If statement just doesn't work?

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Hello. I’m currently making an ability that stops time (or at least makes everyone stationary). I don’t know if this is the same as the actual ability, but I want the person who stopped time to be able to move. Its a simple adjustment that requires one if statement, but the if statement just doesn’t work. For some reason, the “if not otherPlayer == player” just makes it so that no one is affected by the time stop, and the print statement never runs. No errors appear in the output. abilities.ZaWarudo.OnServerEvent:Connect(function(player)

abilities.ZaWarudo:FireClient(player)

tweenService:Create(game.Lighting.ColorCorrection, tweenInfo, {Saturation = -1}):Play()

local sphereWave = script.SphereWave:Clone()
sphereWave.Parent = workspace
sphereWave.Position = player.Character:FindFirstChild("HumanoidRootPart").Position
tweenService:Create(sphereWave, tweenInfo, {Size = Vector3.new(200, 200, 200), Transparency = 0.25}):Play()

for _, otherPlayer in pairs(game.Players:GetChildren()) do
	if not otherPlayer == player then
		print("Someone has been time stopped")
		RP.RemoteEvents.ChangeStatus:FireClient(otherPlayer, "Stun", 4.5)
	end
end

(Not full script, but enough to showcase the problem)

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Try using the ~= operator instead of if not ___ == ___

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Still doesn’t work for me, but if it did, would be kind of annoying since there is basically no difference.

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Hmm, maybe try debugging by doing something like this:

for _, otherPlayer in pairs(game.Players:GetPlayers()) do -- use :GetPlayers() in case an object in Players exists that isn't a player.
	if not tostring(otherPlayer) == tostring(player) then -- use tostring, just in case the player variable isn't a player for some reason
		print("Someone has been time stopped")
        print(tostring(otherPlayer)..' is not player.')
		RP.RemoteEvents.ChangeStatus:FireClient(otherPlayer, "Stun", 4.5)
	else
        print('otherPlayer is '..tostring(otherPlayer) -- see if this outputs anything
    end
end

Let me know if there’s an output.

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Nothing is outputted. However, I did find a solution. Problem is that the not isn’t affecting the result of “otherPlayer == player” but instead affecting otherPlayer (I think.) I was using Python before Lua, so its weird for me.

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OH yeah, that makes sense.

I think adding brackets like this would work: if not (otherPlayer == player) then

Without the brackets, I think it’s reading it like if (not otherPlayer) == player then if that makes sense.

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