• Swordgeek@lemmy.ca
    51·
    9 days ago

    Music.

    I’m a shitty musician, but I love it. Guitar, keyboard, clarinet, I love playing.

    • Weirdfish@lemmy.world
      7·
      9 days ago

      Same, got Rocksmith and a couple bass guitars. Love it, but even after five years I’m not willing to try playing in front of anyone.

      • lennybird@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        9 days ago

        There are several tracks of learning musical instruments, at least the way I see it. Learn to play other people’s stuff for fun solo, compose and record your own stuff, or jam with a group of buddies.

        I’ll be honest I never got into playing other people’s music but composed in the past. That was nice because you had absolute control but it also limited the creative input and stunted my own growth in music theory that becomes a must when jamming.

        This past year I’ve played more than maybe my entire life with jamming with family. It has been by far the most fun. We just make up our own simple shit and grow together.

        • Weirdfish@lemmy.world
          2·
          9 days ago

          Oh I want to play with my family, it’s just that the bastards are all musicians who have been playing for 40 years.

          • lennybird@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            8 days ago

            Then they should be able to accelerate your learning! My sis never played until this year and she’s kicking ass on bass! It’s a drudge for a bit though, no doubt.

    • gramie@lemmy.ca
      1·
      8 days ago

      I also have RockSmith and a bass guitar. However, for 3 years I have been playing in local groups (the last year has been a community open mic where up to a dozen musicians sit around and strum together) and having a lot of fun. The thing is that these are almost all elderly people, self-taught, so they are not trying to become rock stars, just to enjoy playing music together. Playing music I have never heard before has been very good for developing my ear.

      I go through periods of playing RockSmith a lot, and then not playing it at all for several months. Discovering user-created tracks that can be added as DLC has been fantastic.

      • mysticpickle@lemmy.ca
        3·
        8 days ago

        Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is where I caved and set it on easy. Don’t got all day to memorize a bajillion attack patterns down to the tenth of a second but shieet… that story is a banger.

    • papalonian@lemmy.world
      3·
      8 days ago

      Ah yup. I’m pretty good at the single player games that I play, but whenever my buddies want to do any kind of matchmaking, it’s some of the best fun I have being absolutely awful at something. Consistently at the bottom of the squad and loving it, baby

    • gerryflap@feddit.nl
      12·
      8 days ago

      Same. I don’t like playing RTS games the good way. I just like building a cozy little camp and defending it, slowly exploring the map and just building whatever units I feel like building. I enjoy games like Age of Empires and Beyond All Reason because the maps tend to be quite large and random. It usually takes a while before I get overwhelmed if I’m losing I those games, and if I’m winning I can spend a lot of time just messing around without the game being over.

      Games like Starcraft or Warcraft seem to be built too much for quick games where you have to be constantly moving. Expansion locations are very determined and scarce and resources run out way too fast to just turtle in my little corner.

      • s3rvant@lemmy.mlEnglish
        7·
        8 days ago

        +1 for Beyond All Reason :)

        So far I’ve only played against the simple AI bots and some easy barbarians; mostly I team up with my kids and we just try out different ways to mess around. Fun times.

        • gerryflap@feddit.nl
          2·
          7 days ago

          Yeah I also tend to play against the bots. Me and my friends have hundreds of hours against the AI at this point. Nowadays we tend to play against the Hard Barbarian AI. We usually win, but the AI can be very variable and sometimes it just turns on and destroys us. If we manage to expand aggressively in the early game, manage to contest roughly half the map (or have a good choke point), we can survive the early onslaught and out-eco the AI in the late game. Which is the most fun way of winning imo. Chill behind defences and slowly get the upper hand until we waltz over the AI with experimental units. We did ban ourselves from “cheesy” tactics like nuking the AI, target bombing their economy, or aggressively targeting our long range artillery at their economy. The AI just doesn’t seem to sufficiently defend against these and it quickly ends the game in a lame way. Unless we’re losing hard, then everything is permitted.

    • 3abas@lemmy.world
      4·
      8 days ago

      After the first few campaigns, all my hours get logged with mods and God mode, ain’t nobody got time to constantly grind for weeks, my campaign needs to wrap up by the end of the day!

  • slakje@piefed.socialEnglish
    19·
    9 days ago

    Just about anything creative: music, art, writing. It doesn’t stop me from trying, but it’s clear the creative vision or raw talent that some others have is missing.

    • WindyRebel@lemmy.world
      3·
      8 days ago

      You’ve done a good job! You used sound and letter knowledge along with phonemes to encode your answer. Often when adding a suffix of -ing to a word, you will need to double your consonant.

      I’m proud of your attempt. All you’re missing is an extra L after the first one!

  • s3rvant@lemmy.mlEnglish
    8·
    8 days ago

    Disc golf

    I don’t have the power or accuracy to score well nor the time to invest in improving. I do love the time walking through the woods with family and friends sharing the experience as we goof around.

    • Oisteink@lemmy.world
      3·
      8 days ago

      Im like this too, but 5 min on YouTube made me improve as it made me realise i should throw in a straight line and not like a discos

    • RBWells@lemmy.world
      1·
      8 days ago

      But you enjoy it? I ran for years, got better at it, never particularly fast, but never enjoyed it at all. Best I can say is that I always felt better on a day I ran, but never when I was actually running, that always felt dreadful.