slazer2au@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-24 hours agoIf XCOM didn't exist before AI slop, people would assume missing 3 90% shots in a row was due to AI generated code not just how probability works.message-squaremessage-square24fedilinkarrow-up190arrow-down18
arrow-up182arrow-down1message-squareIf XCOM didn't exist before AI slop, people would assume missing 3 90% shots in a row was due to AI generated code not just how probability works.slazer2au@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-24 hours agomessage-square24fedilink
minus-squareWildmimic@anarchist.nexuslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·4 hours agoit’s a 1 in 1000 event, that really hurts (or doesn’t in this case)
minus-squaremorto@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13·4 hours agoWe lose the notion of how many shots we fire in the game, so very unlikely events like that are very likely to happen at least once in a playthrough, but they still feel absurd. Our minds simply aren’t made for statistics
minus-squareslazer2au@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12·4 hours agoI can’t remember where I heard it but I remember someone saying for every 90% shot you miss, how many 10% did you hit and not call unfair.
it’s a 1 in 1000 event, that really hurts (or doesn’t in this case)
We lose the notion of how many shots we fire in the game, so very unlikely events like that are very likely to happen at least once in a playthrough, but they still feel absurd. Our minds simply aren’t made for statistics
I can’t remember where I heard it but I remember someone saying for every 90% shot you miss, how many 10% did you hit and not call unfair.