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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
He might be able to sense the ink through the lamination, through scent or touch, but I don't know.
As for Spidey not outwitting Kingpin— poker's not only a game of skill. You can play as smart as you want, but unless you cheat, eventually some hands are going to come down to luck. And yet it's not luck alone that lets Spider-Man win— it's audacity. It's the courage to bet when it's not a sure thing. It's about not backing down even if you might very well lose everything. That's the metaphor here.
Four of a kind is pretty f*cking close to a sure thing. Bluffing with a losing hand is audacity. Betting with a nigh-unbeatable one is just letting the math do its job.
Those games we see in fiction a lot where it's like, "Aha! Four of a kind!" "Ahaha, Straight Flush!" "Ahahaha, ROYAL FLUSH, motherf*ckers!" basically never happen. If you've got a four of a kind, it's extremely unlikely that anyone else at the table's going to beat you.
Full house is typically as good as hands get. Anything above that and you're basically guaranteed the win, which means your job becomes bluffing down so that others don't realize how powerful your hand is. Which we should have seen Spidey doing. That's where the whole, "Aha!" moment could have come in.
But we don't. We're never given the impression that Spidey actually did something to lead Fisk to assume he simply had Two Pair. We just see Fisk make the assumption and be wrong.
edited 8th Apr '17 12:29:05 PM by TobiasDrake
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I was never fond of poker. Partially because I suck at it.
I always preferred chess.
Fisk and Murdock playing a high stakes game of chess suits their characters well, and it's a game DD wouldn't have a supernatural advantage over Fisk.
"All you Fascists bound to lose."I feel like Murdock's blindness would be even more of a factor in chess than in poker. He's hyperaware, not hyperintelligent. There exist people who are such great masters of the game that they can play entirely off a mental picture of the board, but we've never been given an indication that super-IQ is one of Matt's powers.
And as funny as it would be to watch Matt constantly manhandle the board, I just don't think that would work well.
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.> Would spider-sense work for sensing whether he's about to lose a lot of money?
Spider sense only works when he's about to be attacked so losing a lot of money isn't really the same thing,although I suppose for a humorous gag you could say it was an attack on his wallet
edited 8th Apr '17 12:36:18 PM by Ultimatum
have a listen and have a link to my discord serverBut Matt would be able to "see" the board and the pieces. If nothing else, his sonar can detect their shapes and positions in the board.
"All you Fascists bound to lose."Does his radar pick up silent, stationary objects? I thought he was at least somewhat dependant on movement.
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.I think if he didn't he'd constantly be walking against walls.
As far as I'm aware, real life "sonars" some blind people have developed do detect stationary objects. All they need is sound, like a clicking sound (so they can hear that sound reverberating from the walls/chesspieces/chesbsoard/what have you).
Even if Matt's sonar was low-key enough to require a clicking sound to function (which it clearly doesn't), there's the chess clock, which would make the noise required for a sonar to map the environment.
edited 8th Apr '17 12:43:26 PM by Gaon
"All you Fascists bound to lose."Bats also aren't actually blind, though.
But yeah, Matt would be able to percieve a stationary chessboard. Even if it were dead silent, he could probably sense the shifting of air contorting around the pieces, or some crazy shit like that. He's crazy good.
You cannot firmly grasp the true form of Squidward's technique!I mean, people have way more than just five senses
anyway and if those senses for Matt are also increased, there's not much he can't see. I mean, he's been shown able to "see" through doors and down five floors and so on. Heck, there's even human echolocation
, too.
edited 8th Apr '17 1:21:39 PM by alliterator
There's a lot of senses people don't even know they have. Balance. Proprioception. As an extension of touch, you can feel vibrations in the air, air pressure in a room. I assume the latter two are important in terms of the whole 'world on fire' thing', along with being able to read scents on objects, as well as smelling the objects themselves.
I knew a guy who liked to say his superpower was W-Ray Vision, which allowed him to see the exterior of objects he was looking at.
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edited 8th Apr '17 11:23:14 AM by Gaon
"All you Fascists bound to lose."