Are You Good At Anything?

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I'm good at playing that one game where you shoot deer!

― Mandee, Friday, 25 April 2003 14:44 (twenty-one years ago) link

hunting?

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 25 April 2003 14:45 (twenty-one years ago) link

YOU THINK IT'S A GAME MOTHERFUCKER!

― bambi (Oops), Friday, 25 April 2003 14:46 (twenty-one years ago) link

Games... I was good at one game in my life, and that was Tapper on the C64. So long ago I was still in school! I got good enough that one night I got up to a million and had to switch it off. Never really played it again. I was almost proud of that.

― ChristineSH (chrissie1068), Friday, 25 April 2003 14:56 (twenty-one years ago) link

C64! I MISS C64!

http://www.xs4all.nl/~rimmer/boot/C64.gif

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 25 April 2003 15:17 (twenty-one years ago) link

Julia, I really don't feel that my apologies are unnecessary. I don't know if it's that I'm Canadian or just an idiot, but I always feel it's necessary. I'm trying to curb it, though. The fact that everyone around here is so talented is what brings me back.

― Bryan (Bryan), Friday, 25 April 2003 16:06 (twenty-one years ago) link

hunting! That's it! Yeah, I'm really good at it.

― Mandee, Friday, 25 April 2003 16:08 (twenty-one years ago) link

I can make a crying baby stop crying or a whining toddler stop whining in under 3 minutes

― luna (luna.c), Friday, 25 April 2003 16:10 (twenty-one years ago) link

It takes them that long to stop breathing when you smother them with a pillow? I did not know that.

― Bryan (Bryan), Friday, 25 April 2003 16:16 (twenty-one years ago) link

she doesn't use a pillow!

― buttch (Oops), Friday, 25 April 2003 16:17 (twenty-one years ago) link

ssssshhhhhhhh

― luna (luna.c), Friday, 25 April 2003 16:27 (twenty-one years ago) link

I can make a grown man start crying in under 3 minutes

― I'm luna (Oops), Friday, 25 April 2003 16:27 (twenty-one years ago) link

Tis true.

― I'm a man who Luna made cry (nickalicious), Friday, 25 April 2003 16:29 (twenty-one years ago) link

I'm good at gettin busy with the ladies. But we already know this.

― Chris V. (Chris V), Friday, 25 April 2003 16:29 (twenty-one years ago) link

I loved Commodore 64 games. I OWNED Crazy Caveman! I was kinda good at it too.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 25 April 2003 16:30 (twenty-one years ago) link

The ILX gods wouldn't let me put 'luna@HOTTIEmail.com' :(

― buttch (Oops), Friday, 25 April 2003 16:32 (twenty-one years ago) link

Forbidden Forest. Really bad graphics and a ten-minute wait between rounds while loading... and the figure does this dance in the meantime that eventually comes to mean 'I've lost the will to live'...

The good old days, eh?

― ChristineSH (chrissie1068), Friday, 25 April 2003 16:34 (twenty-one years ago) link

I remember Forbidden Forest, I loved that dance, I used to mimic it during that LOOOOOOOOONG wait. I was way too easily entertained; some things never change. *dancing in chair*

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 25 April 2003 16:39 (twenty-one years ago) link

I got to the big snakey head thing at the end (was it the end?), but I don't think I ever killed it. I was rubbish at everything except Tapper.

― ChristineSH (chrissie1068), Friday, 25 April 2003 16:42 (twenty-one years ago) link

aww you guys are just trying to butter me up

― luna (luna.c), Friday, 25 April 2003 16:43 (twenty-one years ago) link

I never made it to no "big snakey head thing"...I played the games, I was never quite "good" at them (except for Crazy Cavemen, but to be good at that game, you just had to kinda keep moving left).

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 25 April 2003 16:47 (twenty-one years ago) link

My FAVORITE was actually Dr. Who. I (still in school then too) actually forgot to go to sleep a couple nights cuz of that game!

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 25 April 2003 16:48 (twenty-one years ago) link

I used to play Gorf in my head when I was stoned.

