Slashdot Games Story | The Right Amount of “Challenge” In IT & Gaming
(I am playing with Peggle nowodays.)
how smart people need to find a certain amount of intellectual challenge from day to day. If they don’t find it in their workplace, they’ll end up playing complex, ‘smart’ games, like Civilization IV or Chess — and if they do find it in their workplace, they’re more likely to sit down with a nice game of Pac-Man, Katamari Damacy, or Peggle
Movie: Coraline (2009) (4/5)
Looks really great! The characters are interesting and well developed, but the story is a bit slow (which is totally fine if you are not tired, like I was :[ ).
Researchers (Bloom (1985), Bryan & Harter (1899), Hayes (1989), Simmon & Chase (1973)) have shown it takes about ten years to develop expertise in any of a wide variety of areas, including chess playing, music composition, telegraph operation, painting, piano playing, swimming, tennis, and research in neuropsychology and topology. The key is deliberative practice: not just doing it again and again, but challenging yourself with a task that is just beyond your current ability, trying it, analyzing your performance while and after doing it, and correcting any mistakes. Then repeat. And repeat again. There appear to be no real shortcuts: even Mozart, who was a musical prodigy at age 4, took 13 more years before he began to produce world-class music. In another genre, the Beatles seemed to burst onto the scene with a string of #1 hits and an appearance on the Ed Sullivan show in 1964. But they had been playing small clubs in Liverpool and Hamburg since 1957, and while they had mass appeal early on, their first great critical success, Sgt. Peppers, was released in 1967.
Movie: Angels & Daemons (2/5)
Week story + characters. The plot is clear from the beginning, the only question is who is the bad guy. Running up and down in Rome is not really an adventure and the only thrill is that will someone be hit by their car or not.
