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MIC132 | 7 months ago

This is also very noticeable in Video Games. I remember the first time I played One Step From Eden, I thought I would never be able to keep up with it's frantic pace, but the more practice and understanding I had the more the game "slowed down". To a point of course, it's still a fast game but it feels orders of magnitude slower than initially.

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Cthulhu_|7 months ago

Same with e.g. the Souls games, whose bosses are often designed to be visually and audibly overwhelming when you first encounter them. But after a while, when you get better, come back to a fight later, or watch someone else playing, you'll see it very differently from playing yourself, to the point where a lot of things just feel painfully slow and/or clearly telegraphed.

Doesn't make it much easier though as the window for when you should hit that dodge button is still narrow.

foxyv|7 months ago

I fly fighter jets in a simulator called DCS. When you get task saturated you can feel the time speed up and then slow down. Hearing the RWR scream "missile missile missile" at you slows down the seconds to a crawl as you yank the stick and pray you turned in time to out run it. Then time speeds up to a frantic rush when you are trying to operate the radar and not hit a mountain at the same time.

Human time sense is just so weird when you pay attention to it a little.