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Am i getting old if i feel the same way, i get really excited to have some time off to finally game only to then realize its really exhausting and i'd rather just watch some series or stream
At some point you recognize the game is just giving you another to-do list.
Yeah instead of playing an RTS game I started my own business. Grinding out some turns harvesting puts real gold in your pockets. But the angry villagers can be a problem sometimes.
Those damn children. Get them their grains!
Nah, I think that starts happening when you first get a job. Jobs take longer than school and generally are more labor intensive, and there's also the commute, and when you get home you have to do chores and either make healthy food or eat something garbage for your body, and that's just as a single person or a couple. It's no wonder everyone's tired, the 9-5 grind can be really exhausting, and when you're tired anything that takes effort feels like a grind.
Just to be clear, I don't mean to sound hopeless. There are things you can do that make life feel meaningful and to allow you to enjoy your time, I just mean that life can be tiring.
If you're completely exhausted after your day it's possible something deeper is going on
Not really that deep, just tired at the end of the day it's normal stuff really. I can't game when I get home I need to give my self breather before any of that plus gaming tried is never a fun experience
I can't game when I get home because I have a partner to emotionally take care of by spending time with her and strengthing our bond. Sure I bitch about it sometimes, but I'm also not 14 anymore and have different priorities.
EDIT: That's not to say I don't game, but I have to be a lot more selective and realistic with when and for how long I do it, and that's fine by me. Relationships are more important than videogaming dopamine hits.
Good to hear but it is a bitch you can't do everything at once so you have to pick an choose. Lucky I'm not in a relationship so more me time is good time
In the last couple of years I feel like that. Games that require a lot of time to get into, or to complete, feel like not accessible anymore.
I play either those games I used to for I already know them, or something with a very short route to dopamine. I've found playing Burnout series not causing me this burnout, kek. Just racing, no long-time investments, just crushing cars and see them fly. A good way to rest after a day of complicated tasks and decisions.
Idk about you but I'm a dev, and when you have a job tbag keeps your brain ON a lot of the time, I feel like it's more common to want to turn it off in your down time
Same, there's no gas in the tank at the end of the day. I problem solve for a living, it's hard to get into that after work
Nah, life's exhausting and the older you get the more exhausting it becomes. Work requirements and responsibilities typically increase as you age, children are a black hole of time (as fun as they are), your body just starts to say "fuck this" and give up in creative ways and you just generally have less energy than you did the day before.
I feel like the older people get, the more they tend to prefer to watch others do things rather than do them themselves.
I relate hard. Multiple times before, I've spent hours and hours scouring the internet for a download link to a game, or even a tool or library needed to make it work. I'll open the folder at 99%, ready to install 0.05 seconds after it's downloaded. I'll launch the game just to make sure it runs okay on my system, then give it a little whirl, and even then, it's rare I'll ever see beyond the tutorial, if that.