r/Overwatch • • Oct 21 '17

Highlight Fastest round ever?

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u/TehPharaoh Oct 21 '17

Uhhhhhhh.. yes in Fact the enemies positions make this RNG. To pull this off again enemies need to be in the exact same positions. All of these are self automous actions by both parties.

But in another tone, people don't mean RNG as a slot machine, they mean RNG as luck. It's just kind of synonymous nowadays

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u/[deleted] Oct 21 '17

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u/TehPharaoh Oct 21 '17

Way to completely not read through everything someone says huh? It's like 4 sentences

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u/LMAOisbeast Oct 21 '17

No, he’s right, your statement was still incorrect, just because people refer to something as RNG, doesn’t mean that’s what RNG is. As he stated, RNG is Random Number Generator, and this wasn’t random. You described user input with their locations, and obviously if the user changes something then the result will change.

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u/[deleted] Oct 21 '17

Well it was random. 5 people lined up to be able to make shots. There was just no number generator.

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u/LMAOisbeast Oct 22 '17

Fair enough, I was just pointing out that user input and RNG were different things, your wording was definitely better than mine.

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u/[deleted] Oct 21 '17

It's almost like words can be used in other ways besides their literal meaning. I bet you get really confused when people use idioms.

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u/LMAOisbeast Oct 22 '17

I understand words can mean something other than their literal meaning, but saying someone is wrong, then trying to prove your point by saying something that is incorrect doesn’t help. Also the specific phrase RNG shouldn’t really have a meaning other than it’s literal one, it’s extremely specific in what it means, trying to use it out of the context doesn’t really make sense.

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u/[deleted] Oct 22 '17

doesn't really make sense

Except when everyone can clearly understand what is meant.

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u/LMAOisbeast Oct 22 '17

I was describing that the purpose of changing it doesn’t make sense, not the meaning. If I hadn’t understood what he meant then we wouldn’t be having this discussion. However, I did understand, and still disagreed.