Day 25

I think one of the most interesting things is how focused my writing has been. I'm not coming in and out of the program with random thoughts. Sure I was thinking about learning to draw and how that relates to the "everyone should learn (to) _" debates, but I was able to compartmentalize. Yeah I can think about that stuff, but I need to hit the Go button and when that happens, you need to focus.

I'll have my weekly summary up as well as a final wrap-up as well.


Last Day!


Starting of with Space Whack.
Almost beat the top score. My average dropped because I was trying to break into the 6s but once I did I had to do the same for the 7s.

Stabilizer: I could really hate this game. It wouldn't be hard. But I don't. (Not going to lie, I won't miss Data Room.) It's definitely the one I was most wary of going in and my performance really is hit-or-miss. But it also has the most to do: Locking onto an arbitrary position, rememebering it in sequence, then associating it with a letter. Without a doubt you're dong the most work of all the games when you play it. I'm just glad it doesn't make you repeat them all in sequence. But my point is, I'm more surprised at how well I do with it than mad at the game. Anyway, one final bout.
My biggest complaint is that it seems to ask the first and last a whole lot. I've had days where more than half of them were the first or last and there was no way I could give you the middle. I was a week or so in before I really started remembering every single location.
Yup. Still not even on the board. Oh well.

Visual Data Link (AKA The Grid): I thought I would kill this one. I expected to be past "the magic number 7" within the first couple weeks when I initially saw it. It's not like I don't have enough practice, either.
And a decent finish. Far from the top score, but the fact that I started in the 4s and landed in the 7s with some good back-and-forth in the middle meant that I was at least doing it right.

Input Module: I still can't belive this is the one I'm so good at. I used to get really scared to play since a) I knew it would be hard I could screw it all up and b) it would take a lot of energy to concentrate like that. But then I realized that while it still took something for me to do it, it wasn't nearly as bad as I was dreading.
Damn. 8th place. My highest was "only" 9.3.

Rotating Data Link: This one still gets me. I'm almost never stumped by the rotation. In fact, I don't even think I could put it in as it's given. But still, that extra brainpower has some cost since I'm still significanlty behind in this compared to the regular grid.
And a decent finish, especially compared to more recent attempts.

Input Module with Lid: This is one where I thought it was going to be so hard that I put everything I could into it, and it shows. At one point it was my best game, but that was in part because I wasn't really using the visual patterns in the standard Input Module.
Not the best score, but I still made it well into the board which is really quite something.

3D Cube: This one is so much easier than the data room on pretty much every level. And I don't think I've taken it as seriously.
And a respectable 2nd place finish.

Asteroids: I don't take this one serously at all. I mean I still try, but I really don't put a whole lot of thinking and rehersing into it.
Not a great score. Couldn't break into the 6s