Don’t get me wrong, I totally understand the rules of the game, its rather simple. My question is how do people manage to play out 3 rounds in less than 5 seconds?
For me, it’s a multi-step mental challenge that would take me like 15 to 20 seconds slowed down to complete.
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- Pick a word, Rock, Paper, Scissors
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- Remember how to shape my hand
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- Punch Rock into my palm a couple times anyways, as apparently Rock is the default before the actual sign is thrown
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- Remind myself how to arrange my own hand sign when the round is up
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- Observe the opponent’s sign, which is only presented for about a half of a second
- ?. Oh fuck, I didn’t have enough time to register the opponent’s hand sign
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- Feel like a fucking idiot and walk away
Seriously, how is this game played so quickly? Is it more suitable for people that know sign language or something?
And then once you’ve mastered that, you have to add Lizard and Spock!
Haha, once you get used to it, it’s a piece of cake. How often do you play? Mybe don’t start with the folks playing super fast.
Work managers played in like 3 seconds flat to assign job duties.
I threatened to quit if that’s what they expected of me. They ended up finding other ways to assign job duties.
Yeah, they totally assign duties arbitrarily like that.
Umm, yeah, that’s how they assigned toilet cleaning, trash, vacuum the floor duties, etc.
It was a tech shop, we had a grand total of like 8 employees max.
Sounds like a chart could have been created.
Ultimately, because both me and another skilled tech felt uncomfortable in the same fast-paced way they’d play that game, they ended up shifting away from RPS towards something like a round-robin 2 week schedule for miscellaneous job duties.
Hey, in such a small shop, I get it, it seemed like a fun seemingly simple way to assign job duties across ~8 to 10 employees, but me and one of the other experienced techs just couldn’t process the game at the speed the managers demanded.
So we ever so politely requested they change the method they used to assign the dirty job duties. We ultimately figured out how to balance the workload more towards which employee was better at what, like I’m better with heavy loads such as trash, another employee better at cleaning the toilet, and new employees got the vacuum duty.
It doesn’t take much time to go “1, 2, 3, shoot” and flash a hand sign 3 times in a row. 🤷♂️
Yeah, every single time I have encountered someone that insisted me to play the game, they can’t and won’t hold their hand sign long enough for my eyes to even focus on.
They could just as soon use that nearsighted eye refocus time to change their hand sign and always win.
20/500 eyesight sucks, glasses or not…
Film it for later review…? 🤷♂️
week after playing
“Hey you slimey fuck, you cheated!”
Conscious, logical mental processing is quite slow. Anything we learn to do well happens unconsciously and happens at a much faster speed. Think about any task you’ve learned to do well and can do really fast. Your not thinking consciously about each detailed step, your brain just knows how to do them without the plodding involvement of thinking about them.
My natural vision is like 20/500, very nearsighted.
I’m pretty good with BMX flatland bicycle balance tricks, so good in fact that I can do a number of them blindfolded, as it allows me to focus not on my vision but on my balance. So that to me is mostly natural, and doesn’t even require much visual input on open flatland.
But to play a 2 player game, where my vision requires a moment to adapt my vision and focus from near to far and back, plus not get confused by the shear lines from my glasses as I turn my head, then it’s not so easy to get that natural sense you speak of.
Sigh, bad vision sucks, even with glasses…
This isn’t related to your post, but let me ask you, do you see things up close without glasses in high detail?
I’m extremely nearsighted. My vision starts to blur at about 8cm from my nose without glasses, but closer than that I can see very fine detail. It’s why I’ve never been interested in corrective surgery. Almost a super power to my deficiency. I’m at an age where my peers need reading glasses whereas I can just look over my normal glasses and read even tiny print if I need to.
Damn homie, you’re even more nearsighted than I am. I start losing focus about 18cm from my eyeball, but can see stuff up close almost like a microscope!
Here’s my collection of corrective lenses…
https://lemmy.world/post/40665025
I find the bifocals in the top right best for me.
The magnified nearsightedness is something I don’t think most folks realize we can do. I’ve never really asked anyone else with eyes like mine about it, I’ve just always assumed. Thanks for confirming.
Blessing and a curse, right? I love taking my glasses off for a bit at concerts to watch the bokeh around the lights.
The bottom left pair- I didn’t realize they made glasses like that. I figured out when I was a kid that I could press a few fingers together to make a pinhole and be able to see in focus.
