crazy how video games were the least healthy entertainment option, due to it being the most addictive, least social entertainment option out there (outside of hard drugs like hard pills and injectables)
but now its 5000000x more healthy to play classic video games (skinner boxes not-included) than to doomscroll or do what most normies do nowadays to their brain on the daily, hourly
when i was 12 i wanted to program, and i started with c++
never got around to actually understanding c++ due to never being able to understand pointers despite months of attempts
when i was ~14 i played uplink and i failed to get very far in it, still i enjoyed the funny lights and feeling like a newbie hacker script kiddie (i knew that term back then too)
according to steam, i last played uplink in 2014 which is when i finished it for real, making the age at which i finished it ~16-18, and then i finished the game 3 times. and then the game was SOOOO easy
after that, i wanted to play more uplink, and a new game had just come out in uplink's vein, "Hacknet". i bought and installed it and i couldnt get through the tutorial no matter how much i spent thinking, and eventually i gave up. it was IMPOSSIBLE to figure out the tutorial when i was 18
i just came home from a grand roadtrip some 5 days ago, and i remembered this as i was listening to the uplink soundtrack. "wait, i loved uplink, and there were more complex uplink games i tried and failed, i wonder"
i installed Hacknet again, and breezed through what felt like over half the game in one sitting. Absolutely perplexxed i wasnt able to beat the most simple tutorial of the game at age 18, c. 11 years ago.
smarter by a little bit, every year
After years of trying, ive even figured out how c++ pointers work
maybe one day ill be half a script kiddie of a brain's worth
everyone should read a MINIMUM of a novella's worth of book every year i think (~40 pages of words). e-reader, real book, scrolling the desktop (this one is impossbile though)
or a fuck ton of comics i dunno they have like a million words if you read a quadrillion pages that counts too
that'd be only roughly 2-3 hours of your life if books, a lot more if comics, for a lot of thinking and severely rebuilding your brain to be severely different
and play some classic styled video games, not ones that have skinner boxes built in fully or partially. Not dota, not cs, not battle royales, not autobattlers, maaaaaaybe games like Hearthstone, but really i mean like old arena and boomer shooters, the puzzler games, the games that have those annoying "god why do i have to do this fucking part again", the game where "fuck i forgot to quicksave for 15 minutes" is still a thing, where the experience isnt quite fully streamlined, just nearly there but not quite. games where automatic checkpoints are placed in mildly annoying places. to build your tolerance to boredom, so you can enjoy greater joys not receivable from instant gratification.
escape the future of WALL-E, read a book and play real video games and watch all videos at 1.0x speed or kill yourself
but now its 5000000x more healthy to play classic video games (skinner boxes not-included) than to doomscroll or do what most normies do nowadays to their brain on the daily, hourly
when i was 12 i wanted to program, and i started with c++
never got around to actually understanding c++ due to never being able to understand pointers despite months of attempts
when i was ~14 i played uplink and i failed to get very far in it, still i enjoyed the funny lights and feeling like a newbie hacker script kiddie (i knew that term back then too)
according to steam, i last played uplink in 2014 which is when i finished it for real, making the age at which i finished it ~16-18, and then i finished the game 3 times. and then the game was SOOOO easy
after that, i wanted to play more uplink, and a new game had just come out in uplink's vein, "Hacknet". i bought and installed it and i couldnt get through the tutorial no matter how much i spent thinking, and eventually i gave up. it was IMPOSSIBLE to figure out the tutorial when i was 18
i just came home from a grand roadtrip some 5 days ago, and i remembered this as i was listening to the uplink soundtrack. "wait, i loved uplink, and there were more complex uplink games i tried and failed, i wonder"
i installed Hacknet again, and breezed through what felt like over half the game in one sitting. Absolutely perplexxed i wasnt able to beat the most simple tutorial of the game at age 18, c. 11 years ago.
smarter by a little bit, every year
After years of trying, ive even figured out how c++ pointers work
maybe one day ill be half a script kiddie of a brain's worth
everyone should read a MINIMUM of a novella's worth of book every year i think (~40 pages of words). e-reader, real book, scrolling the desktop (this one is impossbile though)
or a fuck ton of comics i dunno they have like a million words if you read a quadrillion pages that counts too
that'd be only roughly 2-3 hours of your life if books, a lot more if comics, for a lot of thinking and severely rebuilding your brain to be severely different
and play some classic styled video games, not ones that have skinner boxes built in fully or partially. Not dota, not cs, not battle royales, not autobattlers, maaaaaaybe games like Hearthstone, but really i mean like old arena and boomer shooters, the puzzler games, the games that have those annoying "god why do i have to do this fucking part again", the game where "fuck i forgot to quicksave for 15 minutes" is still a thing, where the experience isnt quite fully streamlined, just nearly there but not quite. games where automatic checkpoints are placed in mildly annoying places. to build your tolerance to boredom, so you can enjoy greater joys not receivable from instant gratification.
escape the future of WALL-E, read a book and play real video games and watch all videos at 1.0x speed or kill yourself
