Yu-Gi-Oh! aptitude
Oct. 15th, 2016 11:19 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mtbcBenjamin likes the collectible card game
I have wondered if this suggests any future career for Benjamin. The larger challenge is probably that of finding something that interests him sufficiently but I do think that it may be important to note if it is the kind of thing where Benjamin's facility with sizable rule systems affords him unusual advantage.
Yu-Gi-Oh!and indeed there are now many more such cards than people in the world. I am okay with games like
Magic: The Gatheringand I usually do well with complex systems of rules but Yu-Gi-Oh! overwhelms me with tedious detail: there are so many cards each with their own special rules and interactions with other cards that the optimization problem of deck-building seems thorny indeed.
I have wondered if this suggests any future career for Benjamin. The larger challenge is probably that of finding something that interests him sufficiently but I do think that it may be important to note if it is the kind of thing where Benjamin's facility with sizable rule systems affords him unusual advantage.
