Flamekebab
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- Comment on Caution urged as UK supermarkets check out facial recognition 1 day ago:
I wear a custom-fitted mask whenever I'm out in public so they can have fun with that.
- Comment on What Nextcloud document service setup would you recommend? 1 day ago:
What are your requirements?
- Comment on Keir Starmer does not believe trans women are women, No 10 says 2 days ago:
I can't decide whether they're awful or just saying awful things to pander to the awful bits of the electorate. Both are terrible but they're different flavours of evil.
- Comment on A Rare Shigeru Miyamoto Interview About The Making Of Mario 64 Has Just Surfaced Online | Time Extension 2 days ago:
I'm glad it's not just me that has these thoughts. Shigsy did loads of interviews back in the day.
- Comment on Unlike in movies, most smart people aren't good in chess. 5 days ago:
Regardless it's an insult I wouldn't throw at anyone other than a fascist.
- Comment on Unlike in movies, most smart people aren't good in chess. 6 days ago:
Ye gods, I'm not reading that wall. I tried to make it clear that I was not interested in continuing this interaction but let's make it a bit more explicit: this conversation is over.
- Comment on Unlike in movies, most smart people aren't good in chess. 6 days ago:
...it's not an actual apology, it's a rhetorical device. Was that not clear?
I don't really understand why you feel the need to second guess my own assessment of my own mind. I'm not interested in an explanation either, just to be clear. Each time you keep drawing comparisons that paint me as naïve and childlike. It's perhaps not intentional but the end result is tremendously insulting, hence why I'm not interested in further talk on the subject.
With regards to learning new things, the world of human experience is vast. I am not shutting the door on chess out of petulance. I do so knowing the journey I would need to take is incompatible with my own preferences for discovery and growth. To my mind it is a distilled competitive logic puzzle. I don't like logic puzzles of any complexity, and I particularly don't like pared down ones with no set dressing or storytelling.
I am actually quite happy to engage in puzzle solving - it's one of the things I do for a living. However there the puzzles are more cooperative and with many, many more facets to them. They can be solved in a huge number of ways and with a variety of different skills.
I'm explaining this because it seems you need it spelled out rather explicitly. Particularly as you seem to have rather strange ideas about who you're talking to. I'm nearly 40 and your comment about not recognising past versions of myself could not possibly be further from the truth. The various iterations of myself have been built atop the old ones. The eleven year old boy is still in there, as is the teenager, twenty-something, and the several versions of me from my 30s.
I don't necessarily know everything I like, but I've tried a great many things and have a firm understanding of what kinds of activities I dislike. I can also extrapolate fairly well, and it's not like chess is an obscure interest such as shin-kicking. The journey and destination both look rather dull to me, whereas many others do not. I cannot do everything in one lifetime and must choose. Chess has had its chance with me. It blew it. The same is true for gambling, as it happens. I have tried it in various forms and found it universally dull. I also don't enjoy ales, gloomy literature, tennis, or horror movies. There's much about those things I don't know and I intend to keep it that way in order to explore other potential interests. Things that I hopefully won't be bored by, or at least I enjoy some element of the journey.
Otherwise I might as well just be working - at least then the boring bits result in a paycheque.
- Comment on Unlike in movies, most smart people aren't good in chess. 1 week ago:
That's part of my point. If we were talking about painting then the skills might well be useful for other stuff, but everything I've read says that it's just a game. It doesn't build other useful skills.
- Comment on Unlike in movies, most smart people aren't good in chess. 1 week ago:
What I played was called chess, followed the rules of chess, and seemed to be chess. I didn't like it.
Building an opinion around the game I actually played rather than some hypothetical higher level game feels like an extremely reasonable approach to me. I'm sorry that you feel it's not, I guess.
- Comment on Unlike in movies, most smart people aren't good in chess. 1 week ago:
all I said is that we are unable to objectively judge whether chess is fun or not before we've learned the rules and memorized common openings.
At no point did I seek to judge it objectively.
I have played some chess at various points throughout my life. My subjective judgement is that it didn't grab me, unlike many, many other games. It might well have some divine beauty to it but the subjective barrier to entry is far too high. I also don't bother with TV shows that "get good in the second season" or endure multiple chapters of tedium before bailing on a book.
I'm just saying don't accuse reading of being "unfun" because you hate learning grammer and punctuation.
You're now putting words in my mouth.
At what point did I state anything other than a subjective opinion?
In fact I went out of my way to make it abundantly clear that these are my opinions and not a judgement on the game as a whole.
It's unfun at the level you're at, but the next level is a completely different game.
I'm not saying you have to go to the next level, just stop judging it based on the current level.If this thread is anything to go by, I wish I'd played even less chess than I already have. Sorry that I'm enjoying my hobbies wrong?
I have not enjoyed my limited experiences with chess. They have turned me off pursuing it further. The same is not true of many other games I've played. To me that makes chess subjectively worse than those other games.
- Comment on Unlike in movies, most smart people aren't good in chess. 1 week ago:
I really don't buy this comparison at all. I think a better comparison would be to JRPGs - "it gets fun after 30 hours!"
