Quoted from Soonerbrink:I have been asked several times "Pinball is pretty much luck, not skill, right?"
They must have been watching me play.
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Quoted from Grinder901:Played my brother on my IM today. Guess which score was mine.
He refuses to trap the ball to aim for shots saying he's rather fate decide than stop the ball. Oh well.
And it appears he paid the iron price for it.
Quoted from Euchrid:This, exactly. There is no luck. Only complex sequences of geometry, spin, friction and gravity. Just because we are unable of calculating such on the fly does not mean it's now random or luck.
So long as you're talking about life, the universe, and everything here and not just pinball, I'd agree. Of course pachinko and coin flipping also operate on "just physics," in that if you had the tools and mental bandwidth to monitor the nearly infinite variables at work as a ball or coin entered play, you could predict outcomes with great precision.
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