8th May 2004, 8:19 PM
Actually, I check the damage for each and every attack. I do it real time too. I always have done that. It's important for me to know the results of every single move so I can know exactly how low the enemy's HP is. Just trusting my character to "ballpark" it without looking just isn't my style. I get it from the Japanese RPGs, where I do the same thing. On that note, every Japanese RPG I've played does in fact display damage numbers on every attack, not hide them. So no, I wouldn't say it's a case of "only counting the hits and not the misses". Thanks to snopes, I'm very wary of falling into that trap. My overall performance ACROSS battles just isn't so important to me as my performance in a SINGLE battle. I tend to live in the moment. Of course, that means I am very bad at chess (don't get me wrong, I like chess, I'm just not good at it because I'm not good at thinking ahead, just in the moment, like Solid Snake, which is probably why he becomes the main tool of so many conspiracies...), but I'm very GOOD at those snap decisions that make or break a fight, or at least I think so.
You already said your opinion though, and I said mine, and it's obviuosly just a matter of taste, so why actually go about trying to CONVINCE the other person after that? Don't defend it with "just saying my opinion", you're dwelling on something that I don't want to talk about. I mean no disrespect, but you do tend to have a habit of making a big deal out of nothing. I have a "low level" opinion here. I have a hard time explaning it, but honestly, I think it needs explaining. People can have opinions on things that aren't completely "I will fight to the end because of how totally right I am!" level opinions. The opinions I have on right and wrong and religion are the ones I totally BELIEVE in, but things like this? It's just an "eh, yeah I think that" sort of thing. Not a full mind totally dedicated to it thing. Basically, all I'm asking is that you find why a person thinks something, and if it's a minor issue, and the other person doesn't really want to argue about it, you should just let it go for what it is.
You already said your opinion though, and I said mine, and it's obviuosly just a matter of taste, so why actually go about trying to CONVINCE the other person after that? Don't defend it with "just saying my opinion", you're dwelling on something that I don't want to talk about. I mean no disrespect, but you do tend to have a habit of making a big deal out of nothing. I have a "low level" opinion here. I have a hard time explaning it, but honestly, I think it needs explaining. People can have opinions on things that aren't completely "I will fight to the end because of how totally right I am!" level opinions. The opinions I have on right and wrong and religion are the ones I totally BELIEVE in, but things like this? It's just an "eh, yeah I think that" sort of thing. Not a full mind totally dedicated to it thing. Basically, all I'm asking is that you find why a person thinks something, and if it's a minor issue, and the other person doesn't really want to argue about it, you should just let it go for what it is.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)