[HN Gopher] Having a game I'm into makes every day enjoyable
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Having a game I'm into makes every day enjoyable
Author : NonUmemoto
Score : 118 points
Date : 2023-12-23 05:52 UTC (1 days ago)
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| ChainOfFools wrote:
| consider how the same sentiment sounds stated in the inverse.
| even the most generous formulations, something like: "not every
| day is enjoyable when I don't have a game to be into," could pass
| for the opening sentence of a dystopian novel.
|
| I'm reminded mostly of schopenhauer's remark that reading is
| simply the replaying of another's thoughts, and video games,
| especially scripted RPGs, extend this notion of "replaying" to
| its dismal conclusion.
| SeanAnderson wrote:
| > I'm reminded mostly of schopenhauer's remark that reading is
| simply the replaying of another's thoughts, and video games,
| especially scripted RPGs, extend this notion of "replaying" to
| its dismal conclusion.
|
| Is the implication here that reading books is also bad?
| ChrisLTD wrote:
| Reading is more interactive than that Schopenhauer quote gives
| it credit for being. When I'm reading something challenging or
| interesting, it's almost like I'm having a conversation with
| the author.
| haswell wrote:
| > _reading is simply the replaying of another 's thoughts_
|
| And as it turns out, replaying someone else's thoughts can be
| highly rewarding. It transmits ideas and satiates the brain's
| need for new information. It helps ideas spread, and can
| fundamentally alter the direction of one's life.
|
| Another way to look at this is that the words are a form of
| program that configures your brain. The act of reading changes
| the reader. What you choose to read will modulate this change.
| Characterizing reading as simply replaying thoughts really
| misses what's happening, which is a fascinating transmission of
| information between biological animals who invented a word game
| complex enough for us to enable us to dismiss it as "replaying
| thoughts". And for sake of argument, let's say it's just
| replaying thoughts. That's pretty interesting/incredible on its
| own.
|
| Video games usually scratch a different kind of itch. They
| provide challenging tasks in a structured environment with a
| clear feedback loop that indicates progress. The ones that
| include dialogue options layer on an additional level of
| interactivity/feedback.
|
| What it unclear is why this notion has or must have a dismal
| conclusion.
| keiferski wrote:
| I think the point is more that it's very easy to go through
| life only thinking (reading) the thoughts of others, and
| never truly thinking for yourself. In our hyper-information
| age, I think this is an especially common practice. Why start
| from scratch when there are already so many starting points
| others have thought of? Why build an original LEGO design
| when there are so many premade ones? Etc.
|
| https://la.utexas.edu/users/hcleaver/330T/350kPEESchopenRead.
| ..
| kevmo314 wrote:
| The inverse isn't really implied in the statement. In other
| words, a world where every day is enjoyable without a having a
| game doesn't violate the sentiment.
|
| That seems like a more generous formulation.
| deadbabe wrote:
| I agree it's somewhat dystopian when referring to video games,
| however I feel some types of games can offer genuine
| fulfillment. I used to play tennis and volleyball regularly,
| and although these are sports they could basically be
| considered physical forms of games. The routine of training and
| competing against others definitely added enjoyment to my life
| and was a welcome distraction from anything else that may have
| been bothering me at the time.
|
| Mindless video games where you chase dopamine hits and
| programmed stimulus and have no interaction with others isn't
| the same.
| mathgeek wrote:
| I think it's important to note that the author specifies that
| they enjoy the sense of improving rather than just the act of
| playing.
| par wrote:
| Was just thinking this as I've been grinding Elden Ring.
| dimitar wrote:
| All work and no play.. I personally enjoy Warno a lot, I have
| over 1000 ranked game. Eugen games are very engaging I think it
| actually keeps me sane while only using max 40 minutes for a
| session.
| doix wrote:
| I believe this can be more generic, having something you're into
| makes every day enjoyable.
|
| I had that realization a couple of years ago. Happiness for me is
| doing less things I don't enjoy and more of the things I do
| enjoy.
|
| Gaming is nice because there is little effort to start. Just sit
| in front of a PC and play.
