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This is a much more compelling argument than the article's.
by gmfawcett 5y ago
This is a much more compelling argument than the article's.
- ASalazarMX 5y agoThis is my impression as well. Old people who have settled in a routine can tell what year and month it is, but probably have a harder time telling the day or weekday. For them, all days are weekends. You don't even need to be old to feel this. I've had vacations where I mostly played JRPGs, and those vacations certainly felt considerably shorter.
- cassianoleal 5y agoJRPGs, as well as the Civ games, are time compressors. You blink and 5 hours have passed.
- contingencies 5y agoCommuting / driving.
- lsaferite 5y agoGames like factorio must be 'super compressors'.
- eafkuor 5y agoGod, really? I can't take those for more than 1h at a time usually. Except Chrono Trigger I guess. Any recommendations?
- cassianoleal 5y agoJRPGs? The Persona series is quite interesting, good story telling; Xenoblade Chronicles 1 and 2 are both very good; NieR Automata is a great action RPG set in a dystopic future; the old school Zeldas, the original Phantasy Star... I admit, they're all an acquired taste in many ways but once you get into it and stop minding the complexity in some of them, they can suck you in and move you out of time.
- ASalazarMX 5y agoChrono Trigger is an excellent game! Maybe Chrono Cross (PS1) if you want to play a sequel. Other classics are Dragon Warrior IV for the NES, and Phantasy star IV for the Sega Genesis. No need to play the previous ones. My other recommendation is using an emulator to give you unlimited money and experience. The gameplay is ruined, but the storytelling is more fluid, and you'll save many hours.
- pugworthy 5y agoYou might correct that to "people who don't work" instead of "old people".
- ASalazarMX 5y agoNot necessarily. People who don't work aren't necessarily living boring lives.
- pugworthy 5y agoJust pointing out a bit of inadvertent ageism. And I definitely wasn't implying they live boring lives. My spouse for example doesn't work, and in fact is quite busy with an impressive garden landscape. She doesn't always know what day it is, because it doesn't usually matter.
- ASalazarMX 5y agoI think I was unintentionally ageist, sorry. I'm fifty myself, it wasn't deliberate. Also, a routine doesn't necessarily gets boring, you're right. I was thinking of a university friend of mine. He didn't work, only studied for finals, and had a very interesting life with little money. Somehow he didn't flunk.
- pugworthy 5y agoI'm 60. I'm learning to be sensitive about it, while also being aware that there are those that are younger who have insights I don't. It's a partnership, and it works better when one tries to understand that roles evolve over time - for one's self and for others. Also understand that stereotypes of age (and many other things) are not a great way to go through life.
- seoulmetro 5y agoYou weren't being "ageist". It's normal to assume that old people live at home and aren't out doing many things. It's also normal to assume that 16 year olds get acne. Please don't let someone censor you for acting rationally.
- belltaco 5y agoBoth can be true in their own way though.
- itsdsmurrell 5y agoYes, I agree, the article is very bad and I don't know how it got upvoted so highly here.
- d23 5y agoThis is more intuitive, but I don't know that it makes it more compelling for me. I find the article's hypothesis a bit more interesting, since it's not exactly what one would expect.
- lathiat 5y agoI've seen a different explanation. When you are 10 years old, a year of your life is 1/10th of your life. Relatively, it's a large portion. When you are 50 years old, a year of your life is a much smaller 1/50th portion of total memory, experiences, etc.