As somebody who lives in a state that starts with an O near the state university the name of this game always trips me up.

usually by the time people play osu! they have already had years of experience playing computer games and clicking on things, which helps, but some people really do seem to just struggle more. same with typing on a keyboard, some people just naturally have a much higher or much lower wpm for no (to me) discernable reason.

i feel like all that is down to practice, but some people also get better from practice faster. i chalk that up mostly to interest, but definitely also some kind of magical way to extract more useful feedback from whatever you're doing. part of paying attention to feedback is interest, part can be explained by autism, but maybe there really is such a thing as innate intelligence and it's what happens when you can understand and infer very good from zero. who knows. from personal experience i think depression severely hampered my intelligence, so maybe mania or adhd helps? i don't know

F 🫡

I was a huge fan of Elite Beat Agents, but I don’t know how you can play that style of game on other devices. Nintendo’s old styluses were perfect for reflexive pointer interactions.

First hit is free!

That's how the sport gets you. You have one great drive or chip or whatever, and you spend the rest of your round/season/life chasing that. Or maybe that's just my relationship with golf lol

First game of real golf I ever played I got a hole-in-one… on the wrong hole. The course wrapped back around next to itself, so when I shot wildly off course it just so happened to land in one of the later holes which was actually immediately adjacent. Still felt nice since everything else I was doing was way over par.

Keep chasing that dragon. Fuck Bill W.

(Don't actually fuck Bill W. For anybody who is a friend of his, let him know this was purely in jest).

I had the same experience with bowling, lol. Everyone was like, wow! Okay, they might be good at this! (or something!)

I think I bowled a 220 on my very first game.

Never did it again. Like, at all. Like, I did worse than everyone else every time after, including the people who were objectively bad at it, lol.

Life is kinda BS sometimes. 🤷

It's the length of time between the two that varies by person.

Like, I'm a naturally gifted classical musician. I barely practiced and went from sucking at the piano to playing 14 pieces (minimum 4 pages each) in a solo competition with perfect scores in two years. In the 5th grade.

But some people can put in decades of hard work and still not be very good. There are definitely things I know I would see diminishing returns for the effort I put in, like physical artwork.

All that's important is that you enjoy it, though.

I enjoy a good arcade racer for short bursts of time because they're silly and fast and fun. Never could get into the more realistic drivers like Forza since I'm not really into cars. Love the Sonic racing series, actually, they're like Mario Kart except their slow setting is Mario Kart's fast setting. Gotta go fast! I'm pretty mediocre at them, though.

About 15 years ago, I went to a friend’s house to play Mortal Kombat for the first time. I pressed so many random buttons at such a speed that I went undefeated. My fingers had blisters for days afterward. I don’t know what I was pressing, I don’t know why it worked, and I shall never play again so that I remain undefeated

I think mine might be sharing memes on lemmy

Hey fellow dyspraxic! How many things have you banged into today?

Perfectly individualized Calvinball, I like it.