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Post by Phelinofist »

idk seems wrong:

Analysis results

Found 2123 videos in the watch history. Assuming average 40 minutes per video... Recent stats

    0 minutes this year so far
    0 minutes on average per day during last 30 days
All time stats (over last 0 days)

    1415 hours 20 minutes during all time
    Infinity hours on average per day
    Infinity hours on average per week

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Post by TedDoesntTalk »

kiawe_fire wrote: post #11

I might need something that tells me how much time I spend browsing Netflix only to not watch anything. My Netflix habit consists of aspiring to actually watch something as a way to relax before bed, opening the app, scrolling through a bunch of lists, deciding “that looks really good, I should probably save that to watch with my dad”, “this looks good but too heavy for me tonight”, “this looks good but only one seas…

Same problem. I’ve solved it by not watching Netflix unless a friend with similar tastes recommends something to me directly. I end up not watching much Netflix, which I’ve found is healthier for me anyway. A lot of the “browsing “ or watching in bed was escapism.

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Post by yreg »

kiawe_fire wrote: post #11

I might need something that tells me how much time I spend browsing Netflix only to not watch anything. My Netflix habit consists of aspiring to actually watch something as a way to relax before bed, opening the app, scrolling through a bunch of lists, deciding “that looks really good, I should probably save that to watch with my dad”, “this looks good but too heavy for me tonight”, “this looks good but only one seas…

>But movies and video games I have severe analysis paralysis that leads to a lot of browsing and no actual watching or playing.

I suffered of this problem as well and I believe I managed to solve it.

## Netflix

- I only open Netflix when I know what I'm going to watch.

- When I don't know what to watch it means I'm not in the mood for anything I'm currently planning to watch. So I don't open Netflix, I go to YouTube instead.

- When I know what I want to watch (these days I'm binging Mr. Robot) I favourite things that catch my interest while using the app. This is the only time for new content discovery within Netflix.

## Steam

It might sound ridiculous but I've found that to power through I need to approach games like work. I have to dedicate time for it - a weekend, or even take a vacation (I found that the time around the end of the year works best for me). Since it is something I plan, I discuss what to play with my friends and make a decision beforehand.

When the vacation comes, I make myself play at least 8 hours a day on the same regime as if I was working. After a few days I get into it and then I can continue the game in some normal occasional schedule as well. I've been able to enjoy the Mass Effect games in this way the last winter and Witcher 3 the year before that. I don't think I've managed to enjoy a single player storytelling game to such extent in the decade before that.

I try to avoid opening my 500+ game 80% unplayed Steam library. When I don't know what to play, I don't open Steam, I open YouTube and watch some let's play instead.

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Post by least »

pearjuice wrote: post #20
drexlspivey wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Way to reduce any artistic quality of the movie to 0. Could you explain the reason for this? Are movies/shows too boring in normal speed? Are you trying to watch as many as possible?

Too much filler cut scenes and slow dialogue. For example, Suits has notorious slow dialogue and lots of cut scenes hovering over city buildings which add nothing to the script. Watching it at 1.5x makes me miss absolutely nothing and reduces episodes of 45 minutes to roughly half an hour.

You miss almost everything, actually. The only thing you retain by watching it at 1.5x speed is the dialogue and some sort of vague approximation of the visuals. I'm not suggesting that you shouldn't be able to enjoy tv as you do, but you're definitely incorrect to assert you're missing "absolutely nothing."

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Post by z9znz »

Not lately. The quality of content has gone so far down that I would need such a tool for Disney or even Prime.

We have entered the period of series-hell, where content has been algorithmically reduced to the minimum which will make someone come back.

Even re-watching old series is dull. Granted, I still get a chuckle or two from My Name Is Earl (Hulu, and highly recommended if you're American and especially from the south). I'm also trained to lose focus easily, so making me wait a week for an update (or in the case of the latest Star Trek... waiting 1+ years!???) will basically make me forget it even existed.

