Most of the game happens off the scoreboard.
Rocket League and Fortnite are built on waiting as much as action.
It’s easy to treat that downtime as nothing. It isn’t.
Playing alone feels safe. Your mistakes are yours, your pace is yours.
The moment you add teammates, the system changes.
Rocket League and Fortnite both make that painfully clear.
Winning hides mistakes.
A lucky bounce in Rocket League or a third-party wipe in Fortnite makes you feel clever.
But half the time you didn’t play well — you just didn’t get punished.
Sometimes the best way to learn is to lose on purpose.
I play a lot of Rocket League and Fortnite.
Not because I’m chasing a leaderboard. Not even because I’m particularly good.
I play them because they scratch the same itch as tinkering with servers or gardens: systems you can learn, stress, and eventually bend without breaking.
