My ND NT husband will just like, play a game every once in a while when he feels like it. He’ll just pick it up every so often, maybe play a few days in a week, and then leave it be again for a while to come back to later.

Meanwhile I will get into a game and spend every waking hour playing it. My sleep, diet, work, hygiene, all suffer to varying degrees. I give myself wrist pain and thumb calluses. I will not rest until I 100% it. And if I can’t, I’ll stop and most likely never pick it up again.

Anyway, anyone else playing Silksong?

  • SoftestSapphic@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    3 months ago

    You are the one here playing games like a normal person

    Your husband sounds like they are just more interested in other things usually.

  • Coelacanth@feddit.nuEnglish
    7·
    3 months ago

    I don’t personally care about achievement hunting or 100%-ing games, but otherwise I am exactly the same yes. If a game piques my interest it becomes a hyperfixation that consumes every waking hour, and I will spend as much free time as possible either playing it, watching others play it, watching videos about it, or reading things about it.

    I also don’t really understand people who are juggling multiple games at a time. “Oh, today I’ll play some X, tomorrow I’ll play some Y and over the weekend I’ll enjoy some Z!”. Sounds completely foreign and bizarre to me. I have my current game, and if I’m playing a game I’ll be playing my current game. Who has the bandwidth to keep track of multiple games at once?

    • Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      2·
      3 months ago

      I usually only play games becazse they are either fun or interesting.
      I also don’t understand the playing of multiple games instead of focusing on one but playing it less frequently to avoid fatique.
      What I do understand is playing a “brain-off” game and switching to a game that requires attention (e.g. due to a good story)

  • cokeslutgarbage@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    4·
    3 months ago

    This is why I love the sims, I get obsessed for x amount of time. I go to work if I have to, but then I’ll play sims every other second I can, I’ll even bring the laptop into the bathroom with me. Won’t sleep, won’t cook, won’t shower, etc. And then… all of a sudden, mid game even, I’m just… done. For months. Or years. And it’s a sandbox game, it’s literally digital barbies, so I can just stop and start over with a whole new game later. If im playing a more traditional game, I NEED to 100% it. I NEED a walk through to make sure I don’t make any wrong choices, it almost takes some of the fun out of it, so I don’t play those kinds that often (my roommate recently let me play Spiritfarer on her console, she had 40hrs and 98% and was like "its not important to the story and i cant find the last one… I got to 100% after 84 hours. We are not the same)

  • RQG@lemmy.worldEnglish
    10·
    3 months ago

    It’s either obsession or bust for me. But that’s with everything in life almost.

    Currently obsessed with silk song too. But then it could end any second.

    I didn’t game any video for almost two years prior. Like at all. Excitement suddenly gone.

    I went into board games and trading cards instead. It’s really annoying sometimes to lose interest after so much investment of time and money and emotion.

    Brain is weird man.

  • ℕ𝕖𝕞𝕠@slrpnk.netEnglish
    20·
    3 months ago

    I can’t speak for everyone, but I absolutely do not play videogames like a normal person. I play videogames like a squirrel hoarding nuts for winter. I play videogames like the red-string-and-photos corkboard meme. I play videogames like I was assembling a sand mandala in the middle of a crowded lobby. I play videogames like the movie Memento. I play videogames like I was juggling ventriloquist dummies while chugging a liter of sparkling water and reciting Modern Major General at speed.

    I can’t speak for everyone, but I absolutely do not play videogames like a normal person.

  • the_q@lemmy.zipEnglish
    15·
    3 months ago

    I don’t even enjoy playing them but I keep doing it. I feel guilty or that I’m wasting my time. I get tired of being me.

    • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      4·
      3 months ago

      Real talk: consider talking to a therapist. This sounds like depression, possibly serious and chronic.

      Source: waves at you while walking beside you on the road of life

      • the_q@lemmy.zipEnglish
        3·
        3 months ago

        Thanks, but I’ve been in therapy for 5 years now. Cptsd but depression comes along with it. I appreciate the concern though. I hope your walk is as easy and fulfilling as it can be.

    • Beacon@fedia.io
      5·
      3 months ago

      You can be me for awhile if you want, but it would be a lateral move. At least the scenery would be different?

    • Flagstaff@programming.devEnglish
      1·
      3 months ago

      I’m wasting my time.

      Two sides come to mind:

      Remember that productivity is at its peak with life satisfaction as well; we need relaxation and breaks, even if they must be scheduled at times, to maintain long-term productivity. We’re not emotionless robots.

      On the other hand, it’s totally fine to feel phases when gaming isn’t currently for you. Digging into a skill-based craft (pottery, cooking, music-making, etc.), exercising while watching TV & film, or even writing scripts is all fine as well, if not maybe even preferable. For me, I went through a time when the majority of my gaming was casual, turn-based, multiplayer board games with friends over voice chat, mostly just to have fun with and catch up with said friends almost more than the actual games (which include a range of both co-op and competitive titles). I’ve also generally gotten hyper-picky with games and how I spend my time; Lemmy posts are just as interesting as many games, or tinkering with the programs Espanso, Syncthing, etc. There is nothing wrong with leaving gaming due to a lack of personal interest, even if you were a hardcore gamer before or whatever. I can’t even visit my favorites from before, but I find immense joy in watching a friend play through any of them for their first time. There are all sorts of things we can do in life outside of our own direct playing of games. Some even get wanderlust and fly abroad… those weirdos (lol jk).

      I get tired of being me.

      If this has been going on for a while, and the above mindsets don’t make a dent, it sounds like a trip carefully planned and actively supervised by a veteran psychonaut may be worthwhile. 🍄

  • ZoDoneRightNow@kbin.earth
    1·
    3 months ago

    I am sorta in between the two. There are a few games or series that I will always come back to and play the new ones when they come out but I don’t play very often. Some times I will play a lot all at once maybe 5 days out of 7 for 3 or 4 weeks. Most of the time I will play maybe 1 to 2 days a fortnight and only for an hour or 2 each time I do.

  • mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    3·
    3 months ago

    Factorio was the last game that truly grabbed me by the short-and-curlies. At my worst, I was playing for 8-10 hours a day (with a full time job taking another 9 hours) and started seeing conveyor belt designs in my dreams.

  • Asafum@feddit.nlEnglish
    12·
    3 months ago

    I don’t care to aim for 100% in games, but I’ll put it this way: I found wuthering waves 2ish months ago and already have 300 hours in it…

  • HighlandCow@feddit.ukEnglish
    3·
    3 months ago

    LMAO I knew for a fact this about silksong, and yes I got hooked on that game very similarly too you

  • IngeniousRocks (They/She) @lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    3·
    3 months ago

    Haven’t touched silksong. I tend to game in binges. I mostly play civ and ksp and will usually dump 10 hours or so in a session, but I don’t do that very often, maybe twice a month nowadays. In my youth I’d game for hours and hours. I’m pretty sure I logged like 700 hours in skyrim in 2012 alone, and I didn’t even get it til July that year