Because like many, all you care about is money.

Many of the leaders and powerful people suffer with the same issues, need to find a way to get a dopamine hit and leads to trafficking humans etc.

Originally posted by Too many carbs:

Because like many, all you care about is money.

Many of the leaders and powerful people suffer with the same issues, need to find a way to get a dopamine hit and leads to trafficking humans etc.

Wow, that's uh not exactly what I was getting at but go off.

Originally posted by Peni4YoThots:

Originally posted by Too many carbs:

Because like many, all you care about is money.

Many of the leaders and powerful people suffer with the same issues, need to find a way to get a dopamine hit and leads to trafficking humans etc.

Wow, that's uh not exactly what I was getting at but go off.

I don't care what you are getting at, not everyone is so out of control and don't have the power to do it anyway, it's just being told.

Some people lose their passion of gaming. It’s normal.

For me my passion is still there. But when coming home from work I’m always burnt out and don’t have the motivation to play.

Originally posted by Too many carbs:

Because like many, all you care about is money.

Many of the leaders and powerful people suffer with the same issues, need to find a way to get a dopamine hit and leads to trafficking humans etc.

???

Originally posted by Peni4YoThots:

I graduated HS in 2009. Before I had a job I only got 2-4 games per year. I would play those games through and through. Doing just about all there was to do. I played and loved many games back then that I initially hated, but learned to love. I remember hating Front Mission 4 on the PS2. I kept playing it and eventually understood it and enjoyed it. Every game felt special then.

Now here I am years later. I have plenty of money. I can buy pretty much whatever I want and I sit here just overloaded with games. I have so many games that I have not completed. I would have done anything to have the internet and Steam back when I was a kid. I envy high school kids now that are living some of their best years with so much entertainment at their finger tips.

I don't know man I just can't find the magic games once had. These days my patience is so thin that the least minor inconvenience a game gives me, I will rage quit and uninstall. I guess now where I know I can just buy whatever I don't take the time to understand and give more games a chance.

Money gave me the ability to not appreciate this great hobby like I used to. Money isn't the most important thing, but it does affect everything that is important.

Try a different game genre or just take a break from gaming

Originally posted by Too many carbs:

Originally posted by Peni4YoThots:

Wow, that's uh not exactly what I was getting at but go off.

I don't care what you are getting at, not everyone is so out of control and don't have the power to do it anyway, it's just being told.

I really don't understand what you're saying.

Originally posted by Peni4YoThots:

Originally posted by Too many carbs:

I don't care what you are getting at, not everyone is so out of control and don't have the power to do it anyway, it's just being told.

I really don't understand what you're saying.

Whispers.

Originally posted by CanisterGaming2137:

Originally posted by Peni4YoThots:

I graduated HS in 2009. Before I had a job I only got 2-4 games per year. I would play those games through and through. Doing just about all there was to do. I played and loved many games back then that I initially hated, but learned to love. I remember hating Front Mission 4 on the PS2. I kept playing it and eventually understood it and enjoyed it. Every game felt special then.

Now here I am years later. I have plenty of money. I can buy pretty much whatever I want and I sit here just overloaded with games. I have so many games that I have not completed. I would have done anything to have the internet and Steam back when I was a kid. I envy high school kids now that are living some of their best years with so much entertainment at their finger tips.

I don't know man I just can't find the magic games once had. These days my patience is so thin that the least minor inconvenience a game gives me, I will rage quit and uninstall. I guess now where I know I can just buy whatever I don't take the time to understand and give more games a chance.

Money gave me the ability to not appreciate this great hobby like I used to. Money isn't the most important thing, but it does affect everything that is important.

Try a different game genre or just take a break from gaming

I play everything from Wuthering Waves to BF6. I love gaming. I just go through them so much faster now despite games having much more content than the older games I used to play.

It was made for 9 year olds. And were all bad games.

But you know what, you love bad games because you recall how bad they are.

I played good games. I can barely remember them.

Devs need to start making bad games. The graphics are barely virtual but it's meant to be hard to see the pixels since it makes you focus.

So grab a nintendo or a steamdeck and play these forgotten bad games.

The novelty effect diminish the older you get.

Originally posted by Peni4YoThots:

Originally posted by CanisterGaming2137:

Try a different game genre or just take a break from gaming

I play everything from Wuthering Waves to BF6. I love gaming. I just go through them so much faster now despite games having much more content than the older games I used to play.

Have you tried maybe retro games? They're a bit hard but emulators have save states so it's not that big of a deal.

What seems to be interesting, no matter our ages (I'm A LOT older than the OP) PS2 was a "magical time". And it was.

I think what we're seeing is not a generational issue, but the fact games today that have made as many strides in graphical quality, offer little else.

MP may be a reason, in that there is not much to competitive gaming, unless you want to compete.

Scripts and good ones for SP games we had back then were top notch. Where today there seems to be a brain drain of sorts, or not putting emphasis as much on quality as much as quantity.

Originally posted by Peni4YoThots:

I don't know man I just can't find the magic games once had. These days my patience is so thin that the least minor inconvenience a game gives me, I will rage quit and uninstall. I guess now where I know I can just buy whatever I don't take the time to understand and give more games a chance.

Money gave me the ability to not appreciate this great hobby like I used to. Money isn't the most important thing, but it does affect everything that is important.

Social media and the way media in general works today. Makes you need instant gratification.
Need that spike.
NEws is put in spikes.
Youtube is now in spikes.
Couple minutes and advert.
Big Titles to make your brain want to see it over something of substance.

Take a break from gaming it is not meant to be THE goto place especially if you got spare cash.

Take a break from screen time too.

There are many things you can do that dont cost money and even more if you do spend money.

For example making simple projects like a telegraph - simple to do with all the knowledge out there at the fingertips.
Simple but productive things like that.

Also read some classic books as irritating as they are to the modern mind.
Learn to Enjoy the words once more ie Charles Dickens wrote in a way that was meant to be enjoyed by the words and phrases just as much as the storylines.

Seems your bit blown out and this is happened and is happening to lots of people world over.

I get it too.

Another problem when people feel they have 'reached that plateau' of having everything they want is they lose some drive or go for the more elite kind of things in life and become unhappy if they are unable to get to them or even if they do get them that happy spike just does not hit the spot.

So again check out the simple but productive forms of entertainment.
Plants, carpentry, painting toy soldiers ie 40k , electronic projects, maybe combine them all into something.

From there you will be able to appreciate the screen tme once more without becoming in need of the cheap happy spike 'the man' wants you to be addicted to.