Thank you so much for this. I thought "I don't care about football, but I can skim through it." A few hours later I'd finished it and it was definitely an unexpected positive experience.
Now we are grown men, we don’t run like Usain Bolt, so subterfuge and collusion have become our weapons. Eleven months of the year are spent planning. Collaborating with a friend is where the fun is — we can spend hours discussing approaches.
I love that, and unrelated to tag it brings to mind my experience or multiplayer games. When I was a a late teen I was terrifyingly good at shooters, my reflexes were very quick and I got into a some that was hard to beat. As I got older that reflexive edge, while not gone, isn’t a match for today’s teens. What I have however is a kind sense of game flow, likely patterns of behavior, and how maps work. I’ve become old and sneakh and mean in other words. Where I sort of brute-forced wins before, now I finesse them.
Getting older isn’t all fun, but the ability to be conniving with more experience is a real pleasure. Strategy takes the place of force, and it can often be more effective.
As the saying goes, "old age and treachery will always overcome youth and skill." (I tried to find a citation, but the googles were less than helpful.)
I've somewhat had this feeling in some ArmA games (casual modes though) where I would watch some newer players jump around like they're playing Call of Duty through my sniper rifle or over an LMG. It's quite fun to watch and I usually put them out of their misery once it gets boring.
On the other hand, when breaching a room the same players will murder entire squads without loosing a shred of health (atleast until a nearby player obtains a tank with HE rounds)
Is it just me, or does the font-size of the main body of the article enlarge automatically, quickly, and slightly terrifyingly, until the screen is some very long story on a black background seemingly completely unrelated to football? I may be missing the point.
Oh, and here I go all over again with 17776. I remember the journey from eagerly anticipating new updates to saving them up so I didn't reach the end too quickly.
Similar scenario that me and my family had with some of our friends and their children.
The parents of my friends had bought an annoying toy for the children of my friends - a duck that sang an annoying tune.
At a New Year’s Eve party at their house our friend gave the duck to one of our children. I promptly hid it behind the TV. A few months later they found it.
As they are friends we only see once or twice a year, there followed a few years of hiding it with each other when we got together for holidays etc.
For example I hid it in their car one camping trip, they left it on our doorstep after they had visited one time.
Not a game of "tag", but I told a stupid joke to a friend on a family vacation and variations of it have been going back and forth between us regularly for 49 years now.
It's actually in poor taste these days, so I won't post it, but we were 14 years old and thought it funny as can be!
