I'm not saying that Nauz isn't abrasive, but he is not wrong that people who are not good are much less likely to understand what it takes to be good than those who are.
I never said he was wrong when saying this. It is true that people who aren't as good are less likely to understand what it takes to be good. That doesn't mean they can't know, or can't spread the knowledge they have from listening to those who are good.
Just because you are better than someone also doesn't mean you can cast their opinion aside because they are, to put it in Nauz's words, a shitty player.
The sentence "Your opinion holds no value cata, because you, like Japanball, are a shitty player." is absolute bullshit. First off, it's about an opinion. An opinion might have less value if it comes from someone who isn't as informed on the topic. But an opinion will never hold no value.
Besides that, if Nauz really is that much better, he could've easily proven Cata wrong. Write a short bit on how he is wrong. Don't just cast him aside cause he's not as good, thus whatever he says holds no value (usually until they agree with you, then their opinion strangely does get a value to it).
The reason I replied is that Nauz's reaction was childish and dumb. If he is bashing someone else for saying something that is, in his eyes, not true, then he should provide some form of an argument. Saying "you're not as good as me so you're wrong and I'm right" is one of the most stupid and annoying things one can do. Either have a normal argument or shut the fuck up. Don't use this kind of stupid logic to try and "prove" something.
If you give mod 1 minute turns he'll still beat almost anyone even if they spend hours bean counting.
But how much of that is experience? If you let get a decent player vs. MoD on a template neither of them has ever played, an unknown map for both, no standard settings. Nullify both their experience in the game as much as possible. Then do someone who has 1 minute to do their turn, and do someone to bean count. Otherwise, you are, in my opinion, not testing the influence of bean counting. If you let MoD (or any decent player) play on MME with 1 minute time they won't have a lot of problems. But then again, we have lots of experience on that template. Any template that is also 0% SR becomes easier to play as well because of that. I'm not saying WL is only bean counting (it obviously isnt), but to try and reduce it to a factor that is of little importance is silly imo.
The entire term "beancounting" is also insulting and demonizing.
It's basically an argument that because you can predict the outcome of actions that the game is somehow less skill-based.
I don't see how a term is an argument for that. The term itself just means you are calculating the small numbers to be cost-effective. This doesn't mean that the game is less skill-based. It just means that you can calculate a lot.
