Tangentially related: For a while, I had a girl friend who had a remarkable propensity to get herself into serious trouble, often while I was on a different co

Tangentially related: For a while, I had a girl friend who had a remarkable propensity to get herself into serious trouble, often while I was on a different continent. We noticed that when I got apprised of these acute situations, far away, unable to do anything about it, I would often score exceptional high scores on my favourite games. The stress and desperation I couldn’t put to good use to help instead manifested itself in laser focused game performance…