There's also the presumption that a game like chess must be fun and everyone will definitely enjoy it.
I'm really glad you enjoy it, I find it irritating that I don't. However if the basics of it don't draw me in, and I see no ancillary value in learning how to play it to a higher level, why would I continue?
The world is full of enjoyable diversions and not everything is for everyone. I enjoy playing football (as in soccer) but find watching it to be awful. If I invested enough time I could perhaps find myself engaged enough in the bigger picture, care about the minutia, but why? There's so many other things I found enjoyable from the outset. Reading included. - Comment on Unlike in movies, most smart people aren't good in chess. 1 week ago:
Pretty much the problem. It's very pure but I find that puts me off rather than draws me in. I kind of have the same problem with Quake 3!
- Comment on Unlike in movies, most smart people aren't good in chess. 1 week ago:
If you're going to throw around an insult like that I'd like to see some working. I find chess boring, I'm not a fucking fascist.
- Comment on Unlike in movies, most smart people aren't good in chess. 1 week ago:
The pared-down nature of chess really puts me off. I'm sure there's some elegant simplicity in it but I mostly find it dull. I like an element of randomness in my games.
Chess doesn't feel like a gateway to other, more fun games, and if it's not a fun game for me, why would I pursue it? I'm fairly sure it doesn't build skills that translate to anything else.
- Comment on Ideas for Hosting on a 2009 Netbook? 1 week ago:
I thought it was just the lads in my flat that called them eeeeeeeeeeeepeecees!
- Comment on Cheese rolling could be added to UK heritage list 1 week ago:
In all seriousness - why isn't it? It's definitely intangible cultural heritage.
- Comment on Atari 2600: The Atlantis of Game Consoles 1 week ago:
smothers it with a towel and stuffs it into an oven
- Comment on Atari 2600: The Atlantis of Game Consoles 1 week ago:
Or sitting in a cupboard off-gassing, oozing, and generally making the home a safer environment.
It does remind me of the Acts of Gord's use for an N64 - as a doorstop with a note saying "This is all I am good for."
- Comment on Atari 2600: The Atlantis of Game Consoles 1 week ago:
Oh! Ewaste! So kind of you...
- Comment on Atari 2600: The Atlantis of Game Consoles 1 week ago:
I've yet to encounter a single Atari 2600 game that was worth more than 30 seconds of my time.
- Comment on 'Oh god': There's a buried Steam help page that shows how much money you've ever spent on the platform, and you may not want to know 1 week ago:
Considering I have 827 games on Steam, the figure of $1620.26 doesn't seem too bad. Now I've probably bought a load more bundles bumping that up, but there's no convenient way to figure out how much that adds (let's round to $2000). I've had the account 18 years, 9 months.
So that's... $8.89 per month.
Yeah, that seems pretty reasonable.
- Comment on Steam Deck / Gaming News #10 1 week ago:
I've been playing (and loving) Fallout London. It turns out that the pokey little locations in their games are Bethesda's fault. The engine does still suck, but it doesn't have to suck as much as it does in their hands. London is huge!
- Comment on Am I going crazy, or has people's spelling gotten awful lately? 1 week ago:
I'm always perplexed when I see porn videos with titles that use the continuous present rather than the simple present. One would have thought that the simple present would be the basic stuff for English as a second language, rather than the much less useful continuous present.
- Comment on Am I going crazy, or has people's spelling gotten awful lately? 1 week ago:
There's a few I've noticed in the last seven years or so - lots of Americans can't seem to conjugate "run". It results in horrible sentences like "I used to ran this game" or "I have ran this event before". No idea why that's happening but squirt those people with a plant mister.
It's even worse than people who don't finish the words they're writing "suppose to" and the like. In the brine with thee!
- Comment on PS5 price to rise in Europe, Australia and New Zealand 1 week ago:
I guess I don't get to play either of their exclusive games.
- Comment on Simcity 3000 Retrospective/Mini Review & Screenshot Walkthrough 1 week ago:
I've been meaning to create a suitable control scheme to play on my Steam Deck as it's the apex of the series for me.
- Comment on Librarians in UK increasingly asked to remove books, as influence of US pressure groups spreads 1 week ago:
This is one of many reasons that I want the US to stop being respected internationally. Their culture has some horrible issues that they don't need to spread around. We've got plenty of home-grown awfulness, thanks all the same.
- Comment on Jack Dorsey and Elon Musk would like to ‘delete all IP law’ | TechCrunch 1 week ago:
Not that I'm aware of.
- Comment on Do you use your blinker in a car? 1 week ago:
I remember a driving instructor asking me who I was indicating for when we were practising in a suburb. I couldn't see any other cars but figured that if one appeared they'd want to know my intentions and it would mean it was one less thing to think about.
I fired that instructor.
- Comment on Tax cut for Musk, Bezos and other tech billionaires on the table, Starmer confirms 2 weeks ago:
They already pay naff-all, how much more can we possibly cut?