• mindbleach@sh.itjust.works
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    11 months ago

    > Low-skill games are where you’d expect

    the part everyone’s performatively sneering at. We’re talking about smurfing. We’re talking about matches between newbies. Stop making me underline this. Y’all can read.

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      11 months ago

      For clarity, “low skill games” doesn’t refer to video or board games that require little skill (e.g. Chutes and Ladders, Tic Tac Toe, etc.) but rather individual matches between low-skill players in games where there is a distance between skill floor and ceiling?

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        11 months ago

        Yes.

        The kind of matches where smurfing is relevant.

        Smurfing, the topic explicitly referenced by “if good players wading in among the noobs is such a huge problem.”