Yeah, I don't think either of us acquired anything like mastery with Filament... at least, it didn't feel that way? Objectively, in the 5-puzzle series, 3 would usually be the one that took the longest (I know that some took over an hour), and then 4 and 5 would be fast. I would've assume (but don't know) that the 4th and 5th should be harder, which would imply that we did learn something... but it never felt like I learned anything, so anything we picked up was probably one step more unreliable than intuition.
(In retrospect, it feels a lot like how I smashed my head against all my math classes at university: each new week is a new set of topics, which don't really build on each other, except gradually and over years. This stinks of metaphor.)
Re Qube, I let my partner entirely drive; I only participated in maybe 10% of it, so I have a lot less to say on the matter (whereas with Filament I was much closer to 30 or 40%). I think at the time I compared it disfavorably to Talos Principle.
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Date: 2021-01-08 06:50 pm (UTC)Yeah, I don't think either of us acquired anything like mastery with Filament... at least, it didn't feel that way? Objectively, in the 5-puzzle series, 3 would usually be the one that took the longest (I know that some took over an hour), and then 4 and 5 would be fast. I would've assume (but don't know) that the 4th and 5th should be harder, which would imply that we did learn something... but it never felt like I learned anything, so anything we picked up was probably one step more unreliable than intuition.
(In retrospect, it feels a lot like how I smashed my head against all my math classes at university: each new week is a new set of topics, which don't really build on each other, except gradually and over years. This stinks of metaphor.)
Re Qube, I let my partner entirely drive; I only participated in maybe 10% of it, so I have a lot less to say on the matter (whereas with Filament I was much closer to 30 or 40%). I think at the time I compared it disfavorably to Talos Principle.