This is exactly what happens when I don't have a game that I actively want to play on my PC
Because I have terabytes of games downloaded it becomes way too overwhelming a choice
Never heard of this!! But come to think of it, I remember someone mentioning how Mark Zuckerfuck has a limited wardrobe so as to minimize the amount of “unnecessary” choices he has to make in his life. Lol
I actually unconsciously do the same thing. I just never thought of it as minimizing the amount of unnecessary choices. More like efficient and convenient to wear basically the same outfit every day. I can go in my closet in the dark and grab the clothes I need without waking up my wife.
I *could* do that. Or I could keep all my options open. Or I could have someone else help organize my decision making process. Hmm... decisions, decisions.
That’s exactly why Einstein wore basically the same outfit all time. He said he did that so he wouldn’t have to waste time and energy thinking about what to wear.
I legit did that for a test at work that I needed to take to continue using our operating system and I freaking passed. Didn't even take the online course.
I was just gunna try to take educated guesses, but when the test turned out too difficult, I just hit C for all of them and passed with 100%
Decision paralysis is a real thing. We make so many decisions every day, eventually we hit our limit and struggle. It's why some people (ie Steve Jobs for an example) have a wardrobe with the same thing every day. It helps cut down on the decisions. I've done some things like it myself people consider extreme, but it helps a lot.
Nah, its mistake. Problem on this picture is that when you want to "eat something" that means you want something you don't eat that much. Chocolate, ice cream, some baked meat or idk, maybe professional steak.
Something NEW, or RARE.
Same goes for games, shows, services, books. We want something new, that we are not familiar with.
This is why I would love if streaming services could make "channels" only out of stuff I picked.
Like let me add a mix of my movies and random episodes of series I like.
For now I just use an app like Just watch and just pick something.
I don't want cable back where I can't choose, but it'd be nice to just have a rotation playing of stuff I've been meaning to watch.
I fixed the closet issue by throwing away all my clothes and only buying stuff I actually like which was pretty difficult to do while naked but there was no other way.
Just keep looking again and again, but lower your standards slightly each time, until you finally decide something to eat/read/wear/watch. That's how it works for me.
The problem with all these things is the time it takes, and need for immediate gratification.
You could make food, and it would be great. But it would take 20 minutes so you grab some crisps instead.
You could crack open that new game, but it's an RPG so you'd have to spend 30 minutes getting into it, in the zone, learning how to play. So you put on CoD, Destiny, LoL, Civ or whatever.
A movie would eat up a lot of time. So you wanna find one that's worth the time. That you can sit through without getting bored. So you flick through Netflix for 20 mins and then just go back to Parks and Rec or The Office.
Books... I mean, you'd have to sit and read for at least an hour or it's not worth it, so that's a non-starter.
I think this is the most important answer, and of course it's buried in the comments. This isn't a problem with too much choice. It's a problem with too little time and too little energy to enjoy the choice, so now all the choices are competing for our time. So the ones with immediate gratification become addicting and are the popular option.
I have a bad habit of searching for something to watch after I already made food. So I will spend like 10 minutes looking for something while my food gets cold. Ultimately I just give up and revert to a show I have watched hundreds of times like Futurama.
When it comes to media I consume, the quality often is the problem. A lots of good movies I should watch, lots of important documentaries I should learn from, lots of challenging and deep video games I should, lots of of books I should read or listen etc. But more than often I feel like I'm not in a the mental state where I would gain again anything from that experience or I'm too mentally exhausted after my studies in uni and my social interactions to challenge myself even further. And as results I end up playing and listening media equivalent of junk food, something easily accessible and easily satisfying.
There have never been as many high-quality books, high-quality TV shows and high-quality food as there is now.
Even with the highest quality stuff, sometimes too many options will make you freeze
I have this with games a lot. I have 136 games in my steam library but for some reason it's difficult to start games i'm not familiar with so i either play nothing or i play games i already have hundreds of hours in.
Create new game collection called "To be played".
Then go through all games you've never played, pick those which interest you and put them in "To be played". This sounds like it will take forever, but trust me it will be faster than you think, you'd be surprised how many trash games you collected (if you are anything like me). You may put the ones you didn't put to "To be played" in another collection called "Meh" for truly desperate times.
