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I highly recommend reading the book “Flow” if you’re looking for that thing that makes every day enjoyable. In addition to exploring why people love games and other high skill activities, it discusses the idea that we can learn how to turn every day tasks into activities that evoke the same reward centers. It doesn’t just dive into “people like games”, or “people like achieving hard things”, but it delves into why, a…
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I highly recommend reading the book “Flow” if you’re looking for that thing that makes every day enjoyable. In addition to exploring why people love games and other high skill activities, it discusses the idea that we can learn how to turn every day tasks into activities that evoke the same reward centers. It doesn’t just dive into “people like games”, or “people like achieving hard things”, but it delves into why, a…
Name the author please!
I highly recommend reading the book “Flow” if you’re looking for that thing that makes every day enjoyable. In addition to exploring why people love games and other high skill activities, it discusses the idea that we can learn how to turn every day tasks into activities that evoke the same reward centers. It doesn’t just dive into “people like games”, or “people like achieving hard things”, but it delves into why, a…
The simple and even tedious things in life are worth embracing and engaging in whole heartedly and with all of your attention.
This article speaks to me a lot. I played FF7 Remake when it released on PS+ in ‘21 thinking I didn’t enjoy JRPG’s. From there i played the entire collection - the ps1 version, crisis core, advent children, and then remake again. Those months were fantastic - either playing, listening to the soundtrack, thinking about materia combinations. And it’s likely to consume another 3 months of my life when Rebirth releases.
FF VI and Chrono Trigger (both SNES) are two gems which I would definitely replay if I had the time. It is easy to get lost the pretty graphics of modern games, but to me well written story and characters are the best part of JRPGs
The thing that unlocked it for me was taking a save state at pretty much every "scene" or big story beat. A lot of these games lack a good way of tracking where you are in the story, and picking up/putting down a deep game in short increments can be hard to get reoriented, so I got in a habit of loading one or two saves back when I restart playing after a break. Replaying a minute or so is usually more than enough to remember what's going on and what I need to do next.
My 2015 PC started dying, requiring BIOS resets and other weirdness like suddenly not outputting basic VGA graphics. So I finally upgraded to an AMD 7800X3D, nvidia 4070 12GB, 64GB DDR5-6400 RAM. All to play Factorio! :D Apart from a strange error where Linux will crash if I have 2 DIMMs in the motherboard, it's been a great upgrade. (I'm going to submit bug reports to Fedora, but I'm assuming some combo of the MSI B…
I’m struggling in the worst way to get into any game at all. I have free time. I don’t feel guilt being “unproductive” with that time. But nothing feels motivating to continue with. In my teens and 20s it felt amazing to finish homework and have a late night ahead of me to really sink my teeth into an RPG or something. But for the past decade that magic is just gone. I don’t want to declare “I’ve grown and changed an…
That's Go for me and has been for the past 3-4 years (with varying intensity), recently got a Japanese floor goban, and it's just a pleasure to sit in front of it to study, understand the nuances, experience professional games bith new and old. What a beautiful game
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FF VI and Chrono Trigger (both SNES) are two gems which I would definitely replay if I had the time. It is easy to get lost the pretty graphics of modern games, but to me well written story and characters are the best part of JRPGs
My favorite thing about picking up a retro emulation handheld is using it to play through these old games. It's more like an ebook reader in my mind than a game console when I load it up just with story-dense RPG/strategy/adventure games instead of arcade and action games. The thing that unlocked it for me was taking a save state at pretty much every "scene" or big story beat. A lot of these games lack a good way of…
An alternative is install something like retroarch on your smartphone and use a telescopic controller.