|
| Something like surfing requires more effort, getting changed,
| getting to a beach with waves, etc. I hate the setup, but it's
| possible to minimize it by living somewhere warm (no wet suit
| needed) and on the beach so you don't need to drive.
|
| That's how I live my life nowadays. Doing very few things I don't
| enjoy, minimizing the effort required to do the things I do enjoy
| and doing things I actually enjoy instead of things I'm
| indifferent about (like watching garbage Netflix shows).
| hotpotamus wrote:
| I think any therapist will tell you that it's best to have
| something to look forward to; probably small, near-term things
| as well as large, long-term goals. When you don't have anything
| to do, the future looks pretty grim. I've long given up on
| anything like finding some sort of meaning to all this, but I
| do try and find little enjoyable stuff to do.
|
| I think exercise is pretty key and applying the philosophy
| above of doing the type of exercise you like and making it easy
| to do is very helpful.
| Liquix wrote:
| "The three grand essentials of happiness are: Something to
| do, someone to love, and something to hope for."
|
| - Alexander Chalmers
| SamPatt wrote:
| Completely agree about exercise. If you're able to make
| exercise the thing you look forward to every day, it feels
| like a cheat code for life.
| mattgreenrocks wrote:
| This is me with Dota 2 currently. I play against bots every few
| days, and don't obsess over studying the nuances, which I know
| are myriad. Feels like there are 2-3 separate games being played
| simultaneously within the single game that interact in different
| ways.
|
| Accepting that I'm a filthy casual has been lots of fun. I should
| probably use that time to practice guitar, but I like the change
| of pace.
| Nezteb wrote:
| The original site's HTTPS seems to be broken? I just keep
| getting:
|
| "Wu Xiao naURLdesu. puroguramuShe Ding noFan Ying Dai chidearuKe
| Neng Xing gaarimasu. shibarakuShi Jian wooiteZai Du
| akusesuwooShi shikudasai. "
|
| Translating to English gives me:
|
| "Invalid URL. It is possible that the program settings are
| waiting to be reflected. Please try accessing again after a
| while."
|
| HTTP works fine though.
| MarceColl wrote:
| That's Go for me and has been for the past 3-4 years (with
| varying intensity), recently got a Japanese floor goban, and it's
| just a pleasure to sit in front of it to study, understand the
| nuances, experience professional games bith new and old. What a
| beautiful game
| platz wrote:
| you bought a floor goban? how many people can you play with
| IRL?
| MarceColl wrote:
| it's a secondhand one not one of the 10k eur ones, but its
| kaya and pretty thick.
|
| I have 5-6 people that I can play with
| krallja wrote:
| > how many people can you play with IRL?
|
| ...one?
| ssgodderidge wrote:
| Great article. I totally agree.
|
| One of my favorite things to do on HN is to read much older
| article from the authors/posters to see their change over time.
| Major props to the author, as they appear to have significantly
| improved their English over the last 8 yrs:
| http://plumshell.com/2015/03/01/why-nintendo-doesnt-release-...
|
| Writing in another language is always a challenge. I learned
| Hungarian a decade ago, and I still struggle to write "natively."
| Major props!
| haswell wrote:
| I highly recommend reading the book "Flow" if you're looking for
| that thing that makes every day enjoyable.
|
| In addition to exploring why people love games and other high
| skill activities, it discusses the idea that we can learn how to
| turn every day tasks into activities that evoke the same reward
| centers. It doesn't just dive into "people like games", or
| "people like achieving hard things", but it delves into why, and
| tries to explain some of the mechanisms.
|
| It made me start to see daily mundane/boring tasks differently.
| They're things I have to do anyway, so I can choose to approach
| them with a mindset that actually evokes enjoyment. Might as
| well.
|
| Video games used to be my primary outlet. These days, it's
| photography and writing. Over time, cooking/baking have
| transformed from tasks I begrudgingly did to tasks I find deeply
| rewarding. I still play video games and my point isn't to
| disparage them, but the more things in my life that I can move
| into the "things I enjoy" category, the better my life has
| become, on average. And part of that had more to do with changing
| how I engaged with tasks than the specific tasks I was doing.
| Ringz wrote:
| Name the author please!
