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

in many video games i can save and load whenever i want or at least at several points throughout the game. when i make a mistake or if one of my decisions on what to next was bad, i can go back in time to a point in which i did not make the mistake and choose differently.

REAL LIFE IS NOT LIKE THAT EITHER! unfortunately nothing like this exists in reality. mistakes are permanent. you can not go back and relieve your childhood without doing the mistakes.

maybe that's why video games are fun, because they don't matter and mistakes are meaningless in them.


>expectation of things being instant

a few years ago i remember being annoyed that when i try to manifest something, that i can't just do it in 10 minutes but there are just tons of points in which i can't continue and have to wait for someone or something else to occur and just can't continue and that i have to interrupt.

so when my though processes are used to video games where everything is instant and plans can be implemented in seconds, i guess i got in the habit of believing everything can be instant in reality too and some kind of expectation or entitlement became the basis of my though process that HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH REALITY.

everything is so slow and tedious in reality. ordering something on amazon the moment i needed it and then having to wait a week for it to arrive often interrupted projects i did and i could never pick them back up once the thing arrived. this is almost shameful to admit but waiting for delivery has on occasion taken the wind out of my sails until i got used to how slow everything is outside of video games.

one more thing on reloading not being possible IRL:

that's one reason why i like using a paper system. in a system on the computer i can just re-arrange words and sentences endlessly until it is perfect but when i use paper, i have to like what i write enough to commit it to paper. sometimes i tear a paper appart and start a new one when i come up with a better way but more often then not i make a rough version 1 and then a way better version 2. that makes the system i am using to bring something into reality a microcosm of reality where i already have to adhere to the specifications of reality.

I've got this problem where I dedicate a lot of time to one skill or hobby over a certain number of weeks or months, and then I'll switch over to another hobby and do the same thing. But then when I come back to the first hobby, I've forgotten basically everything I learned, or lost whatever articulation I had with a particular skill. It's like starting over every time I try to return to a beloved hobby.

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> I've got this problem where I dedicate a lot of time to one skill or hobby over a certain number of weeks or months, and then I'll switch over to another hobby and do the same thing. But then when I come back to the first hobby, I've forgotten basically everything I learned, or lost whatever articulation I had with a particular skill. It's like starting over every time I try to return to a beloved hobby.


i also noticed this, mostly with computer stuff i only do every so often. there is something i have been doing about that, maybe it can apply to some of your situations. i learned this from the programmers, apparently they have long known about this.

whenever i learn something new that i am sure i will have forgotten by the next time i could use it, i write the most important things in a text file.

i have a specific folder called DOCUMENTATION and all those text files go in there so i always know where to look later to see if maybe i made such a file. let's say i am learning the commandline-based videoeditor called ffmpeg. the commands i am using, i am collecting in this textfile knowing already i will have probably forgotten them next time. so i am writing little tutorials tailored to myself and what i expect to be doing with whatever i am writing about. if this was today and i was learning the program, i would create the textfile

2026-04 ffmpeg.txt

the reason for the date (2026-04) in the beginning of the file name is that way i can kind of remember when it was. when i vaguely remember that i did this half a year ago, this helps me find the file the moment i am looking for it. i sort by name and can look at all the little files i wrote chronologically and since it aren't that many, it is easy to find. since i also include the name of the program (ffmpeg) search function / filter function will also find it.

another thing i do is trying to tell one person (or one imageboard since i don't know many people) vaguely about it or maybe even teach one person who might like to hear about it a few things about it and then not only do i learn it better, there is someone else who benefits who might later remind me or tell me something cool about it or about something similar.

with more athletic, tool-based or physical stuff i noticed i don't get worse, i noticed when i am inactive in one area i don't get worse at it, i get better but slower and what i have to relearn is the speed at which i am doing it. same thing with talking. since i am hermit and don't talk to people all that often, i get very slow at talking irl and building sentences but after a while of talking with someone, i regain the speed.

HOPE THAT HELPS YOU BIG BOI, DON'T BE EATING CANDY NO MORE, CANDY IS POISON UNFORTUNATELY AND YOU HAVE TO WALK IT OFF WHILE ONLY EATING CUCUMBER AND BANANA. that bird better be knocking all the candy out of your fingers before you can eat them!