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I made a game you can play without anyone knowing (no visuals/sound)

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Re: I made a game you can play without anyone knowing (no visuals/sound)

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Essentially an exercise in minimalism, quite cool. I want it, buy I'm an Android user. However, I also really have to wonder: "I needed a distraction" - smartphones have apparently conditioned us to consider boredom absolutely intolerable. I'm note sure that's a good thing.

Well actually, humans have disliked boredom since forever. Before the advent of phones, people would read, drink, or otherwise cause chaos to entertain themselves (these things still happen of course, phones are just yet another source of entertainment). Think about all those times before you had a phone that you would read the ingredients to hand soap while on the toilet!

>>smartphones have apparently conditioned us to consider boredom absolutely intolerable. I'm note sure that's a good thing.

>humans have disliked boredom since forever.

Maybe I'm unusual, but if I go too many days without spending a significant fraction of my time doing things I dislike, then my mental health starts to decline. Specifically, I start to lack motivation and drive with the result that I spend less time pursuing and more time procrastinating (or resting when I don't need rest).

(Doing something risky works just as well as doing something painful or uncomfortable in keeping me out of this particular bad mental place. It doesn't have to be a risk of something terrible happening: it only needs to feel not totally safe in some juicy way, not to be objectively dangerous.)

Also, I wish I knew what I just wrote when I was still a young man.

Re: I made a game you can play without anyone knowing (no visuals/sound)

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OP: 1. Use “you’re“, not “your”, for “you are”. It is wrong in the first “screen” image in your App Store listing. 2. Use an ellipsis — three dots, “…”, never two dots. This is in two images in your listing.

Ellipsis also has its own dedicated Unicode code point if you want to get fancy, (U+2026): …

Re: I made a game you can play without anyone knowing (no visuals/sound)

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Essentially an exercise in minimalism, quite cool. I want it, buy I'm an Android user. However, I also really have to wonder: "I needed a distraction" - smartphones have apparently conditioned us to consider boredom absolutely intolerable. I'm note sure that's a good thing.

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Re: I made a game you can play without anyone knowing (no visuals/sound)

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> You just sit here, loosing brain cells in seconds. At least, that’s how things where before Tik!

Am I the only one that can’t help seeing irony here? Search for a constant attention and distraction may not lead to a better mental condition, if not making worse as subsequents boring times will be even more boring.

Here’s some alternatives some phoneless can engage while staring at a speaker:

- imagine another life for the speaker

- mentally check your grocery list

- build inner abs, perineum and other hidden muscles

- wank yourself from a hidden hole in you pocket

- think what where the outcome and what you could have done differently in previous social interactions

- my favorite : deeply concentrate on all noises, voices sounds that does not come from the speaker itself.

Also congratulations, AFAIK this is a novel game ideas. Being bored leaded here to creativity.

Re: I made a game you can play without anyone knowing (no visuals/sound)

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The app looks nice and the concept sounds interesting. But this worries me a little bit: "I also needed a distraction" - is it really a good idea to treat our brains this way? Why do we need distractions all the time? Why is boredom so intolerable? Also, you can simply just think about stuff, you don't have to feed your compulsion loop.

Thanks for bringing this up, and I completely agree. Needing a distraction all the time isn't healthy, and I was thinking about this while making the app too. The way I look at it though, we should be intentional with our time, making space for time to do nothing / meditate.

However, sometimes when we are stuck in a boring situation, it's less about being meaningfully free and more about feeling stuck with nothing to do.

In this kind of a senario, Tik! would be a better option and less stimulating than something like instagram for example, since although your mind is busy, it's not overstimulating your brain with information.

Just my thoughts on the topic, please let me know if you agree or have anything to add on :)

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