| haswell wrote:
| Good call. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi.
| AureliusMA wrote:
| << Say my name >>
| Atlas-Marbles wrote:
| https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/27446.Mih_ly_Cs_kszent.
| ..
| nlawalker wrote:
| For anyone currently looking for something that does this for
| you, may I suggest Advent of Code: https://adventofcode.com/ This
| is the first year I've really made time and space to enjoy it,
| and enjoy it I have.
|
| Also - this article ends on such a weird note given the message
| that the rest of it delivers. The author has finally realized how
| valuable it is to have something that gets them going, regardless
| of whether or not it ends up being "useful", but then immediately
| stumbles over the fear of it not lasting and failing to achieve
| greatness in it and sharply concludes with that sentiment.
|
| Perseverance through intermediate-ness into greatness is
| irrelevant to enjoyment. Sure, be great at your hobby if you're
| driven to be great, but if you're looking to maximize enjoyment,
| it's much better to focus on a) embracing intermediateness, and
| b) exposing yourself to new things so you can find the next hobby
| that will light you up.
| qsort wrote:
| Advent of Code is great but it requires you to:
|
| - (a) be available at precisely midnight EST every day for an
| entire month. That would be 6am for me, not really feasible on
| working days for a full month.
|
| - (b) be extremely good at a weird flavor of programming
| competition -- more often than not you don't win at AoC by
| writing better solutions, you just have to crank out a solution
| that you don't too long to type.
|
| I like competitions, I really do, done them my entire life, but
| AoC is just not that interesting to me.
|
| I'm just doing the problems every day ignoring the leaderboard,
| 48/50 stars, this year I'm on track to get 50/50 on Christmas
| day :)
| criddell wrote:
| It doesn't require either of those things. I've been doing it
| this year and I'm on day 17 I think. I probably won't finish
| it until the end of January.
|
| I looked at the leaderboard one day there were a lot of
| people who finished the problem set in 3-4 minutes. I spent
| more time than that reading the problem description.
|
| It's still a lot of fun. Some days I'll solve the problem
| more than once just to try different ideas.
| nlawalker wrote:
| ... there's a _leaderboard_?
|
| Kidding, of course, but that's pretty much how I feel about
| it. I haven't done any real programming in >5 years so I'm
| using it to dust off the cobwebs, get up to speed on C#
| language features and push myself to think about the
| problems functionally/recursively where I can, for fun. The
| freewheeling open-endedness is the best part because you
| can get value/enjoyment/satisfaction out of it a million
| different ways: you could golf the problems; use them to
| learn new languages; pretend you're writing production code
| and make it super clean and organized; do them with a
| partner or group; etc. etc. There's so much value simply in
| interesting, well-defined puzzles with a good scope, and
| the presence of the leaderboard is actually a really good
| example of not letting the need for greatness (especially
| by arbitrary measures!) stand in the way of enjoyment.
|
| I'm in the same boat as you, I started late and I'm on day
| 14 or so with a couple skips that I'll get back to, hope to
| finish in January, and then maybe go back and clean a few
| of them up, reflect on them, write a little bit about them,
| and then start looking at problems from previous years.
| Tomte wrote:
| I've started Anno 1800 yesterday. Lost the campaign twice so far.
| I love it. :-)
|
| It looks gorgeous, even on my not-top-the-line-PC.
|
| This will give me years of fun. After I get bored with the base
| game I will have a dozen DLCs/extensions to try.
|
| This past year it was Civ 5.
| pruetj wrote:
| Thank you for the article. ~7 years ago, I realized I have a
| similar disposition - my best mental state is when I'm in a state
| of learning and being challenged. The struggle I've run into is
| when I look back and consider what "good" that thing I've been
| learning about has produced.
|
| For instance, I too love video games and have found immense
| enjoyment in them for many, many years but if I add up all my
| play logs and realize I've spent something like 5-10% of my life
| playing video games, it begs the question if that time could have
| been better spent? Has that really helped anyone, myself
| included? Has it made the world a better place in any way?
