Subj : Re: Mothers Day
To   : Avon
From : Adept
Date : Tue May 16 2023 10:44:48

 Av>  Ad> E.g., science is a reliable category for me, but other people, outsid
 Av>  Ad> of my brother, can struggle with things like the order of the planets
 Av>  Ad> the solar system. Which I tend to think of as grade-school knowledge,
 Av>  Ad> least for the major planets.
 Av> Remind me not to play a competitive game of mini golf with you :)

Oh, me saying, "I tend to think of as grade-school knowledge" is not meant to be me saying, "Oh, clearly everyone is an idiot", just that it's obvious that I have an incorrect view on what's a normal level of knowledge for various science stuff.

And it's not like Mars being further away from the sun than the Earth matters in day-to-day life, if you're not trying to have some understanding on why the dots in the heavens are moving around as they are, or figuring out what some spacecraft is doing.

But I hope that minigolf with me isn't too bad. I like other people being successful, and generally am not an overly competitive person -- I'd rather try hard, but not keep score.

Though perhaps that'd annoy some people -- I like playing for fun, and with the Oculus, I have a strong preference for crazy shots that I think are makeable. Like one hole that I had great fun with, despite getting 7 over par or something, because I had a few shots that _kind of_ did what I want. E.g., my brother saying, "that was luck!", and me going, "No, I _intended_ to hit it hard, hit it off the back wall of the scenery, and have it bounce back to a useful point on the course. That's what I was _aiming_ for, and I _just missed_ doing what I was trying to do."

But, yeah, 7 over, so bouncing for fun was not great for the score.

 Av> But if you're ever over in New Zealand there's at lest two places we
 Av> could have a game, but perhaps minus the trivia questions as I'd suck at
 Av> them too :)

Hah! Sounds neat. What do the minigolf courses look like, over there?

I tend to be hard on German mini-golf courses. Mostly because they have some _really_ bad ideas on course design. E.g., instead of using carpet, they'll have a course that's all wood. So the ball just keeps rolling, and you wind up having to hit perfect shots or will have an extremely difficult next shot. Makes it much less fun.

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