Ok, onto the topic of online calculaters etc.
First off, I want to start off with a boring story that I heard on the radio the other day regarding the Colorado shooting at the Batman movie…
The guest was talking about one of the biggest problems we have in society has to do with the younger generation not being able to cope with society and a lot of it has to do with the fact that they are so techniologically driven, it is like don’t know how to interact FTF with others. THey were saying that it is so sad that the younger generation doesn’t know how to communicate with others because it is so much easier to text and avoid any type of relationship FTF. From dating, to friends at school, Work etc…
Where I am going with this is that what we are talking about is kind of the same thing when it comes to FTF vs. online play. I AM NOT TRYING TO SAY ONE IS BETTER THAN THE OTHER, just that, with online play, people do it because one, they have a hard time getting games to play just period, and then there is the factors that they get used to playing without human interaction, when it does happen, they have no idea how to deal with it.
Ex. I believe somewhere back I used an example of a guys that would rather play Settlers online because when he plays FTF, he hates the interaction with others and the possiblity of something completely off the wall that might be logical in a ftf setting but when playing online, would never happen.
The point I am trying to make is the use of AI in a FTF event. I would like that a professor of your stature would understand the simplicity of why I typically don’t permit electronic devices in tournment games at the CON’s. If one wants to do the math in their head and right it down, AND IT DOES NOT TAKE AWAY FROM THE GAME AT HAND, then have at it. And as long as your opponent can do the same thing without taking away from the game at hand, have at it.
But I don’t care if an app on ones phone is free, or easily accessable to you and the other 5% that might be intersted in that, if your opponent sits down and doesn’t have their phone with them, and doesn’t have the app you have, then I am not going to permit it.
And that has nothing to do with “getting with the times”. It has to do with learning how to play a game for what it is, playing well and without all the ads that one can get off line.
If one can’t understand that, then I have to question anyones understanding of the learning process and means to be good at something in ones head and not using AI to aid us in our decisions.
That is what I call getting with the times and being good at what you do.
