It makes me more productive in my life. Like, last night, I was like “What should I do? Netflix has nothing good on, Reddit discussions are shit, video games aren’t fun anymore… I guess I could clean my apartment?” And now my apartment is clean.
It’s also gotten me to work on improving on stuff I actually enjoy instead of wasting my life.
How did you manage to not want to play videogames? I can sink 999⁹ hours into a game like Factorio or like FF14 let alone the hours I’ll spend on a game that isn’t even fun
it has forced me to play games that have been gathering dust in my steam library for like a decade
by the way, axiom verge and hyper light drifter? bangers
I feel this so much! It feels like they’ve turned entertainment into this great big hamster wheel of hyper-stimulation, but now its gone so fast that axel broke and it just doesn’t work anymore. Like so much of what comes out now is actively unappealing to me and its given me enough of a reprieve to actually start building positive replacements for my hyper-consumption, hyper-stimulation routines.
In my old age, I’ve become a lot more accepting of saying “fuck this, I’m bored” and stopping something. This has been beneficial. It has unfortunately been happening a lot more lately than it did even 5 years ago.
As a result, I’ve been doing a lot more creative things. I’ve been writing music again for the first time since high school, I’m writing a short story, and I’m developing a lil video game.
I think more people should do lil creative things. Things that aren’t for mass appeal. Things that might have 3 fans at best. That shit is cool. I love that shit. Yeah, I’m drunk at 2:45pm on a Saturday, don’t judge me. Accidentally got too drunk working on a song.
