What is something you enjoy doing but suck at?
What is something you enjoy doing but suck at?
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Video games. I play a lot of them, and I suck at all of them, but I’ll be damned if I don’t enjoy them.
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no shame in switching to easy. I personally don't have the time to "git good" but I do enjoy me a good story
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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.
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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
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RTS games.
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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.
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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!
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Just about anything creative: music, art, writing. It doesn’t stop me from trying, but it’s clear the creative vision or raw talent that some others have is missing.
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Sleeping. Being happy.
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I'm not bad at these I'm just out of practice 😢😴
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Playing Shattered Pixel Dungeon
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Life.
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I was gonna say this, but OP also said "something you enjoy"...
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I have my moments of joy in life. But I still suck at it, IMO.
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Speling
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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!
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Playing Football (Soccer). I've got the stamina and speed well above average but my aim is beyond horrid
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Dancing. I did go to a party last week with a DJ and danced my ass off anyway.
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Playing guitar. Strum (no, wait), strum (no, wait), etc.
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Running. I'm slow and can't run particularly far for how long I've been doing it.
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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.
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Disc golf
I don't have the power or accuracy to score well nor the time to invest in improving. I do love the time walking through the woods with family and friends sharing the experience as we goof around.
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Im like this too, but 5 min on YouTube made me improve as it made me realise i should throw in a straight line and not like a discos
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Singing. I sound like a dying animal but idc
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Rejoice, you sing like a swan !
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Cycling. I'm suck at it as i don't have the stamina to ride further than 5km and my place is hilly. So that's why i convert my old bike into ebike hence eliminating the stamina and hill issue.
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Graffiti drawing
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Your dad.
Ba-dum-tish
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And... Comedy!
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...but don't stop!
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I sorta feel everything. I feel like im not very good at doing things in general. Planning and thinking yeah. Like in video games my characters are better from the build than my game play. Even then though I do weird builds that do interesting things but are not necessarily optimal.
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It's OK. You can be a sneak archer. No one is going to judge you.
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Chess. It's taken me a few years to climb from 400 to 800 elo (1100 on lichess). Then I see comments from people who say "I got to 1000 after I learned how the pieces move" and it's so demoralizing
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Vidya games!
Specifically, any games requiring “twitch” reflexes. I love ‘em, but I do not have the genetic material to master them.
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I was the opposite, hated games that required patience, now I'm like you, I used to full focus play games, now I multitask and watch tv, wonder if that changed it
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Socializing and hanging out with people.
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"Socializing" as in just hanging out and asking people about their day is awkward AF for me. I need there to be some other kind of activity being the primary focus with talking being secondary or I'm going home.
Board games are particularly good for this. There's usually turns so when you're not actively doing stuff so you can chat with other folks if you feel for it. If you're not feeling particularly chatty, you can just quietly analyze the board state and figure out what you're planning to do next.
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I've been playing Clonehero drumming for about four years now. Nearly every day... and I still suck, miss pads completely, piss poor timing, no groove. Still enjoy it.
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Singing & drawing. I do also try to do things I am not naturally good at on purpose, because I am not good at them, though I wouldn't say I enjoy those things. Ended up enjoying gardening that way, cooking, dancing, and am good at those now, and enjoy them. Spanish, any language except English I suck but keep trying.
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I was gonna say chess but i checked and I'm 90th percentile. So I'm shit but far too many people are worse.
I'll say cricket then. I can't ever play at a professional level or even expect to, but still not terrible. Could play at a club level at most.
Edit. Oooh writing. I love writing and im completely terrible at that.
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Pinball
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Making videos for my YouTube channel. I like having random ideas, making the vids then uploading them, but man am I not good at it. My vids are mediocre at best compared to other YouTube channels I watch, but I enjoy the process.
I really like when I'm doing a funny video, I'm working on editing and think "oh this would be funny here" and add that, and do that over and over until it's been 20 hours of editing for a 10 minute video and I have to force myself to export it and be done.
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tip, take it or leave it.
don't try to emulate what someone else is doing, be creative as you want.
even Picasso couldn't paint like Frida, but both were amazing on their own merits.
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Oh yeah for sure, I get inspirations from other channels, but I don't try to directly rip them off. I don't have that kind of charm and my videos aren't all a single genre, they're kinda all over the place.
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my job
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pretty much everything i do.
I'm an amateur at most things, don't have the time/money/energy to become an expert in anything really. But I like trying new stuff all the time. I've learned 6 different foreign languages, but am fluent in none of them, for example.
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Breakdance
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Leaving good comments that aren't polarizing and don't hurt sensitive feelings since my take on something doesn't match your take.
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Holy shit. This like finding the holy grail. Or antigravity. Or the nonexistence of god. Or p=np.
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Snooker
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Snooker is so ridiculously difficult. If I knock in a 9 break (red, black, red) I am so proud of myself. And yet I have played against guys who will knock in a 60 or 70 like it's nothing.
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Yeah... 60/70 like it's nothing? That's nearly pro level. I play with a friend, he sucks just a tiny bit less than I do 🤣
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Sewing, mending, repairing clothes. I am really bad at it. Also knitting. I will never be able to understand wtf I am seeing.
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singing. i don't really suck at it that much; I'm not tone deaf. but i just have an annoying voice.
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Playing Minecraft
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Overwatch. 4,600 hours and you'd think I'd be alright by now LOL.
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Making comments on here.
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Dota.
I was literally 1 MMR after starting. At my peak I was slightly above the average player. Now I am average. Years later.
I am generally pretty good with the games I invest time into. Not this one.
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Surfing...
I really love it, but I also really suck
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Living.
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Drawing. I like doing it, but my stick figures look rather ill.
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World of Tanks
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Just spend more money on microtransactions bro 🤷♂️
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In my case it'd be "pay but still not win", it's a skill issue unfortunately
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Most things I enjoy are just hard enough that I need to really concentrate but not so hard that it's overwhelming. It's not that I suck at these things but broadly speaking, if something is completely effortless to me then it's probably not that enjoyable.
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Crosswords
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Guitar
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Yeah, love to play and sing - especially with a few beers
But better to do it with no one around...
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Where penis joke?
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Skateboarding.
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Handstands 🤸🏻♀️
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Art and writing
Music.
I'm a shitty musician, but I love it. Guitar, keyboard, clarinet, I love playing.
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.
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.
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.