|
| Lately, I've uninstalled all games and am seeking hobbies that
| still challenge me but also can bring joy to others. To list a
| couple: Cooking - An art really but also quite a bit of science
| involved. Chiefly though, food brings people together and there
| is nothing quite like feeding people with your very own creation
| and hard work. DIY - DIY helps with my engineering itch, saves a
| lot of money for the family, and also can greatly benefit others
| who might otherwise not be able to afford something they really
| do need.
|
| I have nothing against video games, I've played far more than
| most my age. I really just wonder when it comes to hobbies, is
| maximum satisfaction achieved when not only you satisfy your own
| needs but are also able to add to others' lives? FWIW, this can
| be achieved in video games through friendships and community
| formed... I'm just not good at making that an important part of
| why I'd play a video game.
| zemvpferreira wrote:
| I find a lot of comfort in the idea of unintended consequences.
| I spent the majority of my youth playing games: CounterStrike,
| Magic: The Gathering, D&D. I paid a lot more attention to
| useless hobbies than to school.
|
| In hindsight, I attribute my strongest mental skills to all
| that gaming. Abstract reasoning, strategic/tactical thinking,
| english fluency...things that separated me completely from my
| peers once I began my career.
|
| Life's long and you never know. If you enjoy cooking, sure, it
| stacks with a lot of other benefits. I think that's a good
| framework to keep in mind. But there's no reason to believe
| nothing good can ever come from some hours spent on Call of
| Duty. Heck, if you enjoy them that's enough good gotten.
| pruetj wrote:
| Totally agree, some of my best friends today were found
| through Halo/dota/RuneScape/Dark Age of Camelot/etc. These
| are not regrets I have - just more of a point forward
| perspective in what I do with my time now.
|
| I have a family of my own now so that has played no small
| part in shifting my perspective.
| dev_tty01 wrote:
| Reminds me of a favorite quote:
|
| "The best thing for being sad," replied Merlin, beginning to
| puff and blow, "is to learn something. That's the only thing
| that never fails. ... There is only one thing for it then -- to
| learn. Learn why the world wags and what wags it. That is the
| only thing which the mind can never exhaust, never alienate,
| never be tortured by, never fear or distrust, and never dream
| of regretting. Learning is the only thing for you. Look what a
| lot of things there are to learn."
|
| -- T.H. White, The Once and Future King
| GuB-42 wrote:
| Mahjong ?
|
| I tend to associate mahjong with gambling and smoke filled
| illegal parlors. The Asian counterpart of poker as it is played
| in western stories.
|
| Probably a stereotype. Just as poker usually isn't played in
| saloons with revolvers on the table nowadays, but I wonder what
| kind of reputation it has, and if the money aspect is as
| prevalent as it is in poker.
| csa wrote:
| The illegal parlors exist, just like illegal private poker
| games exist in the US.
|
| I'm not sure about numbers, but I know many people in Japan who
| play mahjong with community friends just like I know many
| people in the US who have poker home games.
|
| I have played both games in the casual community games, and
| they are generally very friendly even though money is involved.
| Typically, the amount wagered is "in the budget", skill sets
| are usually in the same neighborhood, and ringers either self-
| moderate their winnings (this is me in poker and a friend of
| mine in mahjong) or get uninvited.
| markisus wrote:
| The conclusion seems to contradict the thesis.
|
| > The most enjoyable time is when you feel yourself growing, but
| the real test is whether you can persevere when you hit that wall
| or if you'll lose interest and give up.
|
| Why does it matter if you persevere or not as long as you had
| fun?
| redcobra762 wrote:
| Pleasure vs. satisfaction. Pleasure is enjoying the moment, and
| satisfaction is enjoying remembering the moment. Satisfaction
| (almost definitionally) lasts longer, and importantly doesn't
| even require in-the-moment pleasure!
| bloopernova wrote:
| My 2015 PC started dying, requiring BIOS resets and other
| weirdness like suddenly not outputting basic VGA graphics.
|
| So I finally upgraded to an AMD 7800X3D, nvidia 4070 12GB, 64GB
| DDR5-6400 RAM.
