I do think I had a moment that struck me on a pretty deep level when I was playing an MMO and getting sick of it and being like "Why should I grind to earn furniture to decorate my imaginary virtual home when I didn't even bother buying any furniture for my real home"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy and
It kind of hit me that here I am, playing video games to get away from a whole genre of life tasks that other people play video games to replicate The sense of alienation from the human race was profound
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy and
So like riddle me this Minecraft I can clear a 1m^3 block in less than a second. Last time I did that IRL it took me 45m (needless to say IRL material has to move from A to B) I assume there is an appeal for video games in simulated life-like actions because they’re simplified
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Replying to @authomony @Nymphomachy and
I mean... I guess I just... don't want to clear the block? I'm fine with the block staying where it is I can leave the block alone and it can leave me alone
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Replying to @arthur_affect @authomony and
Again, this isn't really about video games Home reno shows (which I absolutely despise and yet was forced to watch for a certain period of my life) admitted that the reason they keep coming back to open-plan settings is that guys only watch the shows for knocking down the walls
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Replying to @arthur_affect @authomony and
I do not identify with this impulse at all I feel greatly alienated from my gender when you see guys walking around identifying the load-bearing walls and the walls they could "totally knock out" Why do you want to knock out the wall Keep it there, it's doing fine where it is
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Replying to @arthur_affect @authomony and
This is the whole raccoon motif
@Nymphomachy keeps coming back to that I find such an attractive theme The triumphalist take that "Animals adapt to their surroundings; Man adapts his surroundings to himself" And I guess spiritually I'm more of an animal2 replies 4 retweets 23 likes -
Replying to @arthur_affect @authomony and
It's probably an ADHD thing My dad used to freak out about this when I was a teenager "How do you leave shit on the floor *directly in the path* of where you need to go How is it easier to *step over* that same shirt on the floor twenty times a day than pick it up once?"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @authomony and
I mean if you want an honest answer it's because "stepping over it" isn't even a conscious action anymore, that's just how walking over that region of floor goes, and changing that pattern would at this point be more effort
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Replying to @arthur_affect @authomony and
Which is how it's possible, I guess, for me as an adult to still have cardboard packaging in the corner from a package I ordered from Amazon in spring of 2017
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The weird thing is that, sure, in most of polite society this is a horrible moral failing, but it's also a *cognitive capacity* most people seem to lack? Like how for like a month at one job I had a computer without a working mouse
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Replying to @arthur_affect @authomony and
And I was just like "You know what, it doesn't take that long to get used to navigating Windows with keyboard shortcuts A mouse is actually completely optional, and in some ways slower"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @authomony and
It literally only got replaced because something else on the computer didn't work and when the IT guy came in and found out the mouse didn't work he was outraged
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