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Re: Prince of Persia in JavaScript

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Post by pm90 »

paulluuk wrote: post #159
FrankyHollywood wrote: post #106

Awesome! Takes me back :) My 8 yo son is playing it now, he knows all the modern consoles, but this is challenging him. He is frustrated things are hard from the beginning, jumps don't work right away and he stopped after a few minutes. I remember my perseverance as a kid. I was thinking about that lately, I see my kids don't have this strong motivation as I had, not for anything. Everything works for them and is lay…

> I was thinking about that lately, I see my kids don't have this strong motivation as I had, not for anything. > Don't know how this will affect them on the long run. Now it's only my observation. I realize that you're only talking about your own kids, but I have a feeling that many people on here consider this to be some kind of general rule for all kids, akin to the "back in my day" rhetoric of the generations bef…

Thanks for saying this.

There is always a generational tendency to point out that the next one has it easy or that they are weak because $OBSERVATION. I would like more folks to counter that. I’m a millennial but absolutely love how Gen Z is incredibly adept at navigating the always online culture, calling bullshit on dated traditions around work ethics and so on.

You can look at change and either pat yourself on the back for being better for having overcome challenges they didn’t have to. Or you can see what other generations bring to the table and work with that.

Re: Prince of Persia in JavaScript

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Post by chrisseaton »

FrankyHollywood wrote: post #106

Awesome! Takes me back :) My 8 yo son is playing it now, he knows all the modern consoles, but this is challenging him. He is frustrated things are hard from the beginning, jumps don't work right away and he stopped after a few minutes. I remember my perseverance as a kid. I was thinking about that lately, I see my kids don't have this strong motivation as I had, not for anything. Everything works for them and is lay…

Hmm I see the exact opposite. If I wanted to know how something worked or how to build something I had to go to a physical library and hope some dusty encyclopaedia had a minimal entry, and if I needed supplies it would be a specialist catalogue.

If my daughter wants to know how something works she can find a brilliant well-produced video on YouTube of an expert explaining it, and she can easily buy tools and supplies from anywhere in the world for esoteric hobbies.

From what I see the next generation are far more practical and hands on and involved in constructive and creative hobbies than mine was. When I see young people’s resumés today they are frighteningly practical and talented in advanced hobbies.

Sometimes I worry about how to keep up and compete with them!

Re: Prince of Persia in JavaScript

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Post by 999900000999 »

FrankyHollywood wrote: post #106

Awesome! Takes me back :) My 8 yo son is playing it now, he knows all the modern consoles, but this is challenging him. He is frustrated things are hard from the beginning, jumps don't work right away and he stopped after a few minutes. I remember my perseverance as a kid. I was thinking about that lately, I see my kids don't have this strong motivation as I had, not for anything. Everything works for them and is lay…

Then again, it's much easier to branch out and build your own games now. .

I dislike Roblox since at that point you might as well open up Unity and ship your own game. That's how I learned to program in my early twenties, a bit later than most of y'all

Re: Prince of Persia in JavaScript

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Post by kazinator »

JackFr wrote: post #135
atomflunder wrote: post #112

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you want to counteract this tendency, consider getting them into (competitive) sports. Nothing will work right away, they will have to „grind“ (train/practice) a lot, failures are all but certain; but hard work and perseverance get rewarded, and the successes are all the sweeter. As a young guy who has had a modern and easy childhood not unlike the one you describe, many of my most cherished memories come from com…

Sports and musical instruments - if you can keep them motivated/interested, the results of focused practice can’t be ignored. To some extent I only realized this late in life myself. I don’t play a musical instrument, schoolwork through undergraduate never required really hard work and as an athlete I was a lackluster football player who never really put in the time to get better. But as an adult, computer programmin…

> results of focused practice can’t be ignored

Throngs of well-rehearsed, talented, yet ignored musicians cannot agree. ;)

Re: Prince of Persia in JavaScript

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Post by sparker72678 »

nojs wrote: post #95

So many memories playing this, thanks! I expected after finishing level 1 to see the “page 4 line 2 character 6” challenge room, where you were supposed to prove you owned the official manual. When I was a kid we had it on floppy disk but never had the original book, and I remember diligently filling in a table of failures each time I drank the wrong letter and died. Eventually I got them all! Because of this I remem…

This! Somewhere down the line we managed to get a copy of the manual — we played a lot more after that!

Re: Prince of Persia in JavaScript

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Post by ballenf »

paulluuk wrote: post #159
FrankyHollywood wrote: post #106

Awesome! Takes me back :) My 8 yo son is playing it now, he knows all the modern consoles, but this is challenging him. He is frustrated things are hard from the beginning, jumps don't work right away and he stopped after a few minutes. I remember my perseverance as a kid. I was thinking about that lately, I see my kids don't have this strong motivation as I had, not for anything. Everything works for them and is lay…

> I was thinking about that lately, I see my kids don't have this strong motivation as I had, not for anything. > Don't know how this will affect them on the long run. Now it's only my observation. I realize that you're only talking about your own kids, but I have a feeling that many people on here consider this to be some kind of general rule for all kids, akin to the "back in my day" rhetoric of the generations bef…

> * Instead of trying to "earn" that promotion by working 80 hour weeks and "keeping your head down" at your office, apply for a different job elsewhere that offers better pay and work/life balance.

I think the reason the "head down" strategy doesn't work so well now is at least partially because it's still the dominant approach. Some time after it becomes the exception, it may become the path to success it once was.

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