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Comment author: Document 25 August 2013 07:36:17AM *  0 points [-]

sometimes I get surprised by PCs behaving predictably, including predictably wrong.

Is this a clever "paradoxical" description of what happens that I'm not quite parsing, or is it just a contradiction?

Comment author: Decius 27 August 2013 12:37:48AM 2 points [-]

The expected action of someone more agenty than oneself, when confronted with certain situations, is to take an action which falls into the category "all others".

When they pick "repeat the same course of action which just failed", it is surprising that they picked a predictable response, rather than a response not contained in the predictions.