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Kajiimagi

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I don’t mind learning a complex game but I’m no longer willing to play shit I don’t really have that much interest in just due to FOMO. Also strangely have no interest in multiplayer at all now or even much in competitive stuff. Raiding in an mmo sounds horrid to me with my current life requirements.

Partly why I haven’t been as active with POE the past few years. And plus there’s 100s of single player games. for better or worse, I spend a lot more time playing shit that apes the SNES era the most now.
yeah pretty much me too. It's why I dropped Clair Obscur 33. I spent 2 days getting turned around , following the lights into a fucking circle and said fuck this. Playing Tainted Grail now and having a blast. I had an EQ problem for a few years and I have not gone back to a multiplayer game since. I need something I can pause cuz the wife don't get it. Also since the noggin surgery I am on a lot of drugs that cause me to confuse easy. Yay getting old is fun! NOT
 
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Agraza

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If I'm not super into something, I often bounce at the first feeling of resistance or effort. It's my ADHD and I call it gaming ADD and it's gotten worse as I've gotten older (47 next month). Many complex games I would have absolutely loved I can't even begin to get into (ie Paradox 4x games) and I finish maybe 1 game a year, if that. Without a tighter focus the possibilities of a game drown me and cause anxiety (wrong word for it, but it fits) and often I won't even start a game because 'i'll get stuck at this point, or this thing about it will be dumb, or...' and it's kinda nonsensical. This leads me to games that I can just hop in and do 1-2 things and then bounce like a game of Rocket League or a round of Spell Brigade, or a whispers cache in Diablo IV.

It's why in games like WoW I need the social component and structured raiding schedule to get me to play consistently. The social component gives me a reason to power through any resistance.
some of this resonates with me. allegedly microplastic can exacerbate ADHD symptoms. we may be making ourselves more ADD.