Skill

[CrabHelmet]

Like the application of the Socratic Method here Crab' date=' you only posted one sentence that wasn't a question, and it was purely to point out that people shouldn't be asking questions.

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What makes you think that asking questions is a bad thing?

 

On the Reasoning issue' date=' the skill involved is merely in the act of determining what to guess. After that, it is a matter of chance. But the more thought put into it, the greater the chance of a good result is, so the response of a play of reasoning fits my def. of skill.

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Is the probability of being correct the only factor involved here? Does playing the lottery take skill?

 

While I search for my definition of Luck' date=' the topic title just reminded me of an awesome video (WARNING! SAID VIDEO CONTAINS LOTS OF TENGEN-TOPPA GURREN LAGANN, AND THEREFOR MAY PUT HAIR ON YOUR CHEST THROUGH IT'S UNBRIDLED MANLINESS!): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwn84ttf7OM

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TTGL takes terrible songs and makes them almost bearable.

[GenzoTheHarpist]

What makes you think that asking questions is a bad thing?

You don't understand' date=' that wasn't meant as sarcasm. I was trying to give you a compliment about your skillful (though not particularly subtle) use of the Socratic Method. If I didn't make myself clear enough, I apologize.

 

Is the probability of being correct the only factor involved here? Does playing the lottery take skill?

If putting more thought into what numbers could produce higher probabilities, than it could legitimately be said that playing the lottery requires skill. Since it does not, the Lottery is not a skill game.

[CrabHelmet]

What makes you think that asking questions is a bad thing?

You don't understand' date=' that wasn't meant as sarcasm. I was trying to give you a compliment about your skillful (though not particularly subtle) use of the Socratic Method. If I didn't make myself clear enough, I apologize.

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What makes you think that I was questioning your intentions and not your interpretation of my intentions?

 

Is the probability of being correct the only factor involved here? Does playing the lottery take skill?

If putting more thought into what numbers could produce higher probabilities' date=' than it could legitimately be said that playing the lottery requires skill. Since it does not, the Lottery is not a skill game.

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Are there any other factors involved in a lottery than the probability of your set of six numbers coming up? If so, can these factors be used to your advantage? How does all of this relate to Reasoning?

[GenzoTheHarpist]

You asked the question: "What makes you think that asking questions is a bad thing?"

 

I, not thinking it was a bad thing, set about correcting the inherent misunderstanding in the question, that being that I thought questioning was bad.

 

Next up, no to all of them.

[CrabHelmet]

You asked the question: "What makes you think that asking questions is a bad thing?"

 

I' date=' not thinking it was a bad thing, set about correcting the inherent misunderstanding in the question, that being that I thought questioning was bad.

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Ah, I see. What I should have said was "What makes you think that I believe that asking questions is a bad thing?"

 

Next up' date=' no to all of them.

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How many possible outcomes to playing the lottery exist? Is it a simple case of Win and Lose, or are the possibilities less black-and-white?

[GenzoTheHarpist]

You asked the question: "What makes you think that asking questions is a bad thing?"

 

I' date=' not thinking it was a bad thing, set about correcting the inherent misunderstanding in the question, that being that I thought questioning was bad.

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Ah, I see. What I should have said was "What makes you think that I believe that asking questions is a bad thing?"

 

Except that wouldn't have made any sense in context, as I clearly didn't think that you thought asking questions was a bad thing. If you thought that, you wouldn't have been asking so many.

 

There was no evidence either of us thought asking questions was bad, so your statement missed it's intended target.

[CrabHelmet]

You asked the question: "What makes you think that asking questions is a bad thing?"

 

I' date=' not thinking it was a bad thing, set about correcting the inherent misunderstanding in the question, that being that I thought questioning was bad.

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Ah, I see. What I should have said was "What makes you think that I believe that asking questions is a bad thing?"

 

Except that wouldn't have made any sense in context, as I clearly didn't think that you thought asking questions was a bad thing. If you thought that, you wouldn't have been asking so many.

 

There was no evidence either of us thought asking questions was bad, so your statement missed it's intended target.

 

people shouldn't be asking questions.

[Guest PikaPerson01]

I define skill as an applied knowledge based on the current situation as well as past situations in order to produce a favourable outcome.

