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?
Sorry to say but it’s highly abnormal to require that much mental effort to play rocks paper scissors
Perhaps they’re going slightly too fast but what you’ve described sounds close to disability if you’re having that much trouble doing basic things like thinking between 3 options, seeing a basic hand shape, and making a basic hand shape
It probably is categorized as some sort of disability, one which I’m sure the great USA wouldn’t even recognize.
My vision without glasses is extremely nearsighted, like 20/500 nearsighted. And I didn’t get glasses until age 8, which means I didn’t adapt very well to recognizing detailed anatomy such as facial expressions or hand shapes quickly.
Its not that I can’t, I’m just too slow at recognizing such features in motion to be of any everyday expected practical use.
Not much you can do but try to work around it best you can 🤷♀️ your burden from sensory processing is quite high and that’s made worse by missing out on some critical developmental timings
Maybe you could pre-choose stuff and simply try to work on your timing so at least from their perspective it appears you’re playing normally
It’s not divergent; it’s just a different approach. If you played RPS 100 times, you’d start to get an non-processing approach.
And then once you’ve mastered that, you have to add Lizard and Spock!
I’m loosely familiar with that game too, but damn that would just make hand signs effectively impossible for me…
I think it’s just practice. I also need time to think through what’s happening, but I have only played it a few times in my life. I’m not used to it.
We start out slowly with any new things. Then you do it a lot, over and over, and you don’t have to think about it anymore.
Your step number five has me a little confused. When they throw their sign, such as paper. They hold it until you also recognize either that you won or lost. There would be no point in the flashing this symbol of paper or rock or scissors so fast that the other side didn’t even register what was there. That would just create arguments.
I’ve had work managers request me to play before, to assign job duties. They’d play in 3 seconds flat, and wouldn’t slow down for you.
I refused to play, just because how quickly they expected the game to go. I wasn’t the only employee in that slow RPS boat either.
Not sure who down voted you. But yeah they are playing the game wrong
Trusty rock!
Try blinking
Playing it since the kindergarten helps.
When you play RPS with civilized individuals, you’re meant to speak aloud your chosen object at the same time as creating the shape with your hand. The winner then proclaims victory by saying “mine”, and the next round begins.
You lost the game… 👌
