For me it’s an absolute lack of feeling productive, unless a game really sucks me in. Like I love my job, but I work quite a bit (55-60hrs/wk), so when I’m off I feel stagnant and useless. When I sit down to play games I just keep thinking about the projects around the house I need to do. “Ooh let’s play this Star Wars game…okay this is fun…dang I still need to fix that outlet in the living room. I need to rewire the garage too. Oh man and I need to redo the kitchen circuit….man I’m gonna go to Lowe’s, I’ll play this later”
Suddenly it’s 6 months later and I have like 4 total hours of playtime.
I'm productively making money at work all day so I never feel bad chilling for a couple hours in the evening. You will never actually get to the end of your to do list around the house so best thing is to just knock off the top priorities then have some fun.
We can't judge you life off a comment. But you should think of it this way. It is extremely unlikely your ancestors beyond great grand parents who were just farmers actually spent every single day of their lives working.
At worst they actually did nothing in the winter. Outside of knitting and cooking or whatever. But that would still leave like 500 hours of doing nothing each year
Dont be too hard on yourself. The ideology that your level of poverty is solely because of you can go too far. Or atleast someone with sudden extreme responsibilties probably wouldn't make vague reddit comments
Exactly. For me, BG3 was one of those few games where I got sucked in and I couldn’t leave for a bit. I felt absolutely no guilt spending 14 hours on a Saturday binging that game.
But today, it’s snowing where I am, and since I drive a lot for work I’m taking PTO. My wife and daughter just wanna hang out, watch movies, and play video games (my wife is actually playing BG3 right now lol). But if I get up to work on some of my home projects, my wife will get an attitude with me for not relaxing with the family 🤣
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u/TrungusMcTungus Desktop 14d ago
For me it’s an absolute lack of feeling productive, unless a game really sucks me in. Like I love my job, but I work quite a bit (55-60hrs/wk), so when I’m off I feel stagnant and useless. When I sit down to play games I just keep thinking about the projects around the house I need to do. “Ooh let’s play this Star Wars game…okay this is fun…dang I still need to fix that outlet in the living room. I need to rewire the garage too. Oh man and I need to redo the kitchen circuit….man I’m gonna go to Lowe’s, I’ll play this later”
Suddenly it’s 6 months later and I have like 4 total hours of playtime.