|
| All to play Factorio! :D
|
| Apart from a strange error where Linux will crash if I have 2
| DIMMs in the motherboard, it's been a great upgrade. (I'm going
| to submit bug reports to Fedora, but I'm assuming some combo of
| the MSI B650 motherboard, CPU, and memory are contributing to the
| error. Memtest says the memory modules are OK)
|
| Now I have a PC that can handle the modded-Factorio huge railway
| city block maps I like to play. Each block of space is surrounded
| by 4 lanes of railway, with interchanges. It's really nice to
| organize the refining and production into specific tasks, like
| "deliver lead ore, process it into lead oxide, combine that with
| carbon blocks to make lead ingots". Now the distribution method
| is via railway station so it's far more flexible than simple
| conveyor belt outputs. Loads of fun! And very complex too, but
| that's half the fun. Needing "blue science" which needs circuit
| boards, which need solder, which needs lead and tin ingots, etc
| etc. I can lose hours of time to this, moderated only by my back
| hurting and making me take breaks.
|
| A nice bonus is that my new PC is capable of running smaller LLMs
| locally, so I can mess around with learning the new hotness
| technology. Plus new toys are always fun.
| zoklet-enjoyer wrote:
| When I saw the specs my thoughts immediately went to local
| LLMs, then I got to the last paragraph. I was messing around
| with Mistral 7b the other day when it was posted on here and
| have been considering upgrading my PC so I can run LLMs faster.
| asmor wrote:
| The Zen 4 memory controller only _sometimes_ is binned high
| enough to be stable at 6400. It 's likely that linux just loads
| the memory better out of the box. I had to dial back my 7800
| X3D to 6000 after rare but consistent crashes.
|
| You can try OCCT to check if your memory overclock (even with
| Expo and especially with XMP, those are overclocks) is stable.
|
| You probably have Hynix memory (check your 4 main timings and
| XMP/EXPO advertised speed) - if you do, these are very save
| timings you can do that'd probably make up for going down to
| 6000: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dlYxmRcdLVw
| bloopernova wrote:
| Thank you, I will check the link out and you've given me some
| good research to chase.
| hyperthesis wrote:
| > once they hit a certain wall, growth slows down drastically.
|
| Deliberate practice addresses these plateaus. I think you need to
| constrict your focus, zoom in, change the scale so the slowing of
| progress doesn't feel slow. If you can accept that, it can be
| just as satisfying. A great coach/mentor can help here [but how
| can you evaluate them?] As the frontier of your knowledge
| expands, there's more of it.
|
| funfact: Usain Bolt hit a plateau as a teenager, but got a new
| coach who addressed a congenital spine defect with specific
| strengthening exercises, and to train _less_ (he was
| overtraining).
| finnh wrote:
| overtraining is such a trap! My college crew program had
| something like 11 workouts per week - one on the water, at 5am,
| and one in the gym at 4pm, every weekday, plus a "big one" on
| Saturdays. Very little tapering before big races.
|
| That's simply too much, especially for 18 year olds...
| trash_cat wrote:
| What a refreshing and positive perspective on the matter. I
| couldn't agree more.
| Waterluvian wrote:
| I'm struggling in the worst way to get into any game at all. I
| have free time. I don't feel guilt being "unproductive" with that
| time. But nothing feels motivating to continue with.
|
| In my teens and 20s it felt amazing to finish homework and have a
| late night ahead of me to really sink my teeth into an RPG or
| something. But for the past decade that magic is just gone.
|
| I don't want to declare "I've grown and changed and maybe gaming
| just isn't my thing" because I badly want it to be.
| sarks_nz wrote:
| I just got "Slay the Spire", a deck-building, casual, rogue-
| like and it's awesome. Can play a little or a lot at a sitting
| :-)
| vosper wrote:
| Slay the Spire is awesome, addictive, and can be played for 5
| minutes or 5 hours - great recommendation!
|
| With very limited gaming time available I've been searching
| for other games like that with limited success, apart from
| Hitman Go, FTL, and Into the Beach. But none of them scratch
| the itch quite as well.
| bobnamob wrote:
| Give "Hades" a shot. Isometric rogue-lite, once you're
| comfortable with the game, a "run" is <30 mins (<15 mins
| once you're very comfortable).
