Tbh, the main enjoyment I get from skyrim is installing it every few years and screwing around with mods to get the perfect setup. Then once I actually start playing I quickly bored and stop.
In general, it's easier to get dopamine from the anticipation of a game, actually enjoying the game requires some work and a habit. Sometimes it's just too much, especially if you're feeling a bit burnt out from exams.
Is matrix not more like chat channels? I'm lookint for something more like a forum / threaded conversations. Do you think it supports that sort of thing?
Mid 40s, and I don't think colds and stuff have changed much. But it's a little hard to tell as I'm almost always floored by those sorts of things. When I was younger I'd just stay in bed all day, now I have shit that needs done so I have to soldier through. So if anything I've become more functional when sick, even if it feels just as awful.
But for sprains and pains, it's much worse. Any sort of overuse or careless maneuver can lead to weeks of issues. Whether that's specifically age, or just decreasing physical strength and flexibility (I'm very phsycially active, but never do sports or fitness or stretching) is uncertain.
This is exactly it. And the reality is worse, because it's not even just "get the coffee out the cupboard", it sesrch for ten minutes for the coffee in your mess of a kitchen, eventually finding an empty packet, so you get out a new packet but have to wash the scissors to open it, then when you can't find a a clip for the packet you decide to empty it into a old tin only to realise the tin was already full cause you did the same thing yesterday.
As a fan of teen comedies, I do think about this. If everyone's going to look 25 and talk in this mature way, why is it even set in a high-school? The two factors I see are:
Once upon a time : by setting a story in a non-realistic / mythic setting, it's easier to enter into the fiction of it. For adults, it has a nostalgia for a time before responsibilities when everything was possible, but that would be ruined if you had to face up to how akward and useless most teens really are. And for kids these 'teens' who look perfect and always know what to say are wish fulfillment. Everyone knows it's not really like high-school, but peasants and the aristocracy knew that knights were nothing like those dipicted in chavalric ballads, but they both like to imagine that they were for different reasons.
Bottle episode : High school is a super convient writing drvixe, because you have these characters who have freedom and independence enough to move the story forward, but it's also super easy to restrict any option that makes things difficult. There's no need to worry about too many social circles, or why the characters don't just do x or y. If you want a group of friends, who basically only interact with each other, it's plausible enough. Even in college that's harder to do, unless it's a very small, exclusive group (like The Secret History) and even then it feels intentionally insular and incestuous in a way that a high-school clique doesn't.
All the time. I sometimes read my phone, sometimes play games, often I'm doing chores (cooking, cleaning etc). Pretty much the only time I watch something 100% is if I go to the cinema, but if I'm at home I can't resist the distractions.
It also influences what I watch. I definitely prefer shows and films that don't require constant attention, so subtitles or minimal dialogue are not ideal. If it's a film that I really want to try and engage with as much as possible, I watch it first thing in the morning, as I'm still waking up. When my brain is still sluggish, just drinking a pot of coffee is enough to keep me busy while I watch. (and yeah, I've got adhd...)
I'm not defending corporate culture, and it's bullshit. But if you're in a job that requires thinking, not just physical labour, there is a fair amount of research that's shows that people do significantly better work when they have intrinsic motivations than extrinsic (like money).
Even if you're doing a job you would quite today if you didn't need the money, there's probably a bunch of intrinsic motivations that are there, even if they're small compared to "need cash". Maybe you care about your teammates and don't want to let them down (at least that one guy, the rest are dicks), maybe you have a sense of pride in your competence and don't want to produce shit (pity that management get in the way most of the time) , maybe you want the company do be successful (because otherwise you'd have to get naothe job).
If you find genuine motivations, even if you have to be circumspect in how you express them, it'll be easier for your bosses to trust you. If someone is honestly and openly saying they're only here for money, then I can infer that they will do the least possible work that won't get them fired. So I'll need to constantly be supervising them and checking their work because if I don't they'll cut corners and ruin everything. I can't let the talk to clients or even other staff because they could be hugely negative about the company and cause problems. It's just not worth it. From the c-suite perspective, they know that everyone saying how important work is and how much they believe in the company are full of shit.
I guess it depends how niche vs on-topic the post is for the community you're posting in. But in general, I don't think I'm going to bothered by seeing the same issue coming up every few months. And if you can find different aspects of o focus on, more frequent could also be fine if it's right for the community. Half of c/android is just some variation on "Google sucks / hates it's users / is destroying privacy", which is fine cause it's true and there's lots of indvidual news items.
It's basically the opposite of addictive. Addictive stuff is easy, because it quickly becomes a "need" not just something you theoretically want to do but can't really be bothered right now.
Even 'fun' stuff like TV shows, I can 'want' to catch up on shows, or finish the series I was loving, but if its down to choosing and making myself get round to it, I won't. But when suddenly I get a hyper focus on some old show and I binge forty episodes in a weekend it's 'easy'. What's hard is stopping, which I guess means I'm kinda in addict mode (until I overdo it and get board and abandon the watchthrough a few episodes from the end).
It's the sort of thing I'd agree to because I hate commutes and that sort of inefficency. But it's also probably a bad idea. It's a lot of stress on a relationship, also it gives weird incentives - what if she no longer likes your son but wants to keep dating him to avoid having to get up early. That's not fair on either of them.
If you do it, would it be an option to offer that she stays a couple of nights each week, on a trial basis? That way she still gets to avoid some commutes, but it's obviously temporary and easier to back out of for everyone. If there's any issues you can not invite her back without having to evict a teenager.
Tbh, the main enjoyment I get from skyrim is installing it every few years and screwing around with mods to get the perfect setup. Then once I actually start playing I quickly bored and stop.
In general, it's easier to get dopamine from the anticipation of a game, actually enjoying the game requires some work and a habit. Sometimes it's just too much, especially if you're feeling a bit burnt out from exams.