Vidya games!
Specifically, any games requiring “twitch” reflexes. I love ‘em, but I do not have the genetic material to master them.
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I was the opposite, hated games that required patience, now I'm like you, I used to full focus play games, now I multitask and watch tv, wonder if that changed it
Video games. I play a lot of them, and I suck at all of them, but I’ll be damned if I don’t enjoy them.
no shame in switching to easy. I personally don't have the time to "git good" but I do enjoy me a good story
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is where I caved and set it on easy. Don't got all day to memorize a bajillion attack patterns down to the tenth of a second but shieet... that story is a banger.
Ah yup. I'm pretty good at the single player games that I play, but whenever my buddies want to do any kind of matchmaking, it's some of the best fun I have being absolutely awful at something. Consistently at the bottom of the squad and loving it, baby
Music.
I'm a shitty musician, but I love it. Guitar, keyboard, clarinet, I love playing.
Same, got Rocksmith and a couple bass guitars. Love it, but even after five years I'm not willing to try playing in front of anyone.
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Singing & drawing. I do also try to do things I am not naturally good at on purpose, because I am not good at them, though I wouldn't say I enjoy those things. Ended up enjoying gardening that way, cooking, dancing, and am good at those now, and enjoy them. Spanish, any language except English I suck but keep trying.
Chess. It's taken me a few years to climb from 400 to 800 elo (1100 on lichess). Then I see comments from people who say "I got to 1000 after I learned how the pieces move" and it's so demoralizing
Speling
You’ve done a good job! You used sound and letter knowledge along with phonemes to encode your answer. Often when adding a suffix of -ing to a word, you will need to double your consonant.
I’m proud of your attempt. All you’re missing is an extra L after the first one!
Thank you for helpping out! My spelling is gooder already!
Such a cunning linguist.
RTS games.
Same. I don't like playing RTS games the good way. I just like building a cozy little camp and defending it, slowly exploring the map and just building whatever units I feel like building. I enjoy games like Age of Empires and Beyond All Reason because the maps tend to be quite large and random. It usually takes a while before I get overwhelmed if I'm losing I those games, and if I'm winning I can spend a lot of time just messing around without the game being over.
Games like Starcraft or Warcraft seem to be built too much for quick games where you have to be constantly moving. Expansion locations are very determined and scarce and resources run out way too fast to just turtle in my little corner.
+1 for Beyond All Reason :)
So far I've only played against the simple AI bots and some easy barbarians; mostly I team up with my kids and we just try out different ways to mess around. Fun times.
Yeah I also tend to play against the bots. Me and my friends have hundreds of hours against the AI at this point. Nowadays we tend to play against the Hard Barbarian AI. We usually win, but the AI can be very variable and sometimes it just turns on and destroys us. If we manage to expand aggressively in the early game, manage to contest roughly half the map (or have a good choke point), we can survive the early onslaught and out-eco the AI in the late game. Which is the most fun way of winning imo. Chill behind defences and slowly get the upper hand until we waltz over the AI with experimental units. We did ban ourselves from "cheesy" tactics like nuking the AI, target bombing their economy, or aggressively targeting our long range artillery at their economy. The AI just doesn't seem to sufficiently defend against these and it quickly ends the game in a lame way. Unless we're losing hard, then everything is permitted.
After the first few campaigns, all my hours get logged with mods and God mode, ain't nobody got time to constantly grind for weeks, my campaign needs to wrap up by the end of the day!
Sleeping. Being happy.
I'm not bad at these I'm just out of practice 😢😴
my job
Sewing, mending, repairing clothes. I am really bad at it. Also knitting. I will never be able to understand wtf I am seeing.
Just about anything creative: music, art, writing. It doesn’t stop me from trying, but it’s clear the creative vision or raw talent that some others have is missing.
Dancing. I did go to a party last week with a DJ and danced my ass off anyway.
pretty much everything i do.
I'm an amateur at most things, don't have the time/money/energy to become an expert in anything really. But I like trying new stuff all the time. I've learned 6 different foreign languages, but am fluent in none of them, for example.
Disc golf
I don't have the power or accuracy to score well nor the time to invest in improving. I do love the time walking through the woods with family and friends sharing the experience as we goof around.
Im like this too, but 5 min on YouTube made me improve as it made me realise i should throw in a straight line and not like a discos
Playing guitar. Strum (no, wait), strum (no, wait), etc.
Drawing. I like doing it, but my stick figures look rather ill.
Playing Shattered Pixel Dungeon
Running. I'm slow and can't run particularly far for how long I've been doing it.
But you enjoy it? I ran for years, got better at it, never particularly fast, but never enjoyed it at all. Best I can say is that I always felt better on a day I ran, but never when I was actually running, that always felt dreadful.
Surfing...
I really love it, but I also really suck
Playing Football (Soccer). I've got the stamina and speed well above average but my aim is beyond horrid
Dota.
I was literally 1 MMR after starting. At my peak I was slightly above the average player. Now I am average. Years later.
I am generally pretty good with the games I invest time into. Not this one.
Snooker
Snooker is so ridiculously difficult. If I knock in a 9 break (red, black, red) I am so proud of myself. And yet I have played against guys who will knock in a 60 or 70 like it's nothing.
Yeah... 60/70 like it's nothing? That's nearly pro level. I play with a friend, he sucks just a tiny bit less than I do 🤣
singing. i don't really suck at it that much; I'm not tone deaf. but i just have an annoying voice.
I've been playing Clonehero drumming for about four years now. Nearly every day... and I still suck, miss pads completely, piss poor timing, no groove. Still enjoy it.
Cycling. I'm suck at it as i don't have the stamina to ride further than 5km and my place is hilly. So that's why i convert my old bike into ebike hence eliminating the stamina and hill issue.
Graffiti drawing
Handstands 🤸🏻♀️
I sorta feel everything. I feel like im not very good at doing things in general. Planning and thinking yeah. Like in video games my characters are better from the build than my game play. Even then though I do weird builds that do interesting things but are not necessarily optimal.
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