• Worstdriver@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    36
    arrow-down
    2
    ·
    10 days ago

    It’s also called being ready for anything. It’s what you do when you aren’t entirely sure what the idiot on the other side is going to do.

    The world’s best swordsman isn’t afraid of the second best swordsman. He’s afraid of the world’s worst swordsman, cause he can never be sure what the idiot will do.

    Same principle.

    • Steve@communick.news
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      6
      arrow-down
      11
      ·
      edit-2
      10 days ago

      No it’s not.
      Being ready for anything is having a plan for anything.

      When you can’t know what your opponent might do, you can’t plan. That’s exactly why the best swordsman is afraid of the worst. He’s forced to go without a plan.

      • el_abuelo@programming.dev
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        13
        ·
        10 days ago

        How can anyone be ready for anything if this is the definition.

        Being prepared for anything is about having the skills and tools to solve any problem, any time. On the fly.

        A good general isn’t one who relies on his plan surviving contact with the enemy, it is the one who knows it won’t and is able to respond appropriately and timely.

      • cynar@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        6
        ·
        10 days ago

        Being ready for anything doesn’t mean planing for everything, that’s impossible. They’ve likely planned for the obvious. They also have the resources ready to go to adapt to an unexpected situation.

        A swordsman is t ready to block every conceivable blow. They, instead, prepare to react. If it’s a known attack, they can fall back on a planned move. If it’s abnormal they can react by improvising, using the skills they already have.

        Oh, and the swordsman’s issue isn’t the lack of plan, improvisation is a key skill. The issue of the inability to read the opponent. It throws their instincts out. E.g. an attack looks like a faint, since it would leave the attack open to a lethal counter, even if it connected. An expert would never use that. A beginner might.

        • Steve@communick.news
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          1
          arrow-down
          4
          ·
          edit-2
          10 days ago

          Being ready for anything doesn’t mean planing for everything, that’s impossible.

          Just as impossible as being ready for everything.

          • kent_eh@lemmy.ca
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            3
            ·
            edit-2
            10 days ago

            as impossible as being ready for everything

            I mean, they probably don’t have a contingency prepared for the event of an alien invasion happening at Devil’s Tower…

            But it would be silly to assume they don’t have people keeping an eye on the twits and truthers and whatever other places the MAGAts are congregating to discuss their treasonous plans.