Thursday, 11 October 2012

Consequences of Gaming

So the game I play right now is one of those nice beat-'em-ups, and today I forced myself to take a break from playing because I noticed my fingers twitching erratically after 2 hours. Not a good sign. I started a new character on my account, and I was practising combo chains--- given my ancient keyboard (which probably deserves to be displayed in a museum as opposed to being used as a gaming keyboard), it was hard work. I finally figured that if I hold a key, the game will register it as pressing the key down twice or 3 times, but that depends on timing etc.

The sequence I've been trying to learn is one of those "basic" character combos "zzz>>^z". which means press z 3 times, press left or right arrow key twice then up arrow key once then press z. Seems easy enough--- except timing is required. With my shitty keyboard, instead of registering as "zzz>>^z", it registers as "zzzz" which breaks my combo, or it registers as "zzz" *break* ">>^z".

Now I figure no one will actually understand what I'm talking about, and that's okay, but I just want you to know that you all suck.


Anyway, I'm training my fingers to adapt to the new character combo, and sooner or later, if I succeed enough times, it'll become muscle memory, so I won't have to try the next time I want to execute that combo. Then I think to myself, man, the time it takes for me to convert that combo to muscle memory... if I had the same dedication for a sport... or if I just picked up a random stick from the backyard and slashed it until it became muscle memory... I'd be fit, wouldn't I?

Now I'm wondering, if I had dedicated all my gaming time to training my physical body, would I be able to run 100m without puffing like a fatty...

And maybe I'd be able to slash a sword as fast as my in game character

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