| wincy wrote:
| I've stopped playing multiplayer games with strangers. I play
| tabletop RPGs (online, on a virtual tabletop) on Tuesday nights
| for 3-4 hours with some friends, and it's an absolute blast.
|
| Even though the stories we tell are goofy and not worthy of a
| pulp fiction novel, it feels like actual play and engages a
| part of my mind that's seldom used anymore. It's not often a
| video game can capture a fraction of the fun we have paving our
| own crazy story. Baldur's Gate 3 is the closest I've seen in
| awhile.
| watwut wrote:
| > I don't want to declare "I've grown and changed and maybe
| gaming just isn't my thing" because I badly want it to be.
|
| Games are not your thing, whether be sure of being grown up or
| so etching else. And there is no intrinsic value of gaming
| unless you like it a lot. Forcing yourself into it makes zero
| sense.
|
| Maybe, just maybe, it makes sense to try different things and
| chances are one of them will be it.
| hiddencost wrote:
| https://zunil.itch.io/mosaic
|
| https://zunil.itch.io/magpie
|
| You're welcome // sorry.
| BeetleB wrote:
| I grew up playing a lot of computer games (PC). A lot of them. It
| mostly stopped once I went to university - for the following
| decade I played only newer versions of games I was familiar with
| (e.g. newer Civilization, newer Command and Conquer, etc). And
| even that was the once-a-year binge - not continual. Then I
| stopped altogether.
|
| There were multiple reasons I slowed down. I was interested in my
| academics. I looked back at all the time I had played pre-
| university and (rationally) lamented the time lost. The genre I
| liked had died (adventure games), and I really didn't like 1st
| person shooters. And I didn't want to deal with the headache of
| upgrading my PC every 2 years just to play a game. Also, I
| switched to Linux, which didn't help.
|
| I bought a PS3 in 2010, but it was only for Blu-Ray and
| streaming. Then in around 2016, on a whim, I decided to check out
| a game from the library. I picked _The Walking Dead_ (Telltale
| version).
|
| I loved it. I started checking out other games. Someone bought me
| an Xbox One as a gift. But this all lasted a few months before I
| stopped playing again.
|
| Finally, around 18 months ago, I felt guilty that I had spent
| $100 on games back in 2016 when I got the Xbox (some big sale, so
| quite a few games), but never played them. So I told myself I'll
| try a few.
|
| The first one I played was _Life is Strange_. Loved it. Then
| _Oxenfree_. Loved it. It 's been 18 months and I haven't stopped
| playing.
|
| Before, I'd spend 30-60 minutes per day watching some TV show.
| I've merely substituted that time with gaming. And it is so, so
| much more rewarding than watching a TV show - even a great show.
| It's counterintuitive, but I find it both relaxes me and
| invigorates me at the same time in a way a good show on TV
| wouldn't (and I love good stories). With TV, you're just staring.
| With games, you're actively thinking. It's more dynamic. You make
| decisions. You're in control. And games can have great
| storytelling.
|
| I remember times in my life where my work was really stressful.
| Looking back, I wish I had played games back then.
|
| The funny thing is, while I had earlier lamented all the time in
| my youth spent playing games, when I look back now I have only
| positive feelings. I still have good memories of certain games -
| heck even certain achievements in games, from 30 years ago. That
| time wasn't wasted.
|
| I always find it amusing when someone belittles gamers as losers,
| but then they go watch TV.
| ernestrc wrote:
| Great article! I had deep, long-lasting obsessions with games
| growing up until I discovered programming. For me, it's not so
| much about the challenge anymore; it's about building stuff. Once
| I discovered programming, games felt like very small and limiting
| sandboxes. If I played a game for 10 hours a day, I would not be
| able to convince myself that it's okay for me and those around
| me. However, since programming is lucrative and comes with a pat
| in the back, I struggle to find a good work-life balance still to
| this day.
| slowhadoken wrote:
| It's the same with a good book, album, tv show, and movie.
| NoboruWataya wrote:
| Yes, a good book makes all the difference to me. Particularly
| around bedtime - I'm very much a night owl and usually struggle
| to get to bed on time but the prospect of reading a bit of a
| good book before going to sleep is good motivation.
