• Swordgeek@lemmy.ca
    50·
    23 days ago

    Music.

    I’m a shitty musician, but I love it. Guitar, keyboard, clarinet, I love playing.

    • Weirdfish@lemmy.world
      7·
      23 days ago

      Same, got Rocksmith and a couple bass guitars. Love it, but even after five years I’m not willing to try playing in front of anyone.

      • lennybird@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        23 days ago

        There are several tracks of learning musical instruments, at least the way I see it. Learn to play other people’s stuff for fun solo, compose and record your own stuff, or jam with a group of buddies.

        I’ll be honest I never got into playing other people’s music but composed in the past. That was nice because you had absolute control but it also limited the creative input and stunted my own growth in music theory that becomes a must when jamming.

        This past year I’ve played more than maybe my entire life with jamming with family. It has been by far the most fun. We just make up our own simple shit and grow together.

        • Weirdfish@lemmy.world
          2·
          23 days ago

          Oh I want to play with my family, it’s just that the bastards are all musicians who have been playing for 40 years.

          • lennybird@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            23 days ago

            Then they should be able to accelerate your learning! My sis never played until this year and she’s kicking ass on bass! It’s a drudge for a bit though, no doubt.

    • gramie@lemmy.ca
      1·
      23 days ago

      I also have RockSmith and a bass guitar. However, for 3 years I have been playing in local groups (the last year has been a community open mic where up to a dozen musicians sit around and strum together) and having a lot of fun. The thing is that these are almost all elderly people, self-taught, so they are not trying to become rock stars, just to enjoy playing music together. Playing music I have never heard before has been very good for developing my ear.

      I go through periods of playing RockSmith a lot, and then not playing it at all for several months. Discovering user-created tracks that can be added as DLC has been fantastic.

      • mysticpickle@lemmy.ca
        3·
        23 days ago

        Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is where I caved and set it on easy. Don’t got all day to memorize a bajillion attack patterns down to the tenth of a second but shieet… that story is a banger.

    • papalonian@lemmy.world
      3·
      22 days ago

      Ah yup. I’m pretty good at the single player games that I play, but whenever my buddies want to do any kind of matchmaking, it’s some of the best fun I have being absolutely awful at something. Consistently at the bottom of the squad and loving it, baby

    • gerryflap@feddit.nl
      11·
      23 days ago

      Same. I don’t like playing RTS games the good way. I just like building a cozy little camp and defending it, slowly exploring the map and just building whatever units I feel like building. I enjoy games like Age of Empires and Beyond All Reason because the maps tend to be quite large and random. It usually takes a while before I get overwhelmed if I’m losing I those games, and if I’m winning I can spend a lot of time just messing around without the game being over.

      Games like Starcraft or Warcraft seem to be built too much for quick games where you have to be constantly moving. Expansion locations are very determined and scarce and resources run out way too fast to just turtle in my little corner.

    • 3abas@lemmy.world
      4·
      23 days ago

      After the first few campaigns, all my hours get logged with mods and God mode, ain’t nobody got time to constantly grind for weeks, my campaign needs to wrap up by the end of the day!

    • WindyRebel@lemmy.world
      3·
      22 days ago

      You’ve done a good job! You used sound and letter knowledge along with phonemes to encode your answer. Often when adding a suffix of -ing to a word, you will need to double your consonant.

      I’m proud of your attempt. All you’re missing is an extra L after the first one!

    • RBWells@lemmy.world
      1·
      22 days ago

      But you enjoy it? I ran for years, got better at it, never particularly fast, but never enjoyed it at all. Best I can say is that I always felt better on a day I ran, but never when I was actually running, that always felt dreadful.