I do it because most of the time I literally have nothing else to do due to my current situation. It’s either play the ps5, pc, or watch TV. There’s literally nothing else for me to do other than work which is the reason why I game so much. And, on the other hand, I do it to escape my mundane life. For example, in ff7 I’m part of a group looking to save the world from evil corporations. In Starfield I’m a space explorer discovering new things and seeing g new sights and people. In real life, I sit, draw, and write all day showing people going on adventures and doing amazing things. Honestly, if my current situation was better, I’d be traveling, doing cool stuff with friends, seeing the world. I wouldn’t game so much. But until things change I’m stuck in an endless loop.
For me, excessive self aggrandizing stories are unbearable. Everybody has a story about themselves where they are the hero, or did the amazing thing. That’s perfectly fine, and in reasonable doses is interesting to listen to.
However that guy who turns every and any conversion into a story about themselves strains both believability and interest beyond my breaking point.
The gf’s father is like this. Every visit is a story of some famous or rich person/people he spent the day with as a buddy not an employee of, or the more common one of his outage and how he one upped someone or put a group of people in their place, at least in his story.
Then he wonders why his son doesn’t want to deal with him, while I see his adult son being a outrage clone of him in a way with stories of injustices against him. His rage is simmering as he tells the stories about every employer, coworker, supervisor, or government agency that is wrong or out to get him. Lately it’s been how the school teachers are plain wrong when it comes to how much of a pain his son is becoming and how his lectures of these elementary teachers is going.
In relation miss my late father’s stories of how much the little town I grew up had changed since my last visit which was often the same stories or my other family members do nothing stories that never change either. The energy level of that is pretty low looking back now…
I stopped playing them. I used to do it for many hours/week but just quit cold turkey a year ago. There are more interesting things to do with a computer.
Weed, alcohol, other drugs and Bar stories. I do not partake, but due to it being common amung my peers it is hard to avoid. To them that thing they experienced at that one bar 4 weeks ago is the funniest thing, but I cannot relate at all and its kinda frustrating because I do not intend to partake in such activities just to keep up socially. Same with smoke breaks.
I seem to get the version on how wasted they got and sick they were afterwards. It’s like they unlock new achievement badges each weekend by how much they throw up the next day.
I’m left thinking you’re getting into your late 30s or 40s now. This isn’t your teens and early 20s anymore.
I’ve enjoyed when seeing some of these hard partiers mature and nope out now after a few years. But honestly being a alcoholic seems to the baseline starting place for many when it comes to socializing.
I know I’m a drag for them when I’m at a nice hotel and I’m not joining in with a cooler bag full of beers or hard stuff to get the party started before going to dinner. The gf is younger and a little frustrated I’m just not interested in that anymore or was I ever really.
She’s coming to terms with her inability to not be sick after a night of drinking as she gets older now too. Being health conscious she’s coming to the realization that alcohol consumption is perhaps not the best thing for her long term either based on the health of her long term friends still trying to keep up with being wasted every weekend.
For me it’s typically something I can enjoy absent mindedly.
It could be an element of a game I can enjoy without thinking like a solid soundtrack or visuals but not feeling like “losing” is a lose is another thing.
I like being able to shut my brain off and that typically means a lack of story but still having some form of progression.
I don’t think technical innovations relating to realism and multiplayer are essential. One of my favorite games is Hotline Miami which features pixel graphics and while shooters like Call of Duty do have a satisfying gameplay loop I feel like I hit a wall with progression eventually.
Multiplayer and VR games can also require some extra setup which is a hurdle for a game being addictive to me.
Yeah, that sounds fine to me. I think the movie Dogma spells that position out pretty well: organized beliefs lead to all kinds of messy stuff, it’s better to just have ideas.
And personally I think humans seem to be wired to want religion. I think it stems from how we’re social creatures and we just desperately want to be part of something. And some of the most pervading religions have been the ones that include a father figure in their belief structure; I don’t think that’s a coincidence either, I think nearly everyone wants someone to follow, someone to tell them what to do, and parents don’t last forever.
All that is to say, religion or at least spirituality seems to be something people naturally yearn for. And given that, there’s no shame in feeling that yearning.
Edibles don’t work well for me personally so I’d recommend a vaporizer + cbd flower. I’ve found a couple that chill me right out, but when I’m on the right meds I don’t need it at all.
Besides funding you already have enough infighting, power mods, and admins shaping content according to political belief.
So tell years fun now everyone is going to defed against most instances and it’ll be even more of a pain in the ass to see content and it’s going to continue to get reposted across the instances you do interact with.
So like, lemmy will be here but it’s going to end up more like a traditional forum than interconnected communities.
I disagree, because with a forum, generally it was just one server right to begin with? It’s just a little bit different then the fediverse in that forums didn’t federate at all. Time will tell what will happen to the fediverse. I would pay close attention to Mastodon as it has the most users off all federated services. Whatever happens to to it are signs, look out for them
The witch from the witches house game. I won’t spoil it here but the second ending is really hearty breaking and cruel, I recommend you watch a playthrough of the game.
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