"The things I am good at"

Imagine, you just finished your day job, you arrive at home and you have two hours, just for you. Your kids - if you have any - are at a relative and your partner won’t be home for the next two hours with that amazing take-out you love. No need to clean the house, prepare the meal or do anything:

A time just for you.

So you fire up your favorite game, install yourself comfortably, bring some beverage and kick start that game you had in mind all day.

With just a twist.

Once ready, you ask GameGPT to take control, and you let it play for you. You cheer at every wins, kills, progress it makes, because in the end its YOUR game, the progress is for your account, so that counts, right ?

But you feel something odd. It makes total sense to let GameGPT take control. After all, it’s faster than you, more precise, and can even kill the enemy while you go search another bottle of your favorite drink.

But the fun isn’t really there anymore, so you decide to take the control back. You define some rules ;

“I’ll only let GameGPT tackle the hard ones, but I’ll have fun on the rest, the things I’m good at!”

So you take your pad, and start playing. The game is fun again. You make progress. Granted, you are slower, but this time you know what you do and where you are going.

At some point, you hit a boss. You try a few times but can’t beat it. Despite your best efforts, it seems you won’t be able to succeed.
No worries, that’s the deal, you fire up GameGPT and it destroy it in no time.

Level up.

You take back the rein, make some progress, hit some tricky adversaries, but you manage to get to the next boss. This time, you don’t bother, you fire up GameGPT directly, kill the boss.

Level up.

Okay, this level is a bit harder, but that makes sense, as we progress, the game follow our experience, so you go through. But damn, those small enemies are hard. You don’t want to tell it, but we all know you just fired up GameGPT on some of these, at least that way you’re making progress. You hate being stuck.

Boss level, GameGPT, dead in no time.

Level up.

Your turn. You move, face an enemy, but wait! What’s the button to fire that special attack that is so efficient ? GameGPT will know, you’ll let it handle this. Well, the enemies too. All the enemies at that point because now, everything seems hard. And hard is frustrating. And you don’t like being frustrated anymore.

And as you watch GameGPT doing all the grunt work, you think back of your original rule:

“I’ll only let GameGPT tackle the hard ones, but I’ll have fun on the rest, the things I’m good at!”

…

“The things I’m good at.”

…

“What am I good at anymore ?”