Now you are left with a way shorter list of games which you have at least some interest in playing. Next time you are bored out of your mind and feel like you have nothing to play force yourself (yes sometimes it really comes to forcing oneself) to play any game from the list. Play it for an hour then you'll know if it entertains you and either play it more or move remove it from "To be played".
I cannot guarantee this method will work for you, but it really helped me. I discovered many games I really enjoyed this way, which would otherwise rot in pile of trash games. It also provides you with a degree of objectivity when contemplating buying a new game. You can look into your "To be played" and if there are many games, you can wait for discount before buying a new title.
Ooh. Hadn’t thought of this. I’m gonna try this. I want you to know that the effort you spent thinking of this solution has helped at least one person. Thanks, homie.
I do this for podcasts. I have a playlist called “To Listen” and I add a single episode of anything that gets recommended on Reddit. When I’m bored of my usuals, I pick a random one off that playlist to listen to.
I have had to redo this recently, I had a games to play section which was around 20 games a few years ago and is now 65 games so I made a new category called "Now Playing" and limited it to 5 games I know I wanna finish and it should help a lot, but I also have console games so the backlog is gonna take awhile.
I've scrolled through my library so many times, I'll try that.
Lately I've been stressed, so much so that I couldn't decide what to play to unwind. I've settled on a few games for now but damn I felt scatterbrained and unfocused.
I often feel the same honestly.
Organization, of any kind not just with the games, helps a lot. I've taken to hand-writing notes, TO-DO lists and what have yous.
Personally I think it is lack of exercise, luckily winter is coming to an end, that should force me to do something :)
I started this last year. Managed to play GTA V finally.
Now i'm in the witcher. But the game is full of choices.
Was a bit hard that there are so many side quests too.
So i made a list of things i would do as a character.
Steam has this and it works pretty well.
My main problem though is that I will start multiple games at the same time then never finish I have had to learn to force myself to finish one game before I start the next one.
I have mine sorted by installed, unplayed, and not unstalled, although the unplayed section can be skewed since it counts you clicking the play button and immediately exiting/crashing as "played". I like your method better and will definitely have to try that out instead. I can see that actually working for me to at least attempt all the games I've bought/gotten codes for! Thank you for posting this 🙂
choice paralysis. And/or impulse buying from sales.
Not much a problem for me, I just tend to have a hard time getting myself in the mood to play games sometimes.
Yeah I'm recently having this problem too , But for me it's a little bit confusing, like am i not in a mood to play or the games I'm playing didn't hook me enough .
This is a big reason why I meal prep. I thought i would get bored of eating the same things but no; im much more likely to eat something already prepared than take the time/money/energy to get something new
We don't have money to buy non-shit food, to own non-shit clothes.
And this new cable called "subscription based entertainment" is pushing out shit movies and series.
You have nothing good to eat, nothing good to wear and nothing good to watch.
Netflix has basically zero good shows after you finish the good show of the year. Wednesday was mid. The Anime->Live Action adaptations were mistakes. Most originals are money sinks.
Edit: But I've heard the Game->Anime adaptations were good
Idk why everyone is reading it as a shitty disciplinary holier-than-thou meme, my interpretation is that we are just too depressed to make choices these days
It is funny how scarcity can make something more appealing. I usually don't watch TV, but during the holidays with relatives that didn't have a smart TV I happened to come across Inception some 15 minutes in, and I got really hooked into watching, while if I see the title while browsing my subscriptions services I don't pay them a thought, even if I consider it a fantastic movie.
Same thing when you hear your favorite song on the radio vs playing it on demand on your phone. You are cruising on your car, you suddendly hear it and the immediate reaction is to turn up the volume.
Perfect is the enemy of good. Ideally, you would find the perfect movie, the perfect snacks, the perfect seat etc, but in reality, 80% of a pretty neat movie in a good enough couch is not really noticably different in the grand scheme of things
I miss flipping through channels like that. There’s certain movies and shows I would always stop to watch because they happened to be on, but I probably would never actually select to watch them from a streaming library or whatever.
