Re: My Hate List (Revised)

On Wed, 12 Feb 2025 09:12:03 -0500, CrudeSausage wrote:

There was a pattern in AC which eventually made it easy to win a sword
fight. Being a video gamer since the early 1980s where learning patterns
was important to succeed, I had no trouble figuring it out.

I was late to the party.  I've been through several phases. The first was
the text games. I found them annoying and never got too far. Then in the
'80s there were the video arcades. I never was very good at PacMan,
Centipede, and the like. Being a programmer I keep strange hours so I
would wander over to the Stop'N'Rob at 2 AM, gt a cup of coffee, and play
a few games of Asteroids. I wasn't good at that either.

In the 2000's almost all of the programmers and testers I worked with were
gamers, some of the QA people even coming from the game industry so I got
an Xbox and a few games. Some were fun but I was never too good at them
either. I even sucked with Rocksmith, despite being able to play a guitar.
Those notes coming at you confused my mind.

I don't have a lot of patience for activities where I'm not showing
improvement.