With Discord servers constantly popping new messages, my YouTube subscription list updating often in the evenings, and Twitter/GAF providing constant discussion with the potential for exciting breaking news (ergo, dopamine hell) it can be really difficult to maintain my focus on a game. I'll sit down to play a game and constantly get distracted by my phone or laptop, much like OP. As dumb as it sounds, it's a bad feeling realizing all my gaming excitement from earlier in the day amounted to nothing. Sometimes it feels like this is because of the size of my backlog "I can play Game A, but I've been meaning to play Game B, oh and so-and-so really wants me to get into Series A, and Game C just came out." Often instead of just picking something and playing it, I'll forget the whole thing and binge watch garbage online. I'll hype myself up all day for some private evening gaming time, only to fall completely out of the feeling when the time comes. I haven't found much of a solution yet myself, but I'll share my own circumstances and what I'm trying to alleviate this.įrom my experience, my focus on games is disrupted in two different ways:Įither 1. I often have this issue with attention myself, OP. Has anyone actually managed to regain their attention span for games and everything else? If so, please tell me how, or is it a lost cause? Where did the rest of the day go? Pissed away on Facebook and other such wastes of time online that give no sense of satisfaction. This Sunday I was planning to watch 2 movies with my girlfriend and get a good way into Crash, but we watched one and I played about 3 levels of Crash. I'm convinced it's because I can't seem to focus my attention on anything for any length of time. No matter how many movies I download, how much tasty food I prepare or how many games I've been waiting months to play and finally have in my hands - by the end of the weekend somehow I only managed to enjoy half of it, and even that half somehow felt unsatisfying. I've been trying to figure out why I haven't been enjoying any of my lazy Sunday's recently. You know something is wrong when you can't even bring yourself to play a game for more than about 45 minutes without having to take a break to watch a youtube video or refresh a news site or forum. And I think that one of life's great joys is to become engrossed in something, whether it's an activity, book, movie, music or video game. Personally, I think it's because the internet has fucking destroyed my attention span. I've heard it said by gaffers that the reason we don't binge on games the way we did in our younger years is because we've "grown up", "matured" or have "too many responsibilities" etc.
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