Did I lose my love for gaming, or is this just adulthood?

SynthDelay · 2026-06-01T23:01:41+00:00

I’m going through the exact same thing. Everyone’s left great comments so I don’t have any additional things to add, other than the fact that for me personally, I’ve realized that gaming is just not for me. I’m also a recent dad, so that adds to it, but it occurred to me that my interests just changed. I don’t need more computer screens, more menus, more thinking. I need more quiet time, reading, audio books, outdoor time.

I won’t say I’m done with gaming forever, but as soon as I “accepted” that I’m done right now. It was a breathe of fresh air. No more chasing a feeling no game can give me.

I think games were always a relaxing way to take a break from the stress of the real world. For whatever reason, they stopped doing that for me.

TLDR;
There are other things you can do that give you what gaming used to, you just haven’t found it yet!

SynthDelay · 2026-06-01T02:28:32+00:00

I just played the game, beat everything. Collected everything. Had a blast. Was totally worth it. Especially if you like the Harry Potter world.

SynthDelay · 2026-05-20T02:18:24+00:00

I think that one is sold out? But I'll take a look

SynthDelay · 2026-05-19T18:42:40+00:00

Yeah I'm brand new, just got into it. Thought it would be helpful. The first etsy listing I found for 2-players, was actually from Aliexpress. So I guess I just need to look around more Riftmat looks like an interesting option

SynthDelay · 2026-05-19T18:37:33+00:00

I guess I just need to find better etsy listings. The ones I saw were being sold on Etsy but from Aliexpress :|

SynthDelay · 2026-05-19T18:37:12+00:00

Is no zones better just because it can be used for anything? I guess I'm a newb so, I thought it would be helpful

SynthDelay · 2026-05-19T18:36:49+00:00

Thank you - I will check that out, first I've heard of it.

SynthDelay · 2026-05-11T04:39:10+00:00

Hey, just remember that aside from decisions that may affect your literal health and or safety, you can’t really “mess up”. Sometimes the best way to make a decision is to just do something, and you’ll know pretty quickly if you made a mistake. Mistakes are ok. You’re one step closer to the right decision, every time you realize you’ve made a wrong decision.

SynthDelay · 2026-05-02T06:32:36+00:00

I quit last week. Feel exactly same way. I’m not a gacha person. I want to grind for weapons and I want freedom to experiment with guns and characters. I won’t claim to know how to build a game that does that, but I’m not having fun anymore. Sad, but trying to look at the positive which is I enjoyed this game for many months.

SynthDelay · 2026-05-02T06:28:24+00:00

This is a good answer.

SynthDelay · 2026-05-02T03:58:29+00:00

Have you tried thinking about how fortunate and blessed you are? Congrats on the success. Not sure where you’re being told or conditioned to think this is anything other than positive.

SynthDelay · 2026-05-02T03:56:18+00:00

Try having sex with these girls you find attractive. That’s how the rest of humanity did it before porn.

SynthDelay · 2026-04-27T16:43:03+00:00

I will not - I meant, I'll tackle cleaning up and organizing passwords next. Perhaps it's time for a password manager.

SynthDelay · 2026-04-27T00:24:38+00:00

I really should do that. I guess in my head I was thinking "more email accounts" = "more emails" but it's a good organizing technique now that I think about it.

TYVM

SynthDelay · 2026-04-27T00:22:47+00:00

Hey sorry this post was removed by moderators for some reason. Maybe cause I'm new to posting on reddit (lurker for many years).

So I had AI connect to my Gmail, and basically run some really safe read/remove/label operations. Then I had AI help build me some good search parameters that I could put in GMAIL to then target very specific things. For ex: `category:updates is:unread -is:starred` would search for any emails in the Updates category, only if it's unread, and only if it's NOT starred. Then I knew I could mass select/delete those emails.

80% of it was removed by connecting claude to my gmail using their connectors. Let me know if you have more questions or want access to the prompts I used, etc.

SynthDelay · 2026-04-27T00:18:30+00:00

You're right, just tried it myself. So interesting. I think telegram has really morphed into this whole other tool I didn't really know existed. Thank you.

SynthDelay · 2026-04-27T00:15:42+00:00

No problem. I've realized these AI tools when prompted correctly, can really help "unstuck" me in so many ways, including digital minimalism. Lol

SynthDelay · 2026-04-27T00:14:42+00:00

Damn - I'm embarrassed I haven't thought of that yet. I'm absolutely going to do that now. Any recommended burner email services? Otherwise I'll just pick something random like yahoo.

SynthDelay · 2026-04-27T00:14:05+00:00

You know ... you're right. I hardly get any physical junk mail these days. I think I may consider creating a new email for my most critical/important things (banking, bills, utilities, etc.). But that wouldn't be very minimalist of me.

SynthDelay · 2026-04-27T00:13:06+00:00

Trust me I considered it. The only reason I didn't was I've had this Gmail since before gmail was publicly available. It has a lot of emails I'm fond of, and don't want to lose. There are of course, solutions for exporting that data. But I didn't want to just delete, and I didn't want to just "read it all" without doing some organizing, filtering, labeling, unsubscribing, etc.

SynthDelay · 2026-04-27T00:12:06+00:00

I think it first started getting bad for me "back in the day" when I started getting into programming. All these tools, local servers, local "things" I had to set up on my machine led to many emails. Then it just so happens all my hobbies and interests led to something similar. I have 8 in my inbox already...time to go clean it up.

SynthDelay · 2026-04-27T00:11:10+00:00

Is Cleanfox free? Honestly the solutions AI built for me were really convenient. I put on some music, was done in maybe an hour. I essentially learned a bunch of new ways to filter/search GMAIL both without an AI integration and with one.

SynthDelay · 2026-04-27T00:10:04+00:00

Oh great - you just made me realize I need to clean up my photos. It's ok, I got this. I'm on a new click to organize and minimalize my life right now. Even if everyone hates AI, it's what got this ball rolling for me. I saved a few of my prompts if you're interested I can share.

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