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This is an indicator of severe dopamine deficit. Maybe try with a few more games
this post was submitted on 19 May 2025
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I don't really play anymore but occasionally I get the desire to play some Gran Turismo. The last three or four times I've had that urge, both the console and the game required rather large updates. Half an hour later, still not done updating.. desire to play gone with the wind. Rinse and repeat 3 months later.
Which is why I've mostly been a console peasant. PC games are like "So let's spend 5 minutes installing extra shit. And maybe 15 minutes screwing with the settings and fixing compatibility. Oh and are you ready for The Modern Scourge, the Hell that is shader precompilation? We'll be here for a while."
Modern games are a little bit better, but yeah...
I don't know about AAA games, but I play mostly indies and I never have this issue.
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Don't forget to update steam and then update the game first
Curious, how are people with adhd supposed to read a book?
I'm not sure if I have adhd, but I sure do have trouble even trying to read a book.
A quick skim of a wikipedia page or news article is the best I can do.
Find a book that really grabs you. When this happens, I usually don't know how to stop reading it.
Depends. If it's a book I'm not interested in or that I need to read for some reason: hell no. Just repeating the same few sentences over and over until I give up. If it's something I want to read though, and I'm hooked by the plot and curious what happens next, it's another timehole where 5 minutes of reading suddenly last at least an hour.
That's the thing: you don't. After reading the same page a dozen times over and still being unable to comprehend a single damn thing, you eventually get frustrated and give up.
The only time I can get through a book is if it's on a subject I'm really interested in.
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Go into menus and clear the red dot notifications. Get my free daily stuff. Then close out
I remember back in the days of the Commodore 64, games still took 2-3 minutes to load.
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Game: optimizing shaders, please wait
Me: looks at phone
Game: loads into main menu
Me: jams to the main menu music while scrolling for 45 mins
Me: Nah I don't wanna play anymore
I really shouldve started playing _____. Closes X, boots ____ Dang, I was gonna check something on X...
I usually only get this when I'm overworked, a few days of staring at a wall usually fixes it until the next overtime wave.
Or you're trying to mod skyrim for the first time in 10+ years and hyper focus on troubleshooting crash after crash for 36-ish hours.
Just a theoretical scenario...
Are not supposed to just highly optimize our games for 3 hours and then shut the computer off when you get the golden 60-120fps?
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Processing Vulkan Shaders
Life quality improvement tip: disable that from steam download settings.
Processing any shaders...every load time. I guess the upside of spending too much on hardware it doesn't take as long as it could. I definitely ignored Hogwarts Legacy some game evenings cause it did that every time I played, it went away recently though and oddly I finished after being able to play right away.
One of the one games I've finished in like 3 years, which I assume is also an add thing, I don't finish a lot, just try and get my entertainment value and hope for the best after. Currently not wanting to lock into the last mission of cyberpunk 2077 heh.
Okay so its not just me that sits on the last mission of games for no real reason?
So my overpowered PC is so I don't lose focus due to loading times.
Mine loads fast too. Doesn't mean I don't lose interest, just means I lose interest faster. More efficient that way.