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<blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 8307432" data-attributes="member: 18"><p>Well then how the hell do you think that's true? It's obviously false. I've done all three activities regularly when I was younger. Obviously in D&D terms I would have a relatively high INT for better or worse, but the idea that I was standing there calculating trajectories on anything but the slowest-ass laziest stuff is just ludicrous. It's absolutely unreasonable. You going to try and tell me the smart kids were good at javelin? Because they sure as hell were not. Our top javelin guy was one of the dumbest kids in the year, just really tall, long-limbed and kinda strong.</p><p></p><p>It's particularly as you must know that people can't even throw far or accurately without a lot of practice and a lot of strength.</p><p></p><p>I used to be a particularly good clay pigeon shooter, to the point where I was better than adults, when I was aged 10-14, and it certainly wasn't down to "intelligence" and "calculating trajectories". Sure I could see where to aim, but a lot of people as smart as me or smarter, like, say my brother, were absolute nowhere near as good at shooting moving targets.</p><p></p><p>Or even just go watch some videos of people firing the kind of high-pull medieval bows used in D&D, and firing them rapidly, YouTube is full of them, come back and tell me how brainy those dudes are and how it's their brains and not the fact that they have the dexterity to aim and load a 160lb-pull long bow and the staggering strength to fire it and keep firing it.</p><p></p><p>Ironically the one sport certain of the smarter kids did excel at was fencing, possibly because of the lightning-fast back-and-forth and the need to track right-of-way as you fenced. I could easy smash someone's guard aside in saber when I suddenly started getting bigger, but that didn't mean I necessarily had right-of-way.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ruin Explorer, post: 8307432, member: 18"] Well then how the hell do you think that's true? It's obviously false. I've done all three activities regularly when I was younger. Obviously in D&D terms I would have a relatively high INT for better or worse, but the idea that I was standing there calculating trajectories on anything but the slowest-ass laziest stuff is just ludicrous. It's absolutely unreasonable. You going to try and tell me the smart kids were good at javelin? Because they sure as hell were not. Our top javelin guy was one of the dumbest kids in the year, just really tall, long-limbed and kinda strong. It's particularly as you must know that people can't even throw far or accurately without a lot of practice and a lot of strength. I used to be a particularly good clay pigeon shooter, to the point where I was better than adults, when I was aged 10-14, and it certainly wasn't down to "intelligence" and "calculating trajectories". Sure I could see where to aim, but a lot of people as smart as me or smarter, like, say my brother, were absolute nowhere near as good at shooting moving targets. Or even just go watch some videos of people firing the kind of high-pull medieval bows used in D&D, and firing them rapidly, YouTube is full of them, come back and tell me how brainy those dudes are and how it's their brains and not the fact that they have the dexterity to aim and load a 160lb-pull long bow and the staggering strength to fire it and keep firing it. Ironically the one sport certain of the smarter kids did excel at was fencing, possibly because of the lightning-fast back-and-forth and the need to track right-of-way as you fenced. I could easy smash someone's guard aside in saber when I suddenly started getting bigger, but that didn't mean I necessarily had right-of-way. [/QUOTE]
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