Jerry’s Annotation Marginalia — “On Being Measured Incorrectly”
What bothered me wasn’t the number.
It was the confidence.
The article doesn’t ask what games do to a player — how they stretch time, build instinct, reward patience, sharpen judgment.
It only asks what box they belong in.
That’s not curiosity. That’s inventory management.
Gaming used to be one of the few spaces where age collapsed. Where a kid and an adult met on equal footing, trading skill instead of status. Now even that gets dragged back into the churn:
young → relevant old → decorative mastery → “lol unc”
The irony is simple.
People who chase youth in games burn out fastest. People who learn systems last.
So when a site insists my “gaming soul” has wrinkles, all I hear is relief — relief that longevity still exists, that not everything has to be disposable to matter.
If that reads as old, fine.
Rust keeps steel sharp longer than polish ever will.
— Jerry ‘The Ankle Biter’ Silverhand Margins only. Ink reacting to ink.