My cubing skills have really deteriorated, but it’s fun sometimes.
The video is just messing around, nothing serious, and pretty slow.
It’s a good way to relieve stress and I think it’s fun to do whilst thinking.

But I was thinking, and I realised that cubing was such an appropriate hobby for me. It really suits me. I LOVE LOVE LOVE games and activities with ridiculously high skill ceilings.

I really hated some games because they were too easy or were too luck based. I absolutely hated games like that. One of the reasons I liked Runescape was because of the hundreds of hours necessary to get a single maxed skill.

With cubing, SO MUCH TIME and effort is needed to get really good. My dream was to get ZB as fast as CFOP, and that would have taken literally thousands of hours, and that pursuit was exciting to me.

There was also pretty deterministic ways to win. There are NO impossible cases on the cube, every case is within a subset of possible and impossible. I really liked that.

Lastly, there was the individuality associated with it. Everyone has their own style, algorithms, methods, and ways of thinking. If you sucked, it was your own fault, everything is up to you, and you control everything. If you were great, you alone reaped all the benefits. I LOVED that.

A lot of these reasons overlap with Starcraft which is why I play that so much now.

But I approach life the same way I approach cubing. Every social situation is a different case, and with the appropriate algorithmic response, things will work out. I look at life in absolutes, everything can be reduced to black and white, right or wrong. Combined with brute force memorisation, those are the quintessential traits that embody me.

tl;dr: I miss cubing, and I suck now. ;____;