Theorycrafting in games is much easier than taking action in real life. In games your objective is often obvious, well defined, and decided for you. The mechanics you are optimizing are likewise.
In real life you have to choose a goal, collect information about your options, take blind risks to not miss deadlines, and you can’t pause or restart.
Unironically create a stat sheet for yourself using things you can control. For me it started with my fitness and health. Buy a cheap note book from the dollar store, pick some form of exercise and track your progress. Learn how it changes with certain meals or amounts of sleep/rest. Set short terms goes like adding a few pounds to specific lifts or improving your speed/distance. Then add long term goals like having a combined squat, deadlift, and bench over 500 pounds or running a marathon.
This was the change that got me to actually enjoy working out about a decade ago. I’m not saying this will work for everyone but learning to approach myself in the same way I was willing to with games really improved my life. You can literally grind IRL and see drastic improvements.
My trick was to look at myself as the video game character. Instead of min maxing my DPS in wow I’m trying to get bigger, stronger, faster. If you are one of those people who enjoy min maxing, try min maxing your physical self. Watch out body dismorphia is a thing
While a chuckle at first, it really is sad when you encounter people who put more effort into their digital persona than the real world 🙁
Like people who nitro out their discord profs only to be completely incapable of interacting with humans normally outside that bubble
If only it was that easy to raise your stats like you would in rpgs like the sims for example. Read a book: gains +1 intelligence **permanently** (no forgetting!); Take a shower: gains +1 charisma
That’s because the world is a dumpster fire you cannot control every aspect of. You shouldn’t internalize societal failures, although you can do whatever is in your power like voting or keeping your side of the street clean, being kind, that kind of thing.
A game character you can pretty much take full responsibility for because a game has specific parameters you likely already know and virtually nothing standing between you and max stats, by design. You’re meant to win a game. There’s no concept of winning irl. You just exist.
This comment will be buried, but someone might read this.
The fact this is a joke and people find it humorous along with the truth behind it has a really sad reality. It truly is sad and pitiful. I have friends that did this, didn’t do shit in their life, didn’t develop a sense of healthy living, wore the same oversized clothes everywhere. But hey they’ll spend hours on their GTA character. Then years later they complain about how life is so depressing or how they can’t find happiness.
Pathetic honestly. If this sounds like you, stop laughing and start to take your own damn life seriously.
There once was a boy in middle school, who played Diablo two. His mother got him a dog for his birthday.
One day he was playing Diablo, when the dog had to go poup. The boy could not bring himself to leave his keyboard inside the dog took a big boy shit in his kennel.
That day, his mom come home and say “you need to take the dog outside, it does not like to shit it’s kennel”
So the next day, when Doug had to shit, the boy did not care and the dog shit its kennel.
When mom come home, she clean shit and tell boy if this happened one more time I’m going to shit YOUR KENNEL.
Next day, same thing happened, dog shit kennel but this time when Mom come home, she saw what had happened and said now you’ve done it.
She opened up the boys computer and shit inside it. Now every day when Boy played Diablo, he smell his mom shit as a reminder of dog he never love.
Imagine both
Theorycrafting in games is much easier than taking action in real life. In games your objective is often obvious, well defined, and decided for you. The mechanics you are optimizing are likewise.
In real life you have to choose a goal, collect information about your options, take blind risks to not miss deadlines, and you can’t pause or restart.
And once you finally perfect your character you…
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make another one.
Improving your life takes more effort and focus. Humans have just grown to accustomed to more passive passtimes.
Time I spend on grinding games : over 9000
Time I spend fixing my life : 0
If I could see my stats in numerical form, you could bet your damn ass I would be working to improve those every single second of every day
Unironically create a stat sheet for yourself using things you can control. For me it started with my fitness and health. Buy a cheap note book from the dollar store, pick some form of exercise and track your progress. Learn how it changes with certain meals or amounts of sleep/rest. Set short terms goes like adding a few pounds to specific lifts or improving your speed/distance. Then add long term goals like having a combined squat, deadlift, and bench over 500 pounds or running a marathon.
This was the change that got me to actually enjoy working out about a decade ago. I’m not saying this will work for everyone but learning to approach myself in the same way I was willing to with games really improved my life. You can literally grind IRL and see drastic improvements.
You can have both, gamify your life!
Is this the Diablo subreddit ?
That’s because planning in video games is a guaranteed success, things only get better over time.
Fr, my video game characters wear better clothes than I do.
Ahaha, I just came off FF9 after working on perfecting my end-game gear and I see this.
My trick was to look at myself as the video game character. Instead of min maxing my DPS in wow I’m trying to get bigger, stronger, faster. If you are one of those people who enjoy min maxing, try min maxing your physical self. Watch out body dismorphia is a thing
Guess I’ll just stick to gaming then, no pausing or restarting in real life? That’s a game changer.
Unfortunately the reality of many people. Don’t sink into gaming addiction, all these numbers and pixels are not your life.
Tell me about it, I’ve been trying to optimize my life mechanics for years but keep getting game over!
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when playing the sims or harvest moon 20 years ago.
then that thought comes into your head. maybe i should actually do this?
POav when gaming has fucked up your dopamine system.
While a chuckle at first, it really is sad when you encounter people who put more effort into their digital persona than the real world 🙁
Like people who nitro out their discord profs only to be completely incapable of interacting with humans normally outside that bubble
FACTS
Like I’m ever gonna own the kind of estate my Skyrim character owns.
If only it was that easy to raise your stats like you would in rpgs like the sims for example. Read a book: gains +1 intelligence **permanently** (no forgetting!); Take a shower: gains +1 charisma
That’s because the world is a dumpster fire you cannot control every aspect of. You shouldn’t internalize societal failures, although you can do whatever is in your power like voting or keeping your side of the street clean, being kind, that kind of thing.
A game character you can pretty much take full responsibility for because a game has specific parameters you likely already know and virtually nothing standing between you and max stats, by design. You’re meant to win a game. There’s no concept of winning irl. You just exist.
This comment will be buried, but someone might read this.
The fact this is a joke and people find it humorous along with the truth behind it has a really sad reality. It truly is sad and pitiful. I have friends that did this, didn’t do shit in their life, didn’t develop a sense of healthy living, wore the same oversized clothes everywhere. But hey they’ll spend hours on their GTA character. Then years later they complain about how life is so depressing or how they can’t find happiness.
Pathetic honestly. If this sounds like you, stop laughing and start to take your own damn life seriously.
Until devs finally fix the save game bug and the missing respawn, I’m not gonna place any effort in this drudgery.
Let me teach you a tale:
There once was a boy in middle school, who played Diablo two. His mother got him a dog for his birthday.
One day he was playing Diablo, when the dog had to go poup. The boy could not bring himself to leave his keyboard inside the dog took a big boy shit in his kennel.
That day, his mom come home and say “you need to take the dog outside, it does not like to shit it’s kennel”
So the next day, when Doug had to shit, the boy did not care and the dog shit its kennel.
When mom come home, she clean shit and tell boy if this happened one more time I’m going to shit YOUR KENNEL.
Next day, same thing happened, dog shit kennel but this time when Mom come home, she saw what had happened and said now you’ve done it.
She opened up the boys computer and shit inside it. Now every day when Boy played Diablo, he smell his mom shit as a reminder of dog he never love.
THE END