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Yeah, I noticed how everyone who can play chess keeps saying that it's perfectly easy, you just move things around and immediately see though space and time, th

by aasasd 8y ago

Yeah, I noticed how everyone who can play chess keeps saying that it's perfectly easy, you just move things around and immediately see though space and time, the garden of forking paths is laid out before you in its entirety, and every choice ever becomes clear as air on a winter morning in childhood. Notably, those who can't really play tend to not feel that way.

PavlovsCat 8y ago
> immediately see though space and time, the garden of forking paths is laid out before you in its entirety, and every choice ever becomes clear as air on a winter morning in childhood I don't get that from chess, but I do get it from instagib railgun. The problem is, the other player see as clear as a falcon enhanced with some kind of alien nanotechnology, so I get owned, but I still often notice with amazement how many decisions and thoughts fit into a few seconds, it really does feel like time is slowing down by lot. I glance at some timer, a bunch of stuff happens, I glance at it again, and think "I can't believe only 4 seconds passed during all this".
- aasasd 8y ago
  > it really does feel like time is slowing down by lot It does! Not only that, but after such a game the brain is working faster, so the feeling persists. No coffee can give that effect, and it's the thing I really miss from my FPS days. However, videogames aren't necessary for that: other activity that needs you to act way faster than usual works about the same. (That becomes easy to notice when your days consist of the same old stuff...) I guess some people use extreme sports for that, but personally I'll have to find something more forgiving.
yesenadam 8y ago
Who ever said that? I've never heard that. Maybe you're joking (that would make more sense)
gpm 8y ago
I think you might be missing the point here. A game of chess doesn't need to take half an hour. It can take 15s (7.5s/side for the entire game), e.g. https://youtu.be/G2AMN9tHSB0?t=503 https://youtu.be/G2AMN9tHSB0?t=503 Edit: Here's a bunch more games with that time constraint to show they don't all end by running out of time https://youtu.be/6ieWb3LLBmM?t=380 https://youtu.be/6ieWb3LLBmM?t=380 Don't start trying to play 15s games. But I find 4-6 minute games (2-3m/side) to be perfectly playable even at a low level.

by aasasd 8y ago

PavlovsCat 8y ago

> immediately see though space and time, the garden of forking paths is laid out before you in its entirety, and every choice ever becomes clear as air on a winter morning in childhood I don't get that from chess, but I do get it from instagib railgun. The problem is, the other player see as clear as a falcon enhanced with some kind of alien nanotechnology, so I get owned, but I still often notice with amazement how many decisions and thoughts fit into a few seconds, it really does feel like time is slowing down by lot. I glance at some timer, a bunch of stuff happens, I glance at it again, and think "I can't believe only 4 seconds passed during all this".

aasasd 8y ago
> it really does feel like time is slowing down by lot It does! Not only that, but after such a game the brain is working faster, so the feeling persists. No coffee can give that effect, and it's the thing I really miss from my FPS days. However, videogames aren't necessary for that: other activity that needs you to act way faster than usual works about the same. (That becomes easy to notice when your days consist of the same old stuff...) I guess some people use extreme sports for that, but personally I'll have to find something more forgiving.

yesenadam 8y ago

Who ever said that? I've never heard that. Maybe you're joking (that would make more sense)

gpm 8y ago

I think you might be missing the point here. A game of chess doesn't need to take half an hour. It can take 15s (7.5s/side for the entire game), e.g. https://youtu.be/G2AMN9tHSB0?t=503 https://youtu.be/G2AMN9tHSB0?t=503 Edit: Here's a bunch more games with that time constraint to show they don't all end by running out of time https://youtu.be/6ieWb3LLBmM?t=380 https://youtu.be/6ieWb3LLBmM?t=380 Don't start trying to play 15s games. But I find 4-6 minute games (2-3m/side) to be perfectly playable even at a low level.