Sucking at something is the first step to getting kind of ok at something.
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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.
That's me and racing video games. I'm naturally weirdly good at them, both arcade style and sim. I don't really like racing games.
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 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.
Rolling around at the speed of sound! Got places to go, got to FOLLOW MY RAINBOW!
A friend of mine got really into OSU! and got me to try it. When I complained about the difficulty, he reassured me "Everyone has a hard time when they start out, let me see you play." When I showed him, he said "Oh, man, I was never this bad. Maybe this game isn't for you."
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.
You can get a convertible laptop or tablet that has an active digitizer. They're much more precise than the DS stylus.
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
Well, I built my first gaming computer maybe 5-6 years before this incident, so I had some experience. I just don't have great hand-eye coordination and have to compensate with strategy in most games, and OSU! limits the degree to which you can do that pretty heavily.
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.
As someone who does not know this game, and can only think of the state university with the same initials, I'll take a wild guess instead of looking it up!
Optically Stabilized Unstablizers
oooh, so close! it's actually Orangically Stabilized Unstabilizers
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As someone who is just learning guitar - Ouch.
My first golf swing ever was insanely good. Like, got it on the green, first try. My grandfather was really impressed... Until every swing after that. Never ever as good again.
That first swing, though, that was beautiful.
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. 🤷
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.
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
Feels pretty accurate. I got my first ever birdie by just chipping it in maybe 8 months after I've started. I've never been below par on a hole again since.
First hit is free!
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).
Dyspraxia is a bitch, believe you me
Gotta suck at something first, in order to be kinda good.
Keep trying. Your weird special talent is out there somewhere!
I think mine might be sharing memes on lemmy
And we love you for it!
I hope you're getting paid very well for this because you sure do a lot of it.
How much Lemmy karma do you need to get onto the paid tier?
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Me attempting contact staff (I saw a guy do some tricks once and immediately decided I had to learn. I am absurdly bad.)
Make your own art/sport where the rules match what you're good at :)
Perfectly individualized Calvinball, I like it.