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 @user-882 
 
 I learned from the typing games my mother assigned me to play when I was
 homeschooled. Never got around to learning the number key symbols though...
 thanks for being so forward-thinking, mom
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=== SIMILARITY RANKED ===

--- #1 fediverse/5239 ---
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 I play video games to help me think just like programmers play video games to
 help them sleep
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--- #2 fediverse/4072 ---
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 I like games that test my reflexes
 
 I also like games that test my wit
 
 but most of all I like games that test my patience with strategy
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--- #3 fediverse/97 ---
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 @user-110 Exactly! I play games to practice strategy and empathy, not to stand
 triumphant over a virtual foe. Why should I care for the lessons of others
 when mine so often go unlearnt?
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--- #4 fediverse/4468 ---
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 oh look at me, typing my thoughts while doing chores. And you all get to
 listen, you lucky ducks ; )
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--- #5 fediverse/5488 ---
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 okay ttyl I gotta go play video games I guess >.>
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--- #6 fediverse/5072 ---
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 I like to play with the camera zoomed in all the way and by only using my
 mouse. no keyboard. just clicking noise.
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--- #7 fediverse/5185 ---
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 frankly it makes a ton of sense to me that computer programmers would have a
 game playing in the monitor. Gotta keep those brains active after all.
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--- #8 fediverse/4336 ---
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 gonna play more video games, currently have 11 tabs of written posts open in
 my browser...
 
 (okay a few of them get a little off-topic, but hey I have ADHD what do you
 expect of me)
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 I fucking hate how games give dopamine
 
 they're so much more educational than that.
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 acceleration-ism is just "learning the truth faster than they do"
 
 tbh should be more like "learning things to show them" but eh whatever gets
 the job done
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--- #11 fediverse/5719 ---
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 I love dispatch tables! which is a term I just learned and a concept I have
 been using for a while.
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 have I ever told you that I am my mother's firstborn after 7 or 11 stillborns?
 she was 35 or 38
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--- #13 fediverse/112 ---
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 I live through the moments where I find a folder of stuff I made that I forgot
 about and I can go back and see it for the first time.
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 had a dream that we gamified all work and then put them into one single
 mega-game so whenever you wanted you could work on an arbitrary project and it
 would spin up a new game and take your inputs and use them to accomplish
 whatever was happening
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 @user-95 back when games had more value because you only had like, 6 of them
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 it is significantly more engaging to watch people play MMOs when they've
 unbound all their action bars from their number keys and are forced to click
 on all the abilities. That way you can actually follow what moves they're
 doing.
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 @user-1037 
 
 oooo those are cool, but it didn't have the "puzzlepiece" arrangement. It was
 more... 2 dimensional I think? More like putting marbles on a chinese-checkers
 board. And they had relationships if you moused over them, like...
 semi-transparent arrows connecting them I think? It was different than
 anything I'd ever seen before.
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 whoa
 
 cool
 
 do you... turn the sensitivity up so you don't have to move your hand very
 much so it can remain in position with it's thumb on the enter key?
 
 ... now I want to try that. Mine doesn't have enter, there's no numpad. So I
 have the arrow keys.
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 if you play optimally, you'll never get any chance to make decisions.
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 @user-883 
 
 I love that. You're saying I should learn Assembly? ? ?
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