Keep it light plz. For example, I am terrible terrible bowler. Just absolutely piss poor even compared to equally casual people, any time there's been some kinda get together involving bowling I have come in last by a huge huge margin. I need the bumpers. I can bowl a perfect game in wii sports tho.
FPS games as well, not really a fan and have never ever been able to hack it at them. After graphics got good enough I didn't find the perspective disorienting team sticks became the norm and I'm left handed so that was a weird thing to adjust to for me and by then it was 360 era CoD time and I wanted nothing to do with it and would just die 4 seconds into each spawn anyway.
Reading and writing poetry. Nothing makes me question my humanity more than seeing people be genuinely moved by poetry.
Happy for people that appreciate it, but it makes me feel like I’m an unfeeling brute more than anything else. This is a picture of me trying to understand poetry.
I'd vote for me too, that's 2 votes already. I'm grassroots organizing!
Learning languages.
It just never comes together for me.
Basketball. Which might not sound like a big deal, but when you're tall like me, everyone wants you for the team. I can dribble, and I can pass (hot damn, can I pass) but I can't shoot worth a damn and the most charitable thing anyone ever said about my defensive skills is that they're "technically not illegal."
Worse too is that it's not like I'm bad at sports. They probably saw me making a decent go at baseball or soccer and thought "Even if he's bad, we can teach him." They could not.
Sorry, fellow jocks. Basketball just ain't for me.
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Same issues when I played as a kid. I could get the ball to someone who could shoot, but I could not hit the fucking basket to save my life.
For me it was hockey. I tried it one year in elementary school, and couldn't figure out any of the things my teammates were doing, like crossovers and lifting the puck. I didn't go back for a second year.
But I believe that hockey is a dying sport. Equipment and ice time fees at arenas are way too expensive for working families. And climate change no longer allows for outdoor rinks where kids can learn basic skills for free. There's a good reason that basketball and soccer are picking up massively in popularity in Canada, they're both sports that kids can play casually almost year-round with minimal and relatively cheap equipment.
The only sport I'm actually talented in is lacrosse, but it's so goddamn bougie that no school I went to ever really supported it. I remember one time in PE we just kinda split the gym in half with floor hockey on one side and basketball on the other. My buddy and I went to grab sticks and we saw they had lacrosse equipment so we dug out a couple sticks and started tossing a ball around. Our teacher was like "Hey, I appreciate you two finding something you're excited about, but it's just not what we're doing right now."
i'm pretty bad at motivation to change my current financial situation. You know, the whole hustle culture and everything? Get more money, better your position, etc, that kind of shit.
Like I am completely content in whatever kind of shit is thrown at me and don't feel any need to "better" it, as long I have a comfortable bed and food. I really am just a beast that wears pants.
The only thing that has made me "progress" through life is partners, and wanting better for them. So I've made career changes for their benefit but if it was just me I could really be the embodiment of that meme of a picture of a lone chair and tv/gaming console inside an empty ass apartment that says "dudes will live like this and see nothing wrong"
dudes rock
Skateboarding. I tried learning how to Ollie for like an entire summer in highschool. I don't think I got the board off the ground once
it's so hard!
try surfing, it's like skating but without the concrete. much better.
Oh fuck nahh I would probably crack myself I'm the head with the board or get yelled at by a local lmao. I used to live near the beach so had a few close call things that stress me out - went sailing and dropped anchor at a mile marker to swim. Learned later that there were sharks chillin there. Another one I went swimming alone when it was choppy, being was too confident in my skills, too late to seim into the wave and Poseidon tossed me to the bottom of the ocean 3 times before deciding he didn't want me and hurled me back to shore. Definitely thought I was going to die lol.
Did you surf often?
somewhat often.
and yes I have split my eyebrow open with my board and gotten stitches. so I guess it is still kind of dangerous. but it didn't hurt every time you do it like skateboarding lol.
