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Re: What game are you playing?

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Post by TedDoesntTalk »

noitpmeder wrote: post #22
antiverse wrote: post #19

OP - since you posted this, I will address you directly. You posted this with intent to do what, exactly? "Start a discussion?" And I'm looking at this fragment in particular: > For the past five years, I have been playing catch up in the games that the people around me were playing while I was playing the science game. The people I grew up around, especially the women who were least impressed with the science game,…

I think the author's purpose could be as simple as "don't be as quick as I was to judge other people". Did you post this with intent to sound aggressive?

This. There are different kinds of intelligence. Your intelligence in one area can blind you to the intelligence others have in different areas.

Re: What game are you playing?

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Post by switchbak »

rektide wrote: post #7
rubychill wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is it power asymmetry or is it that nerd games are over-valued by those who play them? That was my takeaway from this article, that it's easy to see investment in hard skills as innately better than soft skills.

It depends but most nerds I see arent playing power games at all, they're playing coop. Im not in SV & maybe that has something to do with why I cant recognize the shade you are throwing, dont see nearly the ego difficulties you claim. I spoke about power imbalance, but I saw it less about as having & wielding power, & really about understanding & due respect, about escaping our High Tech Gothic & living among the ea…

"They literally dont have the capacity to understand the nerds game". That's some primo tech elitism right there.

I agree with the parent, that it's an interesting tale about waking up to the fact that others have been optimizing for other goals in life, and in many cases those make a ton of sense, perhaps even moreso than his science game.

Your take on this however, seems to be some kind of idea that no one else can gauge or judge the depths of your contributions, etc. In fact I'm not completely sure what you're saying, but it appears to be almost the opposite of the original article.

I've had my time of thinking what I do is especially valuable and unique. Then I grew up and realized we all (well, many of us) contribute to this world in our own way. A little humility goes a long way.

Re: What game are you playing?

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Post by glouwbug »

metadat wrote: post #17

Shattered Pixel Dungeon. It's good for a procgen crawler. https://shatteredpixel.com/ Free for Android, and desktop. iOS is five bucks. Beware: It's addictive.

You’re being downvoted because you’re coming off as if you’re marketing. It’s okay though. Pixel dungeon is a lot of fun and well written to boot; the source is online

Re: What game are you playing?

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Post by dasz »

imwillofficial wrote: post #10

I’m playing StarCraft 1 over again. So great.

These for me are the socialising and interrelationship games. Its part of playing the tribe game.

Fwiw:

We're playing starcraft as well on weekends. Lan party style. Interludes of doom and quake. Warcraft 2 as well. Cracktorio is always running.

Still working out how we'll play bolo.

Re: What game are you playing?

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Post by MonaroVXR »

iratewizard wrote: post #4
rubychill wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is it power asymmetry or is it that nerd games are over-valued by those who play them? That was my takeaway from this article, that it's easy to see investment in hard skills as innately better than soft skills.

Most likely the latter. I've seen a lot of people get fixated on games that are deeply flawed or straight up unfun. Yet, they find the game very appealing.

What games? I'm genuinely interested.

Re: What game are you playing?

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Post by dasz »

glouwbug wrote: post #33
metadat wrote: post #17

Shattered Pixel Dungeon. It's good for a procgen crawler. https://shatteredpixel.com/ Free for Android, and desktop. iOS is five bucks. Beware: It's addictive.

You’re being downvoted because you’re coming off as if you’re marketing. It’s okay though. Pixel dungeon is a lot of fun and well written to boot; the source is online

Which is kinda weird on HN. Plenty of startups on here and plenty of startup people.

At the same time I can see why blatant adverts on here would get old fast. They aren't usually interesting comments if they're ad copy.

Re: What game are you playing?

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Post by theWreckluse »

DrBoring wrote: post #25

Interesting little article. To me, it speaks like the author is a bit remorseful for spending so much time on academic pursuits, and not building important social skills. I can recall in my youth making the assumption that someone was entirely stupid because they didn't share my breadth of knowledge. Like the author, I never considered that they spent their time in pursuit of other knowledge. I'm not sure where that…

I believe that he is remorseful, but for judging the world as being beneath him and not being able to see the beauty of others' games in some sense.

Re: What game are you playing?

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Post by temp8964 »

es7 wrote: post #5

Science and technology and other nerdy pursuits can be really valuable, and certainly don’t require you to be judgmental of others. The problem, as I’ve seen it is that people who are bad at some of the other ‘games’ that make a meaningful life lean too heavily on science and technology as a coping mechanism. That coping mechanism could be many things: nerdy pursuits, alcohol, video games, etc. Whatever your pursuit,…

However, in high school, many of other kids are in fact playing stupid games. Boys hang out do stupid things, or compete who’s the bigger bully. Girls play social games with bullies.

Re: What game are you playing?

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Post by chucksmash »

Good thought.

My immediate response is "yeah, I really didn't get the games other people were playing in junior high," which is the time frame the article evokes for me.

I feel like the gotcha is you have to realize - at least sometimes - that there are still games you don't get. It's easy to feel like, "at ${year - 1} I was such an idiot, glad that's over now." You'd be surprised how many years in a row you can feel that way before the meta realization sinks in.

Understanding other people is like learning to play "Have You Got It Yet?"[1]:

> When Pink Floyd gathered in January 1968 for one of their first rehearsals as a quintet, Barrett shared a new composition he called “Have You Got It Yet?” The song sounded straightforward, but the band became confused as they tried to join in and learn the number. The melody and structure seemed to shift on each run-through, with Barrett gleefully singing a chorus of “Have you got it yet? Have you got it yet?” at them.

> Eventually they realized that Barrett was changing the arrangement each time, deliberately making the song impossible to learn. “We didn’t get it for quite a long time,” says Gilmour in Rob Chapman’s book A Very Irregular Head. “I remember the moment and the song well. It was really just a 12-bar, but the responses were always in the wrong places according to Syd.

[1]: https://www.rollingstone.com/feature/syd-barrett-10-things-y...

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