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From: plutchak@uwmacc.UUCP (Joel Plutchak)
Newsgroups: net.games.rogue
Subject: Re: rogue
Message-ID: <1119@uwmacc.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 22-May-85 10:43:50 EDT
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Posted: Wed May 22 10:43:50 1985
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References: <105@agrigene.UUCP> <1022@vax1.fluke.UUCP>
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In article <1022@vax1.fluke.UUCP> tron@fluke.UUCP (Peter Barbee) writes:
>In my humble opinion being a total winner is a rare occurence.  It happens
>almost exclusively to people who have played enough rogue to a) learn to
>not make any stupid mistakes and b) get lucky (with the game essentially 
>controlled by a RNG winning is ultimately determined by luck).  In other
>words by the time you are a good enough player to win your skill is no
>longer the controlling factor in the game - luck is.
>
>Tronius Themoseus 

   And then there are the hackers who need to cheat (e.g. edit rogue definition
files) to win.
-- 
 -joel 
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