlessly repetitive nature of the task.
It is not so much about achieving a goal as gaining no pleasure from achieving it. To use a famous quote from baseball, you have to be smart
enough to play well but dumb enough to think that it matters.
For similar reasons I don't do much arena in warcraft. Running around a pillar like a character in a demented Benny Hill sketch just isn't that appealing.
Does that make me smarter than people that do? No. Does it make me more intellectually curious. Probably. Does it make me less focused and goal-orientated. Yes.
These things are complex.
This is one of the most hilarious posts I've read here. This person, for instance, thinks that me proposing this as the best explanation is the same as thinking it's the only one out there... lol.
I mean, the reason I spend little time writing brief responses is because most of you don't even get the point in the OP. Lol.
OP has a slow OODA loop and people get inside of it rendering him unable to respond effectively.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OODA_loop
While you live, shine / Have no grief at all / Life exists only for a short while / And time demands its toll.
Same for me. I used to play WoW pretty hardcore and was terrible at other types of games. But now I am still competent in WoW just not like I used to be.
I have always been bad at shooters and RTS games, I always played RPG's, JRPG's and action RPG's but now I am pretty good at RTS games but still suck at shooters. But I am decent at Overwatch, not the best and not the worst, but at least I enjoy it lol.