 You do not have to scroll social media. You do not have to watch rolling news. Keeping up with news is not the same as mainlining it and wallowing in it. You can see the stats and results later. Watching constantly won’t affect the outcome. If you’re struggling Please take a break and do something nice for yourself. 45 comments
@mattgrayyes Thank Goodness You're here is hilarious. I am always up for some more pod recommendations @mattgrayyes to add to the list:  @mattgrayyes freeways is a hidden gem, I just wish there was more game in the game
@mattgrayyes  @mattgrayyes I also recommend Little Kitty Big City, a very wholesome and cute game that can be a good time sink.  @mattgrayyes Balatro is a drug!!! Today at random I restarted FinalFnatasy VII, so I think I have plenty of distraction, sick child premising.  @akiran_n @mattgrayyes Are there any mods for the PC version to make it not look like blocks? @cameronbosch @mattgrayyes for FF VII? I never played on pc, but I found this forum post for a mod https://forums.qhimm.com/index.php?topic=21616.0 @mattgrayyes I often get absorbed in Cities Skylines entirely on purpose. Edited to add, I highly reccomend thr game Banished which has so much charm and is very easy to get absorbed in, but lacks the mass transit pull of skylines. @Gussy05 for me Foundation does it, it has a nice mix of city planning/herding, plus very intentional small scale architecture @lbenedix @mattgrayyes i've been addicted to factorio lately, i just woke up and after i eat something i'm probably gonna binge it to distract myself @mattgrayyes I started listening to LLE after they appeared on Lateral. Great hosts, brilliant content. I'm slowly making my way through their back-catalogue. Seems I should add 99% Invisible to the queue, too. @mattgrayyes Try Outer Wilds, definitely. It's weird when you start and experience the real gameplay after a while, but at some point you feel free as hell and you start learning about the story and it gets so deep you can't stop. And when you finish it, whether with the whole story or with only bits of it, you can never play it again, it's so frustrating, but it's also what makes this game profoundly unique, a one-of-a-kind experience. Enjoy 👌 @mattgrayyes For podcasts I can strongly recommend Song Exploder. You learn about how songs came into being, and discover new music along the way.  @mattgrayyes adding to the recommendations: - #openTTD for your #TransportTycoon needs  @mattgrayyes for those with some neurospicyness I quite enjoy Wilmots Warehouse  @mattgrayyes I tried playing Balatro. It was so frustrating and I could never get past the 6th Ante Boss Blind no matter what I did. I had to stop playing out of frustration. I've been playing other games, most of them on my Steam Deck and the rest on PC. If you’d like a distraction from the world, here’s a YouTube playlist of mostly other people’s videos. https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLu2ycIN65JoHhq2AFAw_RiG0ACq-g0vr6&si=k34mvv_1tsLg9EsJ @mattgrayyes A person of fine taste, I see. Looks like about 2/3 I've already watched, which means 1/3 new content to consume! (And new creators that weren't already on my list to discover.) @mattgrayyes OMG! Just found your "British humble brags" with Evan Edinger - "Why would I read tabloids? I'm not a racist." 🤣 (And fuck Rupert Murdock with a spork.) @mattgrayyes I've recently gotten addicted to webfishing and satisfactory :woozy_plead: @mattgrayyes Nuts, isn't it? History plays out in the long term, as Mikhail Gorbachev once wisely said in his old age. @mattgrayyes Have to say I am only on here (no other "social" media and seldom watch more than the headlines on real TV (and even that I avoid Who thought 24 hour news channels was a good idea? and who watches them?!? @mattgrayyes my morning new intake today was to read my friend's thread of last night, that's it This is a very good system for me @mattgrayyes News media learned a long time ago that anger and fear are exceptionally profitable emotions. I suppose that’s got a lot to do with how we’ve ended up where we are. Shit, NYT and co probably stand to make a pretty penny publishing “principled opposition” pieces again. Now’s a good time to be angry and afraid, of course, but I’ll be damned if I’m going to give any attention at all to ghouls who profit from those emotions. @mattgrayyes I tried and did the severe mistake of.... going to school today. This awful event comes up everywhere. It doesn't matter. I can't escape this shit. Everywhere I look. Everything I hear. Just pure negativity.  @mattgrayyes@chaos.social I misread the last sentence as "break something and be nice for yourself"  @mattgrayyes I have this overwhelming feeling of dread and shame in my chest I can’t shake. It’ll subside in a couple days, maybe a week or so I hope, but right now nothing is working to distract me. I need to remind myself that we can’t give up, we must keep up the pressure to see the change we want, but the hopelessness right now for me is deafening.  Last week I have been very offline, and I have never felt so good in the past five years. Computers are great and the Internet is a brilliant invention, but damn they can be overwhelming. @mattgrayyes well said. There is just too much of everything. Just too much. It'll be there to consume when we're all ready for it |
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Games I can get absolutely absorbed in by accident:
Balatro (which I got yesterday)
Baldur’s Gate 3
What the golf/car
Thank goodness you’re here
Mini Metro
Freeways
Cities Skylines
Call of Duty
Podcasts I can get absorbed in:
99% Invisible (pick your episode if you want something light hearted)
Tape Notes
Lateral
Let’s learn everything
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