Is it just me, or commodities and having everything served is ruining our gratification?

[Pandaprewmaster325]

The human mind can get so obsessed with making the most optimal choice, that it ends up making no choice at all. You have to make a conscious choice to just pick something and throw yourself into it, and remind yourself that a chance at a good time is better than not having fun at all due to choice paralysis.

Yeah you need to get over the entire optimizing everything mindset it can really suck the fun out of the game , if I'm not playing with full efficiency but still enjoying what does it matter then?

 

[iamthemilkman]

I can't stand people who have groceries delivered and then complain about moldy blueberries or bad lettuce. It's not that difficult to go to the grocery store. Get out of the house and do things, folks.

 

[Waffles's iconWaffles]

Yes, the struggle only made things sweeter.

I remember coordinating my homework just to catch my favorite shows at their appropriate time slots or patiently waiting for games to be released so I could rent them.

Now I sit in a throne of nothingness, reaping unearned rewards with a single query on a browser or the deep knowledge that entire shows would be there for me, available to binge as soon as I want them. There's no fight, no wait, only the tiredness of already having the things you used to want, now granted by default and quickly forgotten as a result.

 

[bjork]

I've never been an easily excitable person anyway, but I only kind of agree with the sentiment. Reason being, there are some people who are way too excited about everything. Some of it might be to try and get a reaction out of people, whether it's forum posts where I read them and they're *REALLY* excited about some thing that I'm indifferent towards, or like when they announced Shenmue 3 and those guys were falling on the ground and weeping. Good for them, but I've just never had that kind of attachment to something to elicit that kind of reaction.

 

[Another Iori]

Scarcity principle for your past self and choice paralysis for your present self.

You can solve this problem by developing a method of active, selective, and procedural consumption, rather than relying solely on algorithms or the current trends set by others.

 

[antii antii]

Agreed, having something to look forward to or a sense of delayed gratification is lost when you have so much readily at your fingertips. Entertainment loses a degree of novelty.

This is kinda me right now with waiting for GTA6 like especially since it got delayed or the new spiderman movie like I’m excited to wait and see what these things look like and that I won’t have it right away. People always get upset when something doesn’t come out in the next year. Like even with music an artist will drop a project than people want a new one not even a year later

What I do in cases of, let's call it "Electronic intoxication", is first disconnect, you can leave those 24 hours connected devices and do something more physical like gardening, cleaning, painting your walls, physical shopping, etc.
Other thing is to start actually enjoying simple pleasures like, bird watching, cooking, some sport, etc.
Also I would try to limit my backlog(games, anime, Literature, etc) to reasonable number.

Learning a skill is a good way to alleviate all that electronic intoxication like something that gets you outside. I’ve been drawing more focusing on my photography and started learning trade work while in college and I avoid my phone as long as it isn’t important

One of the silly reasons I left PC gaming because I can't focus on gaming, I'll be in forums, youtube, discord, wikipedia instead of actually playing the damn games. I don't like having too much convenience, it drains the beauty of life.

I have a notebook, I could use my notepad app in my phone but I don't want to. I have a Kindle, but sometimes just prefer a physical book because I can focus on it.

As a programmer, it's ironic I steer away from technology for daily things. Everyone around me is like "BRO CHATGPT" and I'm like "uh no thanks" even though I've personally worked with AI/Vector databases for some projects.

Bro in my photography classes there are people that use ChatGPT to make ideas for their finals it’s like you didn’t do anything you just asked the bot it removes the whole creative process I feel of brainstorming and a little soul searching to find something your interested to capture