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> I’m never bored, there’s too many rabbit holes and too much work to do It is a temporary condition. At some point on thousandth rabbit hole you'll feel yours
by ordu 2y ago
> I’m never bored, there’s too many rabbit holes and too much work to do
It is a temporary condition. At some point on thousandth rabbit hole you'll feel yourself bored, and decide not to dive deeper, because what is the point. Probably you will be able to use rabbit holes as a means to fight boredom for some time afterwards, but it would be harder and harder with time passed.
Many people I know felt something like that with video games. Video games were interesting. Then they became not so interesting. And then people just lost the point of playing video games. My brother was constantly upgrading his PC to play newest titles. Now he is still upgrading his PC, because it makes him feel happy, but he doesn't play anymore. I never upgraded my PC to play a game, I played those that could run on the hardware I had. Now I don't play games either. I try sometimes to play to fight boredom, but it doesn't work, it is more boring to play now than not to play.
> Remove all social media, stop reading the news, get on top of your finances, keep a small but significantly valued group of friends, have a vision for your life
You know, it is easier to learn how to deal with boredom than to achieve all this points. Some people never manage to have friends or to get on top of their finances.
All these things is what maybe makes you immune to boredom. It doesn't mean it will help others: people are wonderfully different. But the worse: probably all these things have nothing to do with your lack of boredom. What you witness is a correlation, it doesn't have to be a causation, it can even be a spurious correlation.
- HPsquared 2y agoI lost interest in video games all of a sudden when I saw how they were made, and how all those little design elements were made to keep the player's interest and attention. I was like "oh, I'm being manipulated constantly when playing this". Really put me off, like "seeing how sausages are made".
- purple-leafy 2y agoThat’s a fair reaction to seeing how the sausages are made. I wonder what will happen to the human condition when the great questions are finally answered. How did we get here, how did the universe come to be, are there aliens ?
- phito 2y agoExactly the same, I lost all interest in video games when realized I was just moving numbers in a database
- cableshaft 2y agoThis is one reason why I never really got into microtransactions. Oh, you want me to pay you money just so you can toggle a 0 to a 1 in a database to signify me being able to use a particular hat in-game? No thanks. I do still enjoy making numbers go up when I don't have to pay anything beyond an initial purchase, though (i.e. I still like playing games)
- HPsquared 2y ago"Real money" is also like this, bank balances etc.
- phito 2y agoIndeed but money can be exchanged for goods and services. My minecraft inventory, not so much.
- cableshaft 2y agoPeople are manipulated all the time in attempts to keep interest and attention, by just about everything they consume. Conversations with others, news articles and books that they read, music and podcasts they listen to. I imagine you can find it in just about anything in modern society if you look hard enough for it.