IceBrand Posted December 5, 2013 Share Posted December 5, 2013 (edited) Personally I believe in it since I've had a few lucky situation happen. Edited December 6, 2013 by AllAroundGamer9 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Randa Posted December 5, 2013 Share Posted December 5, 2013 Yes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shadowofchaos Posted December 5, 2013 Share Posted December 5, 2013 I inherited my father's bad luck. Not Pilot level mind you... You'll only get this if you lurk in the FE4 thread. I wholeheartedly believe in luck... but I also believe in "making your own luck" when things really don't go your way. Effort can overcome it. That's what works for me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nobody Posted December 5, 2013 Share Posted December 5, 2013 No. I believe in probabilities. Sometimes bad things happen, but they are in no way bound to certain people. It's possible that a lot of bad random things happened to you during your life, but it won't affect random future things in any way. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darros Posted December 5, 2013 Share Posted December 5, 2013 Of course, it's only the most critical stat in the fire emblem series. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vashiane Posted December 5, 2013 Share Posted December 5, 2013 ... Sort of. See, luck is nothing but one giant configuration of probabilities throughout your life. "Luck" is more of something you achieve by chance, some sort of skill you're just born with. Probabilities can be altered through your own choices and effort, unlike luck. So... I suppose, in a very roundabout sense, I do. I just don't HAVE any... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Refa Posted December 5, 2013 Share Posted December 5, 2013 Of course, it's only the most critical stat in the fire emblem series. Luck doesn't even affect crit rate in most of the FE games, baka Darros. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thor Odinson Posted December 5, 2013 Share Posted December 5, 2013 I believe in math Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NinjaMonkey Posted December 5, 2013 Share Posted December 5, 2013 Considering how well I tend to do at mini-games based on random chance in Mario Party, I do indeed believe in luck. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dwarfishh Posted December 5, 2013 Share Posted December 5, 2013 As a musician, I am almost obliged to believe in luck to some degree. Nowhere near enough talent to succeed But yeah, even if you believe in probability, there's still an element of chance, which is more or less what luck is, if I'm not mistaken. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thor Odinson Posted December 5, 2013 Share Posted December 5, 2013 (edited) I'm an applied math major I spend my time studying statistics it's all random variables to me now Edited December 5, 2013 by Thor Odinson Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tables Posted December 5, 2013 Share Posted December 5, 2013 What do you mean by, do you believe in luck? Is the question essentially this: If two people roll a dice or took part in another similar game of chance, each having no knowledge or ability to intentionally or unintentionally influence the game, then is one more likely to win than the other just by virtue of their inherit luck? If that is the idea being discussed, I think the entire idea is ludicrous and would be totally contradictory to how science says the universe behaves. For example, if such a thing did exist, then the rational thing to do would be find such 'lucky' individuals and take them to a casino with large amounts of money, in order to both win at any games where their 'luck' is greater than the house edge of the game. The sheer fact that this isn't happening is evidence (although not decisive evidence) that it doesn't exist. Considering that 75% of people haven't voted no to this (at time of posting) I'm going to hope my interpretation of what the question is asking is wrong... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dondon151 Posted December 5, 2013 Share Posted December 5, 2013 yeah i really don't know what this question means Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chiki Posted December 5, 2013 Share Posted December 5, 2013 No, I don't think chance exists. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rehab Posted December 5, 2013 Share Posted December 5, 2013 I believe that both good and bad things can happen to people without their having any chance to control them, if that's what you mean, but I don't think their happening is necessarily a sign of anything in particular. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phoenix Wright Posted December 5, 2013 Share Posted December 5, 2013 (edited) do you believe in magic in a young girl's heart how the music can free her, whenever it starts edit: no. when i tell someone they got lucky, i'm really just jealous that something cool happened to them ("ah, you got to meet him? lucky!") Edited December 5, 2013 by Phoenix Wright Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aizenberg Posted December 5, 2013 Share Posted December 5, 2013 when it comes to luck, its usually a 50/50 situation Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MJThom_2009 Posted December 6, 2013 Share Posted December 6, 2013 If I believe in luck, I would not suffer horribly in some situations like try to win something. