Work felt just as chaotic back then honestly.

My grandpa always taught me to sharpen knives by hand, not with an electric grinder. It's like what @the_shane said, you just get a feel for it that way. Now everything's about speed and that real skill gets lost.

Funny how @keith788's story hits home. I used to laugh at my dad for keeping road atlases, thinking GPS was foolproof. Then my phone died on a backroad trip, and I had to ask for directions at a gas station. Now I've got a state map tucked in my glove box, and it feels like a security blanket.

You mentioned seeing the game respond to inputs was cool, but rock-paper-scissors felt too basic for me to get that real coding feel. I only felt it when I made a trivia game with score tracking and timers, lol. The logic was way harder to get right, but that struggle made it click more for me.