If your reply is people should know the apps by color… first, what about people who are red-blue colorblind? Second, if you’re relying on color, why have shapes at all? What value do three vertical rectangles with absolutely minuscule internal details bring to the table?

Finally, what on earth is the circle? I had to click it to find out that it’s PowerPoint. Who thinks PowerPoint, an application that has a default document shape of a 16x9 rectangle, should be represented by a circle?

…BUT the lines between cells are so indistinguishable that this just look like interlocking Ls, not cells. At best it has you trying to remember what app begins with the letter F. Is this figma?

The purple one is close to identical to the second icon, so how is someone supposed to guess which?

Told one if them how I keep just watching my serve for spin and placement instead of centering myself. He said when I get older I’ll move less and less. Let him know my age and he said “No, way, you look twenties, good for you.”

I replied I would gladly trade looking old to feel that young instead.

Okay, that 11 is going to piss me off all weekend. Like I said right after taking it, there were parts that seemed to test memory, not English comprehension and I'm certain that's where I got dinged.

EDIT: Hours later, I’m really feeling it in the knees. This new form is equivalent to doing a 1/4 squat, leaping up and forward while twisting my torso, then resetting back to do it again in the .2 seconds it will take the opponent to return the ball.

It was much more reliant on my knees and hips and much less use of my wrist. I was sweaty and exhausted the whole way through. I guess that tells me I've been playing lazily all these years and just getting by. I'm excited to continue relearning how to play, despite how incredibly awkward it feels.

Social situations are easier for me when 1) there’s a set activity everyone is engaging in and 2) I am in charge. That sounds weird, but being the GM or being the host of a game day reduces my social anxiety by at least 50%.

People who’ve known me awhile might be nodding as they read all that.

There’s a game store in Vancouver with board game days. I haven’t gone because I’ve lost whatever muscle I used to control my social anxiety.

Using this convention to relearn how to sit with strangers again; only way for me to play board games again since I don’t have a friend group up here.