Um, I beat Noita once. I beat FTL: Faster Than Light on Hard sometimes. I beat Pocket Rogue once. I also scored first-place in some hard-difficulty Moon Rider VR beatmaps, but I gotta get back into that.
You can beat Noita 😅? Hahahaha, it’s so brutally difficult. Still enjoy it a lot though. I got to phase 2 of the boss fight in FTL on normal with the default ship. It was a massacre. Great soundtrack to die to.
Hey, I’ll watch you stream Noita and FTL whenever! I’d walk you through them as best as I can! Noita is almost entirely a game of visibility, IMHO; the All-Seeing Eye perk is unbeatable, rivaled only by immunities. And yes, FTL has a tremendously awesome soundtrack!
I used to do my hobby as a full time job, I realized I didn’t enjoy it as much when it was my job so I switched careers so I could still enjoy it.
On a scale of total novice to master, 1 to 10, I’d say I average about a 3. Handily capable compared to the layperson, but unremarkable compared to other hobbyists. I do have a lot of hobbies though
Decent at some and a beginner at others. Tbh, I have more hobbies than time to practice and really get good at all of them. So progress is slow, but I enjoy each one of them and don’t want to give up any just yet. Guess I’m taking the scenic route to mastery, maybe by the time I retire I’ll be really cooking. And if not, I still would consider it time well spent.
My hobby has a leaderboard, so for better or for worse, I know exactly how good I am at it. Currently sitting around the top 0.01% of Power Shift players in The Finals, down from top 0.001% last season. Part of me hates knowing this, because I tend to obsess over it. But another part of me loves it because I never get to gloat about anything in life, so it’s fun to brag once in a while.
What is Power Shift?
It’s a kind of “side” mode in The Finals, which is an FPS game. In Power Shift, 2 teams of 5 try to push a floating platform from the center of the arena into their opponent’s base, in a sort of reverse tug-of-war battle. As the platform traverses the arena, it effortlessly demolishes all structures in its path, so the destruction and chaos are cranked to 11.
It’s sort of similar to “payload” type objectives in some other FPS games like Overwatch or TF2, but instead of teams taking turns, they’re both pushing against each other with the same payload. It’s a ton of fun!
Thanks for the explanation! I am not much of an fps player, so i had no idea, but it sounds fun for sure :)
I think it is a trap to think about it this way. My hobbies are meant to bring me joy and challenge, no matter what level i am on
Fighting games: I’m a solid upper-intermediate player in most of the games I play. I’ve got a few tournament wins under my belt for smaller local brackets. At majors, I usually go 2-2 or 3-2, consistently finishing in the top half. Best I’ve ever done in a large bracket was 9th in Them’s Fightin’ Herds at Combo Breaker 2022.
Riichi Mahjong: Master 1 on MajSoul, 7th Dan on Riichi City. Our local club runs a seasonal league where I took 2nd last season and am currently ranked 4th this season, though with IRL games the sample size is a bit small. I know I have a lot to improve on still, my deal-in rate is akin to repeatedly putting my hand on a hot stove.
Versus puzzle games: Retired out of spite for the sad state of the competitive scene today, but I used to be the top Puyo Puyo player in my state, peaked at a 2700 rating back then. That is a big fish in a small pond though, top Japanese players are so far ahead of us because barely anyone in the west ever took this game seriously. Which leads into the long rant about why I called it quits… I’ve dabbled in a lot of other games as well, but when it comes to competitive scenes everything else is even more nonexistent than Puyo. There are a lot of games I can call myself good at just by default.
Boardgames, around 75%
Badminton, around 55%
And 80s arcades, pretty good.
Can 1CC about 15 games.
This!!
I suck at most of my hobbies, but half the fun is learning and improving
Depends on the hobby. I tend to collect hobbies and then grow bored of them, then return to them a while later.
I’ll become absolutely obsessed with learning about “hobby x”, and spend two months basically getting as close to an expert on it as I can with self-teaching. (Video Editing, filmmaking, screenwriting, 3D modelling for flight simulators, Graphic Design, etc…)
Then I’ll grow bored and move onto a new obsession from the above list, focus on that long enough that at least 25% of my knowledge of the previous obsession vanishes and I have to relearn a bunch the next time that obsession rolls around.
I’ve been told that’s possibly ADHD, but since I suffer from depression I’ll take my bursts of obsessiveness over lack of any motivation any day.
This is me!!! Especially the relearning part 😆 Side bonus is I’m really good at reading docs(programming) now!
Reading (good) programming documentation is half the battle, or maybe 3/4ths, hahaha! I also remember when someone took the time to go in depth with the debugger and increased my programming efficiency by about 75%, good times, wow! Now I can only write code at 225% efficiency 🤣.
Video games? Bad at them. I play lowest difficulty and still die but I have fun. Baking? Pretty good! People like my baked goods and they are almost always eaten before they go bad (unless I make far too much)
I’m awful at video games to the point I can’t progress. Instead I watch twitch which I really like. What kind of gaming do you do?
A lot of roguelikes/lites where I just don’t win runs. Also a lot of rpgs, but those usually on the lower levels give ways of reviving! Which is nice.
Sounds great I’m glad you have fun
Not very good, but that’s sort of the point for me; my favourite part of any hobby is the learning. I did a woodworking class the other day!
It’s taken a lot of work to get to the point where I can be comfortable with being mediocre at something and just doing it for the joy of it. I’m quite an intense person, with perfectionist tendencies, so it’s nice to be able to carve out some things that I can be more chill about.
In a few of my creative hobbies, I’ve been complimented by others in a way that I would consider sincere to the work.
I’m shit at video games.
Not good at all, but I’m just happy to be there.
