[Pred the Penguin]

Minecraft!!!!

The damn game is eating me up...

[Nuke]

one of the reasons the death of the joystick sickens me so much is because its the input device that is easiest on the hands. im not a big fan of games that try to make the right mouse button the do everything button. at least sc2 gives your other hand something to do. but it remains a very click intensive game. its not as bad as 99% of mmorpg games though. fps games mostly revolve around moving the mouse and less around clicking. clicks to fire weapons are less repeditive, especially since there are really 2 types of guns in fps games, those that fire fast, and those that fire slow. the fast firing guns just let you hold the button down, and the sow firing guns (think railguns and sniper rifles) dont require rapid clicking. stil the wasd fingers always end up sore. i dont like games that fail to spread the input around. use other fingers! thats why i like a decent hotas, because it makes sure you have at least one button under every finger.

[IceFire]

Glad it's not just me... and I feel much the same as Nuke actually.

It's not that I suddenly got bad at games... it's just that I'm not as good as I used to be. I compensate well using accumulated knowledge to make it easier on myself but ultimately there are quite a few people out there who are waaay better than me. In FPS games I usually have a middling performance unless the scenario features less twitch and more tactics. I can't play fast deathmatch games any more. In Bad Company 2 I'm a very good sniper but that's about it... I spot guys, I use motion sensors, I play smart and I can hit guys with a 90 degree deflection angle in the head across the map - I take my time to set up the right shots.  In the twitchfest up close I'm not as good as I used to be...

About the only thing I'm good at is combat flight sims like IL-2. Good enough I should say....even then I tend to favor mud moving where I set up my attack on slow moving or stationary targets on the ground.

Games are just something I do when I'm bored anyways.

[Mr. Vega]

I'd read books every waking moment and then die from forgetting to eat. Thank you video games!

[Marcov]

Well, once you're good at a skill (hitting a golf ball, playing a game, whatever), it's moved into a subconscious part of the brain. Conscious attention to your performance therefore degrades, rather than enhances, your ability to use that skill.

So by distracting yourself with creative trash talk you allow your skill to work unimpeded.

I actually don't see myself getting weaker at something that I've been practicing at/am good at already when I put my full consciousness there.

As I see it, putting your full attention might require more energy, and thus the energy gets depleted faster, so you suddenly lose your control/attention.

Once you've got something perfected, on the performance, you won't need to be so conscious of it, but being conscious doesn't remove the performance capability, either.


Back ontopic, I just somehow CAN'T beat the crap out of Warcraft III. On Medium? No. Don't even think of tryin'. Easy? Not even! Try to make as many military units as possible, and you're 90% sure the enemy has amassed a larger army than yours!

[General Battuta]

Well, once you're good at a skill (hitting a golf ball, playing a game, whatever), it's moved into a subconscious part of the brain. Conscious attention to your performance therefore degrades, rather than enhances, your ability to use that skill.

So by distracting yourself with creative trash talk you allow your skill to work unimpeded.

I actually don't see myself getting weaker at something that I've been practicing at/am good at already when I put my full consciousness there.

As I see it, putting your full attention might require more energy, and thus the energy gets depleted faster, so you suddenly lose your control/attention.

Once you've got something perfected, on the performance, you won't need to be so conscious of it, but being conscious doesn't remove the performance capability, either.

This is a nice thought, but unfortunately laboratory science has proved you wrong.

[StarSlayer]

It's good to still be able to think tactically in a situation, for example to set up a move later in the bout, but the actual motions/moves and especially reactions will be much faster and when they come from muscle memory rather then conscious thought.  Controlled anger is also pretty useful, you'll be able to hit things harder and faster, but you need to hold it in check else you get stupid.

but yeah, thinking it out doesn't work so hot...

[General Battuta]

It's good to still be able to think tactically in a situation, for example to set up a move later in the bout, but the actual motions/moves and especially reactions will be much faster and when they come from muscle memory rather then conscious thought.  Controlled anger is also pretty useful, you'll be able to hit things harder and faster, but you need to hold it in check else you get stupid.

but yeah, thinking it out doesn't work so hot...

Unless you're Sherlock Holmes!

And yes, cognitive attention can be devoted to higher-level tasking rather than interfering with expert processing.

[StarSlayer]

Exactly, if I'm sparring in Kendo I might plan on hitting a kote do strke (you make a strike to the hands but really your looking to follow up with a horizontal cut across the abdomen) in order to set that up I'll attempt kote men (strike to the hands followed by a strike to the head) a couple times in order to get my opponent to expect to protect their head so I have a clear opening to the torso when I do strike kote do.  The strikes themselves, and especially my reactions to my opponent's moves need to come from muscle memory though, its to fast to be caught thinking about what to do.

[Vidmaster]

I'd lower the difficulty.

[MR_T3D]

I`d keep playing, just not taking any of it that seriously

[Marcov]

This is a nice thought, but unfortunately laboratory science has proved you wrong.

How about giving me examples of experimentation that has proved focusing one's attention on performance ending up in worse results than without much concentration?

Anyways, personally, I've experienced several times that I get to hit the flying shuttle cock even while laughing at something funny that happened in FreeSpace, but that doesn't mean I don't get to hit it when on focus mode.

Are you talking about Sports or Performance Arts?

[General Battuta]

This is a nice thought, but unfortunately laboratory science has proved you wrong.

How about giving me examples of experimentation that has proved focusing one's attention on performance ending up in worse results than without much concentration?

Anyways, personally, I've experienced several times that I get to hit the flying shuttle cock even while laughing at something funny that happened in FreeSpace, but that doesn't mean I don't get to hit it when on focus mode.

Are you talking about Sports or Performance Arts?

Both.

http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~db=all~content=a790265733

http://psycnet.apa.org/psycinfo/2001-05320-007

http://psycnet.apa.org/journals/xge/133/4/584/

off the top of my head, there are loads more

[Hero_Swe]

Looking back, quite a few funny posts. Safe to say, I was on a bad losing streak. It's was alright though, turned out they were cheaters . So yeah, back in form