So my entire life has been extreme boredom, followed by finding a book/videogame/hobby I find interesting, doing nothing but that for awhile, then never touching it again.

I’m debating maybe trying to make a rule of not doing something two days in a row. Like I just found a video game I liked and played it all day yesterday and today, and while I still wanna play I already feel its shininess wearing off.

Curious if anyone else has tried to space out their dopamine buttons and if it helped. So maybe like instead of just playing the same game tomorrow, I’ll need to try other games, or maybe try to find a new book series to hyper focus on…

  • idyllic_optimism@lemmy.today
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    20 days ago

    For games specifically, I have to binge or I’ll never go back to it and next time I wanna play, I have to start over. Books or TV shows etc. don’t have the same problem as they are more passive consumption than a game.

    • ericbomb@lemmy.worldOP
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      20 days ago

      Ooh good point.

      Thinking on which games I’ve been able to come back to consistently, are ones with lots of replay value or are designed to make new runs.

      Like Stellaris, you start over all the time for different experiencs.

      100 hour rpgs where every play through is identical? Never been able to replay those.