whenever i find a game that i actually want to keep playing i give a quick prayer to the gods, thanking them for their mercy

go figure that game was The Long Dark this time, only thing more violently autistic than a realistic canadian survival game would be a railway planning ga- sigh

Brain hack: Go stare at a wall for 5-10 minutes and try again, repeat until the game/activity seems fun. Your brain will start to crave any stimulation when faced with unbearable boredom.

Note: This may cause emotions you were suppressing to surface in the absence of stimulation, which will likely be uncomfortable, but also might be the reason you were struggling to enjoy things in the first place.

This exact thing happened 3 times in a row to me yesterday

Load game… Turns out there are updates, connect to the internet, wait for it to update, then get to loading screen and want to play something else.

I do this thing, where I’ll play a game for 2-5 minutes and then I’ll stop again.

You can bet your ass that I only play games that load and close almost instantly. Well, and basically only games that I’m already familiar with.

I hate it and how much joy it saps out of my life 😭

I feel singled out.

I’m interested in playing. I am just so fucking exhausted from all my jobs and the loading screen is where I go through all the stages of grief until I accept i am to tired to do the one thing that brings me joy in life.

Then I go to bed and my daily torture session begin anew.

This is me, except for spending an hour getting the thing running properly and graphics settings tweaked properly just to play 10 minutes and never touch it again. Sometimes I wonder if I actually just enjoy configuring games.

I mostly play on the Xbox, not very often. so when I do, it’s the update game. I play update for a few minutes, get bored then go do something else. By the time I finish there’s no more time to play and I forget until a couple months when I only get to play update again.

Looks like you could use an NVMe SSD, so loads don’t take 2 minutes.

I feel like this also works for depression. I will go through half my library doing this, just to turn it off because there’s no desire for anything.

The real reason I take my meds to be honest

I go through that but I stay in the menu tweaking the settings until it’s perfect. Then I start the game mess with the settings again only to lose interest in actually playing it.

At my age, I’ll pick a game that doesn’t require several hours of unfun stuff to get to the fun stuff (endless tutorials, churning, unfun mechanics, git-gud, etc…)

If I want to dedicate lots of times to learn something, I’ll pick any of the thousands of half-done projects and abandoned hobbies spread around my home.