I’ve had a few serious burnouts and anhedonia is a big tell. When I start to lose joy in pretty much everything I know I’ve hit a wall. Someone else in here talked about a sense of dread when you think about work, that’s a clear sign for me too. Exhaustion is common.

In retrospect (35-40 years ago now) she was the keeper. She was sweet, quirky and supportive. Liked rock/metal, concerts, games, generally nerdy stuff like me. But…like a teenage dude as soon as someone exotic and hot showed interest I broke up with her. That exotic one “dear john lettered” me in basic training before Desert Storm and slept will all my friends. I think there’s a lesson in there somewhere.

I strap GoPros on to hand built FPV Freestyle quadcopters and make videos out of it. When I lived in Orlando there were a few of us doing it. Lately I know of 0 in my area.

That’s a cool hobby!

FML. Well I was gonna make one purchase next month, either BF6 or Ghosts Of Yotei. Guess it made up my mind for me.

Yeah, pretty much. https://www.unicor.gov/ if you want to find everything made that isn’t food as well. It’s a huge part of the industry.

They fuck everybody, just in different ways :)

I go back and forth on this a lot. I’ve been gaming since the Atari 2600 and I agree this happens in games, but personally disagree that Veilguard was a clear example. I really enjoyed that title and platnum’ed it. I think it’s more likely, that just like music, movies and tv, expensive studios tend to use the most profit / least risk model. So if a game is appealing for age 1 to age 80 it gives them the least risk and the widest demographic. To further minimize that risk, every game has to have the same stupid Hollywood pitch lines of “Oh this game is <insert popular title here as X> but with a different Y and a new Z” in order to get traction from investors. Boring and dull are side effects of it. The fact it started to spread in the RPG genre is just another level of degradation.

I’ve been WFH for at least 10 years and live in rural area. Starlink was like 150-200$ a month for an unpredictable 5-150mbps and did meh. When I finally got fiber it was sub 100$ a month for 2gbps stable. Not a hard decision :)

Yeah for sure. I can be over-stimulated by the story pretty easy. The first couple endings I pulled in Cyperpunk were very dark and tragic. Plagues Tale: Requiem after playing both games is a killer. I had some bad decisions in the final run in Veilguard that got my favorite character killed in a tragic way then had to answer for it later. Of course Last Of Us 2. Many others.

I never was a Tweeter, but I joined it when it was new just to hang out with the artists and gamers. I just recently deleted my account. It’s not for me. Becoming too Twitteresque. Smaller Mastodon instances have better communities and more relevant posts for me.