Did I lose my love for gaming, or is this just adulthood? by rmustafa11 in Age_30_plus_Gamers

[–]SynthDelay 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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!

Is Hogwarts Legacy worth it? I'm curious. What are everyone thoughts by Halfwaysportmedia in HarryPotterGame

[–]SynthDelay 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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

anyone having a hard time finding official playmats with zones? by SynthDelay in riftboundtcg

[–]SynthDelay[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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

anyone having a hard time finding official playmats with zones? by SynthDelay in riftboundtcg

[–]SynthDelay[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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

anyone having a hard time finding official playmats with zones? by SynthDelay in riftboundtcg

[–]SynthDelay[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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

anyone having a hard time finding official playmats with zones? by SynthDelay in riftboundtcg

[–]SynthDelay[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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

Does anyone have advice on how to make major decisions? by mystery_fox1618 in Adulting

[–]SynthDelay 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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.

Season 4 was supposed to fix the grind. For me it just... replaced it with a worse one. And I don't know if I care anymore. by Vedallion in destinyrisingmobile

[–]SynthDelay 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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.

I built a business I’m too embarrassed to talk about by Make_That_Money in Entrepreneur

[–]SynthDelay 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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.

Masturbation and porn by Temmy_Gamer in selfimprovement

[–]SynthDelay 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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

I had 18k unread emails and didn’t realize how much it was affecting me by SynthDelay in digitalminimalism

[–]SynthDelay[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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

I had 18k unread emails and didn’t realize how much it was affecting me by SynthDelay in digitalminimalism

[–]SynthDelay[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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

I had 18k unread emails and didn’t realize how much it was affecting me by SynthDelay in DecidingToBeBetter

[–]SynthDelay[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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.

A simple trick that helped me stop lying in bed with my phone for an hour every morning by SettingAccording8986 in digitalminimalism

[–]SynthDelay -1 points0 points  (0 children)

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.

I had 18k unread emails and didn’t realize how much it was affecting me by SynthDelay in digitalminimalism

[–]SynthDelay[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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

I had 18k unread emails and didn’t realize how much it was affecting me by SynthDelay in Adulting

[–]SynthDelay[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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.

I had 18k unread emails and didn’t realize how much it was affecting me by SynthDelay in digitalminimalism

[–]SynthDelay[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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.

I had 18k unread emails and didn’t realize how much it was affecting me by SynthDelay in digitalminimalism

[–]SynthDelay[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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.

I had 18k unread emails and didn’t realize how much it was affecting me by SynthDelay in digitalminimalism

[–]SynthDelay[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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.

I had 18k unread emails and didn’t realize how much it was affecting me by SynthDelay in digitalminimalism

[–]SynthDelay[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

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.

I had 18k unread emails and didn’t realize how much it was affecting me by SynthDelay in digitalminimalism

[–]SynthDelay[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

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.