It feels a bit like a natural finality of television. Anything that could be done has been done. Any story that could be told has been told. They've upped the volume on any aspect - sex, violence, fear, whatever. I am no longer entertained. I've seen reasonable people mutilate people ("Once Upon A Time In Hollywood" I hate you) for no good reason. We might as well be watching people shove grenades up their bums (give porn sites 1-2 years, it will happen).

It all reminds me of a Blackadder scene: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmk4PfuiPVY

This is when we realize that our reality is a farce, perhaps self-created.

You are welcome for this tour to the end times!

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Post by ngetchell »

popotamonga wrote: post #17
kretaceous wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I assume the OP is watching documentaries or likewise.

I watch everything at 1.5 movies seasons etc. Stuff is too slow i just want to absorb it.

Can you define what you mean by absorb? My wife loves the TV on in the background while doing other things. Are you after the same goal?

I'm worried about everything being reduced to "content" like it is all interchangeable.

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Post by game-of-throws »

kiawe_fire wrote: post #11

I might need something that tells me how much time I spend browsing Netflix only to not watch anything. My Netflix habit consists of aspiring to actually watch something as a way to relax before bed, opening the app, scrolling through a bunch of lists, deciding “that looks really good, I should probably save that to watch with my dad”, “this looks good but too heavy for me tonight”, “this looks good but only one seas…

I have a list of movies/TV shows in a txt file. New entries go at the end. I watch them in the order I added them. Zero decision fatigue!

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Post by themodelplumber »

kiawe_fire wrote: post #11

I might need something that tells me how much time I spend browsing Netflix only to not watch anything. My Netflix habit consists of aspiring to actually watch something as a way to relax before bed, opening the app, scrolling through a bunch of lists, deciding “that looks really good, I should probably save that to watch with my dad”, “this looks good but too heavy for me tonight”, “this looks good but only one seas…

This might seem weird but here's how I leverage this:

- 99% of the time it confirms tiredness. However it's also an intriguing moment of interest, built into this time of waning energy. And interests are important to seize on, and work with, as they develop.

- I want to get the most entertaining result, for the time being. The symbol processing part of the mind is back-and-forthing with the physical circumstances of exhaustion, so I have an opportunity to get the needed result via symbolic means.

- I focus only on cover imagery and sort by favorite cover images. I let myself decide not to focus on selecting a movie to watch for the time being. I'm just browsing covers. This is not a time to test the focusing attributes of your mind. Instead, the mind is ready to take you for a ride.

- The images start to bring out imaginings or scenarios in the mind's eye, which build on and depart from what's strictly in the cover image. This is good. You can consider it a lucid, pre-dreaming state as well.

- I frontdoor those moments and inner images [1] for rest, interest-pursuit, and analysis purposes if desired.

Since I started doing that and got good results, I wrote a cron script to randomly select sets of book covers from my Google Play Books and Kindle libraries, and I use those the same way.

Another result is that this connection "browse thumbnails" -> "watch or read that thing" is less strict or even necessary. The covers often don't match the contents anyway, and were not typically created by the director or author. So the reading/viewing often hits like a disappointment. This isn't to say that reading is bad though, and you can do the cover-sorting activity above with textual passages from books, or clips from movies.

1. https://www.friendlyskies.net/maybe/frontdooring-a-new-form-...

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Post by Xeoncross »

kiawe_fire wrote: post #11

I might need something that tells me how much time I spend browsing Netflix only to not watch anything. My Netflix habit consists of aspiring to actually watch something as a way to relax before bed, opening the app, scrolling through a bunch of lists, deciding “that looks really good, I should probably save that to watch with my dad”, “this looks good but too heavy for me tonight”, “this looks good but only one seas…

> 45 minutes later, I’m tired

I think you're tired to start with, just go to sleep. I realized this with myself and others. Some kind of marketing that "unwind and relax" means you have to watch some TV when sleep will actually bring you more enjoyment.

You can always trade those 45 minutes when you wake up for a movie if you actually want to watch one - and you'll enjoy it more.

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