― Bryan (Bryan), Friday, 25 April 2003 16:49 (twenty-one years ago) link

It was a big red serpent head. Filled half the screen. I have a feeling it only appeared intermittently, like when there was a lightning flash or something. Am I remembering this wrong?

One of the last 64 games I bought was Bubble Bobble. Then I did something stupid and bought an AtariST.

― ChristineSH (chrissie1068), Friday, 25 April 2003 16:52 (twenty-one years ago) link

I pulled a groin Say it ain't so, Chris! I hope it doesn't affect your performance. (hee hee)

Hurrah for nickalicious and his ladyfriend!

― Sarah McLUsky (coco), Friday, 25 April 2003 16:55 (twenty-one years ago) link

Luna in "Last Tango in Paris" shockah!

― Chris V. (Chris V), Friday, 25 April 2003 16:56 (twenty-one years ago) link

Oh yeah. What am I good at?
Good god ya'll. What am I good for? Absolutely nothin'!

Um... I'm good at posting on iLX, quantitatively speaking anyway.
I think I'm a decent rockstar, I keep up with my journal pretty well, and I'm good at being appreciative.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Friday, 25 April 2003 16:57 (twenty-one years ago) link

I'd like to think I'm getting better at Web design... although unless I get even better still and pursue it as a career, I'm sure this is a really useless asset.

― ChristineSH (chrissie1068), Friday, 25 April 2003 17:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Come on, are you really shocked?

― luna (luna.c), Friday, 25 April 2003 17:01 (twenty-one years ago) link

Martin, how do you hold the paddle?

Phil, I've not played much in years, except for a bit against a girlfriend who is England's #1 in her wheelchair class, and hoping to make the next Paralympics. I used to favour the more typically European grip. For a while, I played in the more Chinese style to try to give opponents a chance, but I got as good at that. I wasn't world class at this by a long way (unlike, say, Minesweeper) - I'd probably have got my blue at Cambridge had I stayed much more than a term, as I was very probably the best in the first year, but I also once played a guy who was then the UK #3, and he murdered me. I don't think I'd have ever got nearly that good, had I kept it up.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Friday, 25 April 2003 20:16 (twenty-one years ago) link

I'm quite good at socially ostracizing myself and complaining. Also quite good at droning on one guitar chord for a couple hours.

― Chris Barrus (Chris Barrus), Friday, 25 April 2003 23:25 (twenty-one years ago) link

I have a sixth sense for knowing when another driver is going to pull in front of me without bothering to signal first. And I have an (I hope) unparalleled ability to piss off anyone I meet.
:^(

― j.lu (j.lu), Friday, 25 April 2003 23:41 (twenty-one years ago) link

(Stuff I'm not good at but do anyway, since I spent the afternoon and evening getting the pages to work again: webcomics. a comedy and a drama. From last year. The idea was to see how much of a comic strip you could do without drawing anything, since I can't draw worth a damn.)

― Tep (ktepi), Saturday, 26 April 2003 01:34 (twenty-one years ago) link

Ugh, I just realized that the thing that I'm best at in life is probably Nethack. I'm ashamed, but still proud. SAD.

― Dan I., Saturday, 26 April 2003 01:54 (twenty-one years ago) link

I can play piano. I can draw okay. I can write okay. I'm good at Q-bert. I can read really quickly, which isn't always good. And I'm good at crossword puzzles.

― kirsten (kirsten), Saturday, 26 April 2003 02:55 (twenty-one years ago) link

I used to favour the more typically European grip. For a while, I played in the more Chinese style to try to give opponents a chance, but I got as good at that.

Martin, I have NOOO idea how that works... The Chinese grip, that is. It's insane - when I try it, often I'll strike the ball at a funny angle and it'll go flying off to the side.

― phil-two (phil-two), Saturday, 26 April 2003 04:18 (twenty-one years ago) link

Yeah, it takes some getting used to, and it does give you less reach, but you can put on a lot of spin, and it's good for the really sharp defensive reaction shot too.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Saturday, 26 April 2003 10:21 (twenty-one years ago) link

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