| ohnoesjmr wrote:
| I always have some game to play. Usually it's some multiplayer
| FPS shooter and doesn't require long term commitment or
| investment (CsGo2, Apex Legends, 20min matches). I'm in my mid
| 30s, but I'm still quite good at those games, so I have some
| passion for them, but I mostly play them as a method to
| disconnect my mind from work. When I'm not coding much at work,
| doing some ops stuff or whatever etc, games get replaced by
| coding at home, because it's just like wanting to go to a
| bathroom, it has to come out at some point. I sometimes even
| combine the two, recently started RE'ing or modding my childhood
| games, which is quite awesome as I picked up new skills along the
| way.
|
| My other half on the other hand, has no such interests, and
| thinks that I'm wasting my life away, while sitting on the couch
| watching netflix.
| amjnsx wrote:
| This article speaks to me a lot. I played FF7 Remake when it
| released on PS+ in '21 thinking I didn't enjoy JRPG's.
|
| From there i played the entire collection - the ps1 version,
| crisis core, advent children, and then remake again.
|
| Those months were fantastic - either playing, listening to the
| soundtrack, thinking about materia combinations. And it's likely
| to consume another 3 months of my life when Rebirth releases.
| tarruda wrote:
| FF VI and Chrono Trigger (both SNES) are two gems which I would
| definitely replay if I had the time.
|
| It is easy to get lost the pretty graphics of modern games, but
| to me well written story and characters are the best part of
| JRPGs
| PsylentKnight wrote:
| I really enjoyed Fire Emblem: Three Houses (Nintendo Switch)
| this year.
|
| The story is alright, but the characters are well-written and
| I enjoyed the tactical gameplay more than the typical turn-
| based RPG fare.
| orenlindsey wrote:
| Games (especially video games) can be extremely distracting from
| doing the things you need to do. I'm in school and so I have to
| work hard to avoid these things because I will not do the work I
| need to do if I start playing a video game.
|
| Maybe I just need more self-control, but I prefer non-games as
| hobbies. Programming, listening to music and podcasts, etc.
| low_tech_love wrote:
| Everyone is different. I'm really happy you can look at
| yourself critically like that and realize your own limitations,
| then work around them. To be honest your comment is the real
| takeaway here for me (the article was basically "good things
| are good" and felt quite empty/meaningless).
| vibrolax wrote:
| I've wanted to play games since Atari Pong came out. But I've
| never owned a console, and haven't owned a computer with a
| discrete GPU since 2005. Twenty years ago, I satisfied my urge to
| game by playing Unreal Tournament, Quake, etc. demos. More
| recently, I'd spend an hour a week watching other people play
| games on YouTube, to see if I was missing anything.
|
| This year, the snake has entered my garden in the form of an RTX
| 3060 that I bought for AI and media production applications.
|
| My wife has bought me a flight stick for Christmas, so I can play
| DCS myself, instead of watching other people's videos.
|
| I worked so hard avoiding escapist leisure in favor of physical
| exercise and 'maker' hobbies that it's difficult to switch off
| the discipline, and go have some escapist fun.
|
| I'm retired and have all the resources needed to indulge in pure
| fun. I'm gonna take advantage of the opportunity.
| ciuncan wrote:
| For me it became incredibly hard to find a game to get hooked on.
| Most recently Path of Exile was it, one of the very few games
| (flight sims, Gwent and Slay the Spire) that I have more than 100
| hours of game play. And indeed, when I find such a game, looking
| forward to it was a great motivation throughout the day.
| Currently my only hope is with PoE2, crossing fingers for it.
| hasty_pudding wrote:
| I honestly think that smart people get bored by the same-ness of
| every day qnd having a fantasy of some sort to slip into really
| helps.
| hasty_pudding wrote:
| Fantasy and sci fi books have the same effect for me.
|
| Im in the middle of "The Fisherman" and cant wait to get back to
| it everyday.
|
| I honestly think that smart people get bored by the same-ness of
| every day qnd having a fantasy of some sort to slip into really
| helps.
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