Maybe one day the High skilled will teach me and pj how to change our ways
Like I told you over steam, holding to mess up someones chambering timing is perfectly acceptable. If you're holding just to see who has more patience, then it's not about skill, it's about patience.
But I've never seen you hold that long. I just experienced it against PJ when he used it as a fall back plan.
Out of curiosity, what makes you think that having good patience is not a skill?
attribute - "a quality or feature regarded as a characteristic or inherent part of someone or something."
skill - "the ability to do something well; expertise."
Patience doesn't require doing well, or expertise, it's a characteristic relative to someones personality and their environment. Therefore, while good patience is a tool, it's not a skill. You don't need to be good with or knowledgeable about the game mechanics to be patient.
I agree that having patience is a characteristic of someone's personality and will be affected by their environment, but I have to disagree with saying that being patient is not related to doing well, which maintaining composure certainly is. When you're playing and are under immense pressure from somebody because they're in your face, feinting, etc., it pays to be able to maintain composure so that you don't do something reckless and let your guard down, which is what they're looking for. It's not a mechanic in the game itself like chambering, feinting, and blocking are, but it does affect how you have to play against other people, and this is similar to having the skill to adapt to someone's playstyle. What do you think?
Where the fuck did you come from?
RIP 7thRFG. Died too soon.
"A straw man is a common form of argument and is an informal fallacy based on giving the impression of refuting an opponent's argument, while actually refuting an argument that was not advanced by that opponent" < That. That right there is what you just did.
"but I have to disagree with saying that being patient is not related to doing well"
No, actually, you don't have to disagree with something I didn't say. I didn't say patience and composure are unrelated to doing well, I said patience isn't a skill. Skill is your degree of mastery of the game mechanics. You can be a patient person and not even know what chambering is. Yes, patience (and obviously composure) affects duels, no one said it doesn't, it just doesn't require skill to be patient, it requires the willingness/natural fortitude to be so.
Ability to adapt to people's play styles is more just intuition from experience, which I don't really see the parallel between that and patience.
