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The Princess Bride (5/12) Movie CLIP - The Battle of Wits (1987) HD

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CLIP DESCRIPTION:
Westley (Cary Elwes) tricks Vizzini (Wallace Shawn) and poisons him, allowing Westley and the Princess (Robin Wright Penn) to escape together.

FILM DESCRIPTION:
Based on William Goldman's novel of the same name, The Princess Bride is staged as a book read by grandfather (Peter Falk) to his ill grandson (Fred Savage). Falk's character assures a romance-weary Savage that the book has much more to deliver than a simpering love story, including but not limited to fencing, fighting, torture, death, true love, giants, and pirates. Indeed, The Princess Bride offers a tongue-in-cheek fairy tale depicting stable boy-turned-pirate Westley's journey to rescue Buttercup (Robin Wright), his true love, away from the evil prince (Chris Sarandon), whom she had agreed to marry five years after learning of what she had believed to be news of Westley's death. With help from Prince Humperdinck's disgruntled former employee Miracle Max (Billy Crystal), swordsman Inigo Montoya (Mandy Patinkin), and a very large man named Fezzik (Andre the Giant), the star-crossed lovers are reunited.

CREDITS:
TM & © MGM (1987)
Cast: Cary Elwes, Wallace Shawn, Robin Wright Penn
Director: Rob Reiner
Producers: Norman Lear, Rob Reiner, Andrew Scheinman, Jeffrey Stott, Steve Nicolaides
Screenwriter: William Goldman

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This reminds me of the following scene.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMz7JBRbmNo

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Eh, I will admit that I hoped for a little more after the effort I expended on this conversation. Sadly, you decided to not answer to any questions, but resorted to a.. lets call it a visual aid with little to no relevance to the conversation at hand ( which I will not comment on further ).

In short, I no longer believe you engaged in good faith discussion. Fare well.

Aug 15, 2022 · morley on Second-Order Thinking
Leveled thinking is common in competitive games, for obvious reasons. There's no better illustration of what you're talking about than the poison scene in Princess Bride:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMz7JBRbmNo

The way I've heard most competitive gamers talk about the line between leveling and tail-chasing is to play at level 2:

Level 1: The obvious strategy

Level 2: Strategy that beats the obvious strategy <-- Default to this level

Level 3: Strategy that beats level 1

The problem is, if you're playing in a competitive environment, everyone knows about leveling, so you may actually gain more edge by picking a strategy randomly. I've heard competitive Magic player Huey Jensen would make random plays when he was behind on the chance he could throw his opponent off and trap them in leveling second-guessing.

Pretty sure Wittgenstein was trolling his friend. But a clever man would have known. . . https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMz7JBRbmNo
Truly, you have a dizzying intellect [1].

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[1] https://youtu.be/rMz7JBRbmNo

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