As a more contrete (maybe) counter to shraeye: I made guesses prior to drafting on what powers 13 of the 20 items give, and I wasn't very far off based on what I know now.
For the apologists who claim I'm just misunderstanding his wording...the statement in full, explained with color-coding:
"I made guesses prior to drafting on what powers 13 of the 20 items give, and I wasn't very far off based on what I know now."
In all cases, the "I" in that sentence refers to faust.
Per the statement:
--faust made 13 guesses
--faust made those guesses prior to drafting
--his qualitative statement regarding those guesses is based off of the cumulative knowledge he has gain up to the point of posting that statement
--his guesses were not very far off, where I posit "very far off" would mean "very inaccurate"
If faust wants to retcon an "ash just can't understand" explanation into this, his only real leg to stand on is to argue that "not very far off" meant "not very inaccurate" which can technically be taken to mean just "inaccurate" as oppose to "very inaccurate." However, given he was using this statement to counter the argument that the items cannot be known in advance, that would seem disingenuous to me.
I wrote "based on what I know now". I knew what 2 of the items of the items did. They roughly matched what I imagined. Based on this being all information available to you, if you had to make a guess whether another item was also close to what I predicted, what would it be?
I would guess that you would be wrong. Chance of flipping heads that many times in a row is tiny, no? And given you have two outcomes — right or wrong — and each time is a random guess...
Do you really not see the arrogance in your statement?
I’m not a doctor nor do I have any medical training. 20 people I have never met before come up to me, all suffering from unknown illnesses. I make guesses for how to cure them. The first two work! I declare myself a superhuman god with amazing powers none has ever seen before and now all of humanity (well, those 20 at least) are saved.
That’s what you did, just with different subjects. That of you are mafia, which would excuse everything.
Just lynch me if you are going to maintain this charade.