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jiac Posted December 6, 2013 Share Posted December 6, 2013 I believe in luck through Forrest Gump,he is dumb as f*** but he is extremely lucky.Might luck is pretty moderate.60/40 kind of thing.Where I can get extremely lucky sometimes but my luck is poor.So it balances it out.Like once I had bad luck by not winning something using probability where you can win $100 through a lottery type thing only a week later I found $120 in $20s on the floor when I went to eat Spam Musubi at a School Event.So it's like you have poor luck,but when you wait you become luckier than Lucky Charms. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pinkbubblegum Posted December 6, 2013 Share Posted December 6, 2013 Hmm. I'm not entirely sure myself since "luck" sounds so broad and vague xD;I guess not...? I don't believe there's a hidden luck stat each person has that can make their results lean for the better haha. When something good happens to me or another person it's not like I immediately think, "Woah. I bet I/ they're lucky!" and everything else will go their way. Saying "How lucky!" is more like a figure of speech for me. It's a way to empathize with them/ be glad for the good thing that happened to them, not an actual statement that believes in a luck factor xD Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BK-201 Posted December 6, 2013 Share Posted December 6, 2013 What do you mean by, do you believe in luck? Is the question essentially this: If two people roll a dice or took part in another similar game of chance, each having no knowledge or ability to intentionally or unintentionally influence the game, then is one more likely to win than the other just by virtue of their inherit luck? If that is the idea being discussed, I think the entire idea is ludicrous and would be totally contradictory to how science says the universe behaves. For example, if such a thing did exist, then the rational thing to do would be find such 'lucky' individuals and take them to a casino with large amounts of money, in order to both win at any games where their 'luck' is greater than the house edge of the game. The sheer fact that this isn't happening is evidence (although not decisive evidence) that it doesn't exist. Considering that 75% of people haven't voted no to this (at time of posting) I'm going to hope my interpretation of what the question is asking is wrong... I decided to view it as whether or not some people are benefited more by probability than others. While they all have an equal chance, the person who wins is "lucky" since probability favored him. In the aggregate, some people are blessed more by probability than others but this isn't due to them being naturally favored so much as the cards panning out as they did. On the other hand, that really causes the question to be whether I believe in probability and I'm still left unsure of whether I answered the actual question or my interpretation of it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tables Posted December 6, 2013 Share Posted December 6, 2013 I decided to view it as whether or not some people are benefited more by probability than others. While they all have an equal chance, the person who wins is "lucky" since probability favored him. In the aggregate, some people are blessed more by probability than others but this isn't due to them being naturally favored so much as the cards panning out as they did. On the other hand, that really causes the question to be whether I believe in probability and I'm still left unsure of whether I answered the actual question or my interpretation of it. Yeah, that makes sense. If you have e.g. ~13,983,816 people playing the (UK) lottery and each picks a different number, one of them is guaranteed to be 'lucky' and win the jackpot, some will will the 5 number reward, and around 98% will walk away with nothing and be 'unlucky'. That's going to happen. What I reject is the notion that there's any way of guessing with better than 1/13983816 odds who will win, assuming the machine is unbiased. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rapier Posted December 10, 2013 Share Posted December 10, 2013 No. I believe in probabilities. Sometimes bad things happen, but they are in no way bound to certain people. It's possible that a lot of bad random things happened to you during your life, but it won't affect random future things in any way. This. I believe in luck, but I give it a different meaning altogether: It's just a bunch of probabilities and variables that people don't quite grasp, so they try to associate it with the supernatural. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MacLovin Posted December 12, 2013 Share Posted December 12, 2013 yes Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Raven Posted December 21, 2013 Share Posted December 21, 2013 Luck is about to save Indianapolis Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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