Anonymous
04/03/2026 (Fri) 21:36
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this might be a good place to collect a few observations about video games that recently became obvious to me.
video games changed the timing of my thinking in some ways:
>pausing
a video game i can just stop whenever it is convenient to me. if someone calls me and i want to respond, when something was cooking (back when i ate cooked food) and i wanted to check on it, when there is something urgent happening or even an emergency i just hit the start-button or hit spacebar or whatever, the game halts and waits for me.
when there is a difficult part in a game, i can pause and take all the time i need to come up with a good plan and then resume time when i feel ready.
REAL LIFE DOES NOT WORK THAT WAY! you can never pause, there is no such thing. time is a continuous river that can not be contained.
life experience taught me something life-affirming about this though that i would not have expected as a young person and did not know about until i experienced it myself: when you need it the most if you can succeed in remaining unafraid, your brain changes the frame rate and slows down time for you to 1 fps! i experienced this multiple times during skating. i fell and could have easily injured myself seriously but i didn't. time slowed down when i needed it most and in that split second for some reason i found all the time in the world that i needed to come up with a good plan on how to swing my arms to make my upper body rotate in a way where i can absorb the energy that was about to slam into the floor and roll away unharmed like i was sonic the hedgehog.
>reloading
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