Interesting Links for 14-01-2023

[andrewducker]

1. Jewish university students had swastikas drawn on them and told 'Hitler was right', damning NUS report reveals

(tags:students jews bigotry university unions )

2. What Games Are Like For Someone Who Doesn't Play Games

(tags:games ux video )

3. A long thread of people whose fathers or partners just walked out one day

(tags:parenting OhForFucksSake men abandoned )

4. Quote Tweeting: Over 30 Studies Dispel Some Myths

(tags:Twitter communication research )

5. The age of energy abundance may be closer than we think

(tags:electricity renewables thefuture )

6. The Economic Secret Hidden in a Tiny, Discontinued Pasta (That once you lose the ability to manufacture something, no matter how simple, regaining it is a *lot* of work)

(tags:pasta manufacturing Doom )

7. The idea that in earlier societies men were the hunters while women were the gatherers is a myth

(tags:gender society history prehistory )

Comments

[melchar]

I've always played board games - and stumbled into Dungeons & Dragons when it was 'new' [1973]. I only began playing video games ... due to no consoles & a very limited PC ... in 1998.

So I came to video games late - and mainly wanted to play 'Baldur's Gate'. I RTFM and slowly pecked my way around and loved the game. Later, a friend loaned me his PS2 & his copy of 'Final Fantasy X' ... which I fell in love with. THAT ended with me going, buying a PS2 & FFX and spending months playing that beautiful game.

I found other PS2 games that I loved -almost- as much, then later still was invited [coaxed] to play MMOs - which I enjoy.

I don't have 'twitch' motor skills, so avoid games with a lot of 'first-person shooting. I have terrible reflexes & avoid PvP [player vs player] - since I lose 95% of the time. I also have vision problems & a tendency towards motion sickness, so there are a lot of games I don't even try to play, since nausea is NO fun.

In general though, even coming late to the game, I enjoy it & spend a lot of time playing. My advice is to start with something that is interesting and learn how to play it. Could be that it's not in your skill-set, even after you know the basics. Then try something else. But that's just me.

[andrewducker]

Yeah, finding a game that does make it worth persevering with, and learning from there, makes a huge difference.

I don't think that there is such a thing for calimac though.