This.

I grew out of video gaming the moment I started to realize that games are a manufactured irreality where nothing you do really matters, because once you quit the game you gained nothing in life, it is a well engineered time sink.

Since my time became a scarce resource and I started to value it, only a rare unique mind twisting puzzle game or short experimental experience might be worth my time, but I will not touch games that eat hundreds of hours of your life for well, nothing at all.

Also, when I was young and had almost no friends, games were a refuge and distraction, now I don’t need them. If at all, now I’d rather play a board game with other people, because it’s wholesome real world interactions and social fun.

With just one simple Zig zag movement

It lets you C more clearly

Yeah, I’m also more on the time blindness overcompensation club.

If I have no time fixed, minutes stretch into hours.

If I have some fixed time scheduled, I live by the clock and will rather be way too early than a little to late.

I have to trick my non ADHD wife to be on time, because if there’s a schedule, I’m the master time keeper.

Being late is just way more stressful and I hate rushing and the anxiety of being too late to the train or some doctor or whatever.

My coping mechanism is to have the anxiety way earlier than other people. Everyone believes I’m amazingly organized.

But what you say IS a kind of technique that hyped for a while in the “speed reading community”, e.g. here is an implementation https://codepen.io/keithwyland/pen/yLyLNz

Or a post about it https://www.reddit.com/r/books/comments/ye6583/whatever_happened_to_spritz_rsvp_kindle_word/

I personally find it exhausting.

Yeah agreed, but that presupposes that the person watching can distinguish someone just babbling and someone who actually is someone qualified to comment on some topic. And I guess the latter kind is a drop in the ocean, because expertise is a limited resource but opinions and bullshit are cheap.

Yeah in the best case it’s just a promotional teaser. Obviously you cannot explain anything non trivial in that amount of time.

Yeah same, I’ve tried many things but I managed to always justify to myself the purchase to make sure I’m not wasting too much money on stuff that will just use space and be unused. Still happens, but could be much much worse. Some things I come back from time to time, when the hyperfocus cycle brings me back to it, like musical instruments. Some things I only ever get the entry level stuff because I know I will move on way before reaching some stage where I need better equipment…

Yeah, useless time sink with lots of flashy distraction. The people who envisioned and built the internet surely did not anticipate it will evolve into THIS.

Ah so that is where this reference is from! I’m too uneducated / young, only played the GBA Generation games

Word. We should start a political party.

I love how someone can unironically not know what I’m talking about, even though I thought I’m a rare weirdo reading blogs via RSS feeds without actively using any social media except for reddit and lemmy

Reaction videos are the worst, in any form. I’m waiting for the day until there’s a reaction video loop referring to nothing than other reacts in circle and nobody knows what the actual underlying video was. The recursive reaction from hell.

That is what I thought looks like those speed reading techniques, but by force. So annoying. Not sure the “without loss of comprehension” is so true, all that I read says that speed reading is pseudoscience

This, 100%

I can’t get over how it feels like it wants to take over my senses.

I also hate voice messages. I ingest content on my terms and at my pace, thank you very much. And both rambling voice messages and short, absurdly dense but still shallow videos both disrespect me in different ways. One is usually too slow for my attention, the other too fast.

There are no videos or podcasts that are addicting to me, I like reading and writing more than listening. My ADHD brain can’t listen unless you talk to me in the right way to get and hold my focus, i.e. interesting information presented at the right pace.

Reading lets me be me - I can skim it, I can re-read it, I can find it later.

They should create vertical TVs. It’s insane, but at the same time, it would be actually less wasteful.

Being forced to watch hours of vertical videos on a horizontal screen is probably one of the rings of hell.

When one of your relatives films a family event for half an hour in portrait mode and later shows everyone on the TV.

If it is done in some tense scene in an action movie, it’s fine.

If it’s your default mode, it loses any kind of narrative effect and is just hectic + cheaper because you don’t need to many takes and just chop good pieces together -> faster and lower effort.

I have nothing against fast cuts as an actual artistic device.

Yep, that could be me!

Below the infinite trash stream of the algorithm there is still some actually good content in sane formats that does not taste like greasy mind fast food.

Fair point, clothing shorts are good shorts. The summer beginning is marked by me switching from jeans to shorts!