Sometimes I don’t know if I am actually depressed, or if it’s just that video games mostly suck now. Or both. I barely can be arsed to play anything, and even when I do I feel nothing. 😔
That’s rough mate. The nothing is just a void, emptiness and it’s hard living with that. It sounds more like depression to me. Have you reached out at !mentalhealth@lemmy.world they’re really supportive
Idk dude. I think I flipped a switch and now just playing games doesn’t do it for me because what’s the point really? There’s too many and too many of them are just cash grabs. I can basically only play old or indie games and only if I stream it so that my friend who’s depressed can get some virtual company.
I don’t regret having spent so much time with games but I guess there’s a time and place.
That’s so sweet and thoughtful of you to stream it for your friend. <3
I obviously can’t be sure about you, but in my case my tastes have crystallized pretty dramatically, and I’m now much harder to please than when I was younger.
One thing that has changed though, is that games in general tend to have much more detailed stories and dialog in a way that just wasn’t in the budget or storage space previously. Nothing annoys me more than having to watch a movie when I want to play a game or to jump through hoops just to get to the next chapter of a book. These are very different activities which require very different moods to enjoy.
Yeah, I also got way more picky. I don’t see it as a bad thing at all.
Half the videos games now make you run around doing the regular life shit that you can’t achieve in the real world so why would we be able to do it in the game?
Much easier in game. Rather than getting soap and bucket and water and a scrubber then spending an hour cleaning the bathroom, you press a couple buttons and it’s clean. Way less effort. I’d do more chores irl if they were that easy.
I know that feeling well.
Hey! It could be both!
I never got board of gaming, my taste just changed from stuff like shooters and action to Factorio and Rimworld. Most big game franchises are corpo slop with gambling mechanics anyways.
I’ve just like really been into helldivers 2 lately. I sort of got it finally to play with a friend, but with kids and adhd it’s hard to schedule. He got the game before me, but I’m over level 10” and when I joined his game once he was only level 6 heh
At some point I need to switch back to single player games. I want to finish disco elysium, deadfire, heck I never finished blood and wine completely
I hate when I plan a specific “fun” activity for a specific time (like firing up a new server and testing it after kids go to bed), but when the time comes to do said task, my brain goes “nah, [other thing] is more fun” and suddenly it’s 2 weeks later and the initial activity has been successfully avoided.
It’s like two parts of my brain are fighting against each other. Drives me absolutely insane.
Ha! At least your brain has the decency to recommend something else that’ll be more fun. Half the time my brain just says “nah” to whatever I was about to do without giving me any alternatives so I just sit there, for a while, thinking about other things I could do instead.
Ha! At least your brain has the decency to recommend something else that’ll be more fun.
It only happens when I plan something, like working on a specific computer or one of my cars or bikes. My scooter needs some attention (little guy fell over yesterday due to me putting it on the center stand on top of soft asphault crack sealant 🤦♂️), and I put it off because creating doomsday scenarios in Universe Sandbox until 1AM was more appealing for some reason 🙃.
To be clear: I LIKE working on my vehicles. It’s liberating.
Half the time my brain just says “nah” to whatever I was about to do without giving me any alternatives so I just sit there, for a while, thinking about other things I could do instead.
That’s usually how it goes when I get unexpected “free time”. I sit and think about all the things I could do while watching the clock tick life away…
This. I like DMing for ttrpgs, and I love drawing and painting. You’d think I’d be extatic about prepping homebrew and assets for a digitally run Savage Worlds campaign set Tamriel (or a weird homebrew mix of cyberpunk and vampire the masquerade), the truth is I’m more than just a bit burned out.
I want to start the campaign now, and I’ve had the story and characters ready to go for a month now, but prepping all those art assets has been tedious. So far I’ve done about 20+ tokens, 5+ maps, 15 character portraits, and some 10 general purpose pieces to aid narration. I got about 7 tokens left and I’m done, and I can barely get one out a day, every other day.
The worst thing is I have a very clear idea of what I want the campaign to look like and I’ve already made concessions by using RPG Engine to design my maps instead of doing it all by hand and just retouching it later. I don’t want to make any more concessions, so I’m SOL.
Fun? What is fun?
Guilt and Obligation that’s all there is.
Can confirm. I try to avoid fun because that requires energy.
Felt this in my chest…had a window of my life where things were so rough I was basically ordered by my therapist to take seek medical treatment for both, and even with treatment existing felt like a chore…couldn’t even will myself to look at memes when I woke up. Basically just laid in bed with my eyes closed for half the day for a while. Getting to the point where I could properly take care of myself again was very much a recovery process.
I was incredibly lucky that I had just started a new job when that happened and was full remote for the first few months, so a lot of that time was just supposed to be spent passively learning.
The ADHD/depression combo can be an insidiously detrimental co-morbidity, peeps. If there’s even a hint of that happening to you, ask for help. I had no clue that’s what was happening to me and was lucky that I was in therapy already when everything went down, because my doctor caught it right away.
Is that what that is? shiiiiittt…
Is this an adhd thing or just a depression thing?
I definitely have this. It’s worse when I say I’m going to start a project like making a painting or something.
