Most of games these days. After a couple hours I feel like I was doing chores, not playing game and have fun.
An oh dear, I DON’T CARE ABOUT YOUR LORE. Just let me start playing the stupid game, no need for a giant cinematic.
“Oops! It’s all fetch-quests!!”
Or maybe it’s just me. I’m getting old now and doesn’t have infinite free time to do mundane virtual chores anymore. I got 1-2 hours of free time per day, if I’m lucky and the kid won’t tear up the house.
It’s a shame, one of my favorites was Elite Dangerous. I love explore the universe in peace. But to be able to do so would require months of constant and repetitive grinding for material to upgrade the ship.
Oh no, it’s definitely not just you.
I feel like the overall design of games has been lazy lately and they’ve just filled them up with mundane chores to pad the completion time.
No one’s going to pay $70 for a game if they know there’s only 2 hours worth of story to play through.And I deeply loved elite dangerous but it was definitely just space trucking simulator, I feel like frontier really messed up whenever they pushed all their resources to whatever idle Sim game they were designing that flopped.
Indie > AAA
Plenty of things, college being the biggest. But, I’ve gotten to the point where I’m able to see benefits in just about everything I’ve done in my life.
Agreed. I’m sad I wasted time and money on a failed attempt to get a degree, but I appreciate the people I met and the experiences I had.
Looks at everything. Looks at the sun expanding. Looks back at everything.
Yes, I do believe so
looks at his comment count
I thought I had a problem…
Kolanaki sacrificing himself so we can feel a little better about ourselves o7
Hmm…
And here I thought you were the biggest commenter here. That person is beating you ten-fold.
Picard does have 3.5K on their other account
This is the smaller of my 2 accounts right now, but yeah, I definitely don’t comment at the same rate as I make posts. Kolanaki is one of the power-commenters that see in my inbox multiple times per day.
Picard Maneuver posts main topic content, which is probably more important. Can’t comment if there’s nothing to comment on 🤷🏻♂️
Did you ever get a chance to check your Lemmy “karma” before the 0.19 update removed it? I bet you’re way up there.
I know I hit 1mil on my startrek.website account before that instance updated.
I never really noticed because Liftoff didn’t show it, and I only switched to jumping between Jerboa and Raccoon now that my instance updated to 0.19, which doesn’t work on Liftoff. I’m consistently upvoted more than when I get super high and say something stupid/make a joke only I understood at the time though. lol
when I get super high
I’m startimg to notice a correlation here
I was at 100K when I checked and I’m very glad they removed it. I used to make a new reddit account when I hit 10K.
Haha yeah…
Dear lord, that’s 43 comments/day
I don’t think I go a day without seeing at least one Kolanaki comment.
Single-handedly helping the fediverse thrive.
Which is a radical act to fight tech billionaires like Zuckerberg and Musk. Who have both been reasonably accused of enabling some incredibly awful stuff.
Contributing to the fediverse is probably not the most efficient way to fight for human rights and against billionaires and fascists, but it certainly makes some sort of tiny contribution. So I wouldn’t call it pointless. :)
Yeah I don’t find it pointless at all. Doing my part too.
Exactly. I’m not wasting my time. I’m fighting The Man.
He posted while in a Meta Quest 3 VR HMD
This does make me feel a little better about my chronic internet addiction. Early on I commented even more because so many good posts sat with zero comments and I wanted more people to view them and hopefully add their own comments.
I’m with you there. On Reddit I was overwhelmingly a lurker, but here I actually make an effort to regularly comment on things purely because I hope to get others talking. Once my work is done, I’ll go back to watching from the shadows. (In the least creepy way possible.)
Yeah, a lot of things tbh. I think if I hadn’t then I’d not be who I am today. I’d probably be a better and happier person.
I’d probably be a better and happier person.
don’t say that while i’m in university, i’m gonna start second-guess myself…again.
Just about everything I’ve ever done.
Yay, nihilism!
Not quite. I do believe values and existence in general are meaningful, but I’m convinced that mine specifically don’t matter. Nothing I’ve ever done had any impact on anything or anyone, so I am either just a gigantic loser (likely) or all others are idiots (unlikely). I would be exactly at the same shitty spot in my life if I didn’t try to uphold my values, so why bother anymore?
On some level yes, but ultimately the worst cases of poorly invested time make me learn to spend my time better, so it wasn’t entirely wasted - I like to think of it as a learning experience.
What I am more concerned about is subtle time wasting, sprinkled all throughout daily life in the form of various technologies and media mainly. It’s so hard to get a feeling for how much time you are really spending there and it’s even harder to escape it.
and why this subtle time wasting matter?
Who hasn’t? We really don’t have the foresight to avoid pointless activities.
Often… I have sometimes spent hours trying to photoshop faces of my mates (with permission) on random objects or random scenarios, like a cat or kettle, trying to make it look as normal as my skills allow for a 1-off joke.
bro you gonna have phtoshop skill of a god, you just need to make it useful
You have more faith in me than I do xD
Appreciate the kind words
“We are here on Earth to fart around, and don’t let anybody tell you any different.” --Kurt Vonnegut
Vonnegut is so based. Just all the time.
Like this comment if you recently farted.
I farted while reading it, so idk what to think here
It’s the smell of success. No doubt.
Sometimes, and I think that’s normal, but usually upon reflection there aren’t many things that are truly worthless. I totally sound like a bad motivational poster but I really believe that even poor uses of time can teach you things - even if only how to be patient, forgiving to yourself, or wiser. It’s a life philosophy of mine that you should always be pushing yourself enough that you might fail (research shows that failing about 15% of the time is best for motivation and learning). Plus sometimes just passing the time is a goal in and of itself, especially if you’re doing something you enjoy. Playing a video game, listening to music, etc doesn’t “accomplish” a lot but makes life better.
As a software developer, more frequently than I’d like. Pouring a couple weeks into an epic only to see the entire thing scrapped… At least I got paid.
Happens with personal projects too sometimes, I’ll start refactoring and decide at the end of the weekend I really don’t want to waste me next weekend on it and it’ll go to the archives lol.
But even in those cases, not entirely worthless. I still learned and grew my knowledge. Same applies to similar scenarios not related to writing code.
Had a thing about this at work this week. Got a small project in that is loaded up with garbage requirements, client is never coming back to us after this, and the budget is marginal.
What’s the point? We aren’t getting new knowledge, we aren’t establishing a relationship with a new client, we aren’t even making money. Sales fucked up, these things happen, move on. It isn’t even a challenging assignment so the entire victory is hollow. Boss-man didn’t like my brilliant idea to just ghost the client.
There will come a day when all the code we’ve ever written will be dead.
I know the majority of mine is.
Hah! Only if you’ve never written a “temporary” dirty hack – that code will live forever.
“A man dies two deaths. The first, when he draws his last breath. The second, when the last bit of shitty band-aid code he wrote is overwritten.”
I’ll have you know that these are safety-certified band-aids
Guess as an infrastructure/factory guy I will be around for a while.
Yes, but that’s marriage for you.
Definitely. It’s hard not to be upset that I spent the first half of my life in church learning bullshit.
Yeah the wasted youth I spent doing church shit weighs on me.
Me as well. What really bothers me is it was mostly me driving it. My parents are/were god fearing but I was way more than they were.
All this information about the Bible and it does me no good at all.
Yeah. Nothing quite dechristianized me quite like committing to reading the Bible.
well hey at least you made it out instead of sticking with the crazies for a few more decades
You mean life?