Ollies are hard as hell. I was pretty good at skating when I was younger and did it more and I couldn't really Ollie 2 months in either, I learned some freestyle tricks on the side as well as bonelesses and some other non Ollie based things and just did some cruising around, I ollied later but has better board control and more tricks than my friends at the same time cause I wasn't just grinding out ollied until I got mad. I wouldn't get too down about it in general, skateboarding is really really really difficult, easily the hardest thing I've ever been decent at.
I think I was just so focused on trying to do one of the most basic tricks that I lost sight of the fun lol. I could ride around okay, but I really wish I didn't have to get off my board to get up curbs! And I wasn't very good at turning sharp either. I can't believe I was trying to use it as a regular mode of transport at one point lol.
That's the thing with ollies, they aren't basic at all as far as difficulty but it's so fundamental to modern skating.its a huge hurdle right at the start
I am the least flexible person I know. I try to stretch every day and I'm reasonably athletic, but I have never been able to touch my toes. I also suck at following directions and building things from directions. Why must I fail at every attempt at masonry?
Directions are a double edges blade for me. I either overthink the instructions because they're usually written by kitchen workers in my case who are fucking awful at sentence structure or writing clearly. We have one recipe in the book where the measurements are in cups, liters, and grams on one recipe. You weigh out your ingredients while inventing a thing and then the next time you do it you convert those weight measurements into something that doesn't need a scale for each ingredient so it can be done fast, when you do you try to stick to as consistent units as possible, at least don't use measurements of volume and weight in the same recipe. I'm crazy strict about how recipes should be written down. On the other end I am Mr Eyeballs, I will pour liquid and count instead of measuring it out after getting a feel for a recipe and change stuff whenever I feel like it and not bother writing it down. I'm the only one at work who knows how to make 3 things cause I've changed the recipe so much. That being said, the arrogance is entirely earned cause it's never led to things turning out wrong. For diy stuff I just kinda throw myself at it and figure it out myself, I find that more fun than doing research sometimes. I am a hilarious carpenter but I build fucking sturdy
Several people have told me I have "an interesting speaking pattern". lol
Punctuality. Putting things away after using them. Remembering where I put my phone after putting it down in front of me one second ago. Calling you on your birthday. Opening my Mail and responding to it.
Took me 25 years to recognize I had ADHD.
On a lighter note: Chess. Hate that fucking game. Makes me feel stupid everytime I look at a board. Everything is fine and suddenly your queen is hanging and your opponent gives you a smug look, as in "did you really miss that?".
I was pretty good at chess, but when you get to the point where the only people at your skill level are 60 year old men who take 5-10 minutes per move I got incredibly bored. This was before the age of online chess, so the pool of opponents in my bumfuck nowhere area was tiny. Maybe I should try again with the emergence of online speed chess.
But yeah, patience is something I’m bad at I guess.
Chess is one for me but in that I literally don't know how to play it, as in don't really know what pieces do what or even which is which. They are as follows, king, queen, horse, castle, other guy, pawn.
The first time I tried playing chess it was online and I fucked up and had it so I could only move one piece to one space but since I didn't know the rules I thought it just wasn't letting me move and was desperately apologizing to the other player via the chat for not understanding how to play
They beat me, btw
Videogames. As someone trying to get into it competitively, i still struggle to achieve any sort of consistency in results. It's been 2 years and i still can't beat most of my friends, much less the rest of the scene.
For somebody who likes strategy games boy howdy am I bad at them!
When i briefly played starcraft i just couldnt build an early economy fast enough to mot lose the game in 5 minutes
Actively using a map, protractor, and compass to navigate myself around on foot in non-urban environments. Having a general gyst of being able to navigate when there's big fucking landmarks nearby to triangulation off of is one thing, but drop me in a forest in the middle of nowhere and the best I got is navigating by figuring out the direction the sun and moon are going.
You can't just take entirely different numbers and then put them together! That's unnatural and fails to rekon before God like Frankenstein did.