 

There are certain situations where much skill as well as little skill, is needed to produce favourable outcomes.

[「tea.leaf」]

I define skill as an applied knowledge based on the current situation as well as past situations in order to produce a favourable outcome.

 

There are certain situations where much skill as well as little skill' date=' is needed to produce favourable outcomes.

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I like this: concise and arbitrary, but clear at the same time.

[GenzoTheHarpist]

You asked the question: "What makes you think that asking questions is a bad thing?"

 

I' date=' not thinking it was a bad thing, set about correcting the inherent misunderstanding in the question, that being that I thought questioning was bad.

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Ah, I see. What I should have said was "What makes you think that I believe that asking questions is a bad thing?"

 

Except that wouldn't have made any sense in context, as I clearly didn't think that you thought asking questions was a bad thing. If you thought that, you wouldn't have been asking so many.

 

There was no evidence either of us thought asking questions was bad, so your statement missed it's intended target.

 

people shouldn't be asking questions.

Out of context. I said that's what YOU were saying, which I felt was hypocritical.

[CrabHelmet]

You asked the question: "What makes you think that asking questions is a bad thing?"

 

I' date=' not thinking it was a bad thing, set about correcting the inherent misunderstanding in the question, that being that I thought questioning was bad.

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Ah, I see. What I should have said was "What makes you think that I believe that asking questions is a bad thing?"

 

Except that wouldn't have made any sense in context, as I clearly didn't think that you thought asking questions was a bad thing. If you thought that, you wouldn't have been asking so many.

 

There was no evidence either of us thought asking questions was bad, so your statement missed it's intended target.

 

people shouldn't be asking questions.

Out of context. I said that's what YOU were saying' date=' which I felt was hypocritical.

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I clearly didn't think that you thought asking questions was a bad thing.

[GenzoTheHarpist]

That's WHY it was hypocritical. You clearly didn't think asking questions was wrong, but you didn't accept them when they came from other people.

[CrabHelmet]

That's WHY it was hypocritical. You clearly didn't think asking questions was wrong' date=' but you didn't accept them when they came from other people.

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Consider this: Why would I refuse to answer someone's question when I myself ask so many?

[GenzoTheHarpist]

It was my consideration of that that started this whole circular conversation, i'm not going to get into another page-long argument over this.

[~/Coolio Prime\~]

I'd say it's knowing what to do while you're actually in the game' date=' because anyone can make a DAD deck.

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In what ways does skill determine what you do during a duel? Is skill at all relevant to deckbuilding? Are DAD decks a unique case that results from some other factor that reduces the level of skill involved in them, or is supposed the lack of skill involved in building them common to all decks? Do Phantom Beasts take skill to build?

In the strategy section, those play yourself out of this situation threads best show what skill is. Once you're actually in the game, what you do with what you have in the current situation, aka adaptation, is a type of skill.

It depends on what deck you're making. If you're constructing an entirely new deck from your own idea and can manage to make it work, that's a skill too, originality and effectiveness. I refer to DAD decks as not being skillful because most of them are the same. Cookie cutter decks aren't skilled, unless you are the one who originally created said deck or thought of it without outside influence. So yes, a good Phantom Beast deck would take skill to build.

 

Also, Yugioh is a game that requires little skill. It's about the cards you bought and your certain amount of luck(at least in this meta). Any slightly competent person can match up cards with Elemental Hero in their name and build a deck around them, or see that monster a works with monster b. Something like chess, where the only variable between the players is who goes first, is a game said to require much more skill. So from that information I would say that a game requires more skill the more the outcome is effected on what happens in game rather than out of the game.

[Megaworm]

Skill is Kill with an S. You need Skill to kill. well, by yugioh standards. LOLATKing blue eyes decks can't defeat everything, nor can Tele-DAD. you need to know what you are doing, how to do it, and when to do it. You don't put a Blue Eyes in a deck where he will get in the way, nomatter how Beatsticky he can be. You don't throw DAD into a plant deck with no DARK Monsters to use.You don't summon DAD when your opponent obviously has Bottomless Trap Hole on the field or activate Infernal Gainer's effect on a fiend monster when that monster can't attack, and you never ever ever pay 2000 Life Points when Mirror Wall is on the field.