Some people think luck, or karma, or whatever you prefer, is real. Some people think that if you carry around a 4 leaf clover you get good luck, or if you walk under a ladder, you get bad luck, while others just believe that their luck is generally either good or bad. Then some people don’t actually believe it, but still use the word, such as “I was lucky I got that kill” or something along those lines. I’ve always thought that luck doesn’t exist, that everything is just complete chance, but sometimes I’m not so sure
I don’t know why, but on online games, I have generally always had some amount of bad luck. In CoD, for example, I would complain about things that none of my friends ever dealt with. Using a more recent CoD, in the Blops 3 beta I would constantly get blown up by what seemed like neverending explosions due to being able to spawn with multiple grenades, as well as having special explosive weapons like the bow and the grenade launcher, and we all know that all the CoD developers try their hardest to put as many explosive killstreaks in the game as possible, but none of my friends said they had the same issue. I just attributed it to bad luck. In Blops 1, when playing with a certain friend of mine, I could never get my killstreak rewards, but when he would leave, I could get all 3 of them. It didn’t make sense to me why that would happen, so I just attribute it to bad luck
Sadly, this bad luck has absolutely ruined certain games for me. I have never quit a game as fast as I quit MW3. I just couldn’t take all the stupid things that would happen to me on there. My bad luck has completely ruined Halo 5 for me. 99% of my deaths aren’t even anything I could prevent. For example, I have the worst luck with spawns I have ever seen. There’s no telling how many of my total Halo 5 deaths are attributed to spawning near multiple enemies and dying within seconds. It also always seems like the enemies I fight ALWAYS have that one weapon that will counter and beat me. If I have the AR, they have the SMG. If I have the SMG, they have the Scattershot or Shotgun. Those are just a few examples of what I mean. For some reason, Halo 5 seems to be the absolute worst Halo game for getting team killed by people. I swear almost every one of my deaths is because I couldn’t get a fair 1 on 1 fight. I know Halo is about teamwork, but Jesus. The sad thing is I don’t even put myself in those situations, they just happen, usually wherever I spawn at, which goes back to what I said about being killed within seconds. For some reason, enemy grenades DO NOT MISS and are always perfect on me. Whenever I’m in a group of teammates and an enemy decides they wanna ground pound or charge someone, they literally almost always choose me. I don’t know how it’s always me, but it is. I’ve even had enemies sprint right through my teammates to go for me. Even though I’ve played a ton of Halo over the years and spent a lot of time practicing and getting better, I can’t do anything but come at the bottom of every game I play on Halo 5, and it always seems to be due to bad luck screwing me at every turn
Anyway, you get the point. My bad luck has made it impossible for me to enjoy Halo 5 and many other games. I know some people would say “get gud kid” but you’re welcome to play with me and see how hardly any of my deaths were actually my fault. I don’t think luck is actually a real thing, but I don’t know how else to explain my awful time with games, and how I can have a terrible experience with a game and several friends can say they didn’t deal with any of the things I deal with. Let’s just say if there is some kind of mysterious force out there called luck, I would not wish my luck on anyone in the world, no matter how much I hate them
So do you believe in luck? Maybe not the whole black cat, 4 leaf clover kind of luck, but just a general force that seems to sometimes be in your favor and other times just ruins your day, but is not mere chance?