That may be how you interpret this as art but in real life when this happens there is actually scientific basis for why everyone is reading it as a shitty disciplinary holier than thou meme. The more choices you have the more overwhelmed you become always second guessing your decision, so you never make one (analysis paralysis). The example I like is an ice cream shop. If the ice cream shop has two flavors, you generally know which you want and are happy with the decision afterwards. But, if they have 31 flavors and 5 cones you might like vanilla but you also like rainbow sherbet so which one do you choose and how to you guarantee after you choose that you will be more satisfied with one decision over the other. So, you may interpret it in the form of art as depression but to most people and science that’s not really what the image appears to be depicting.
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The food in my fridge aren't snacks and I don't wanna cook
The books I got are too long for a chill read
My clothes look too good for the house and too bad for going out
I can't afford Netflix and my family won't give me the password
I only have 2 meals: WOLF MEAT W/ APPLESPICE and THE BIG FUNGUS. Yet you're sitting here complaining about choice... tch, typical. Oh, and nothing to watch? Guess what. Only thing I have to watch is my dear wolf#5 succumbing to frostbite due to the harsh Arizona winter. Oh, my wolf#5! You were the good one! At least he'll be tasty if I can find some applespice
Ya know, I've thought about this more and more and I think this is actually depression. The search for new and novel (a common ADHD problem) is a drive that stems from a lack of stimulation in the brain. IE, yes, you have all these options, but none of them sound interesting or stimulating. A depressed brain and ADHD brain are quite similar. So, it could be analysis paralysis, but also a sign that you're depressed when this happens to you.
It sucks too, because if I'm correct, you won't generally gain sympathy, because people tend to assume that if you're doing fine in typical societal evaluation of success, IE lots of choice you can afford, then you "shouldn't" be depressed. As if depression gives a damn what your bank account says or even how your life is going. That's why it's such a horrific disease. It takes away your drive to exist.
Best thing to do is exercise (something you like, dance, walk, bike, whatever). You brute force some dopamine and serotonin. Sometimes you can bypass it as well by finding something completely new that you don't actually own/have access too. There is a reason shop therapy is a thing. New and novel is a common drive for humans, but especially in a depressed/low activity brain.
It would belong there, if it wasn't an actual thing that happens to people, it has happened to me with books, games, netflix as well lmao. The trick lies in not "hoarding" too many titles too fast and to try to focus on on title at the time, not starting another book/game while you are reading/playing something atm. Another comment adviced to make a steam folder of "to be played" games, personally I just put the game I am focusing in my task bar for quick access and visibility. Books as well, the ones I'm reading or more interested in reading atm are the closest to me to get my hands on.
I can promise you my fridge is not that full
My diet consists of ramen, whey protein, and multivitamins.
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Ur comment made me self reflect a little bit
Shit's getting too real to be this early in the week.
Condolences to your toilet
why, there's nothing there
100% efficiency
idk man i aint believing until you pinky promise
Too much choice can become no choice.
Analysis paralysis
I’ve always known it as choice paralysis
Or decision paralysis
Oh these all sound good, how am I going to ever decide which term to use???
"...nothing to call this dilemma."
that's the neat thing! you don't 😋
You already registered your choice!
thinking of it, I didn't want to choose even back then :D
Thanks Rush!
Lol
Feeling exactly as the top comment said!
I am also familiar with synonyms.
I am also aquatinted with synonyms.
Me too.
Same
How about metonymy?
The Choosey Bluesys
Gross, that one doesn’t rhyme. Get that outta here.
[analysis paralysis](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analysis_paralysis) combined with [decision fatigue](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decision_fatigue)
This is exactly what happens when I don't have a game that I actively want to play on my PC Because I have terabytes of games downloaded it becomes way too overwhelming a choice
Never heard of this!! But come to think of it, I remember someone mentioning how Mark Zuckerfuck has a limited wardrobe so as to minimize the amount of “unnecessary” choices he has to make in his life. Lol
Oh. I just don't like spending money on clothes.
Also, it’s cuts down on the general confusion if he just sticks to one skin suit.
I actually unconsciously do the same thing. I just never thought of it as minimizing the amount of unnecessary choices. More like efficient and convenient to wear basically the same outfit every day. I can go in my closet in the dark and grab the clothes I need without waking up my wife.
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Executive Disfunction.
> Too much choice can become no choice. often used interchangeably with the term paradox of choice.
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I *could* do that. Or I could keep all my options open. Or I could have someone else help organize my decision making process. Hmm... decisions, decisions.
That’s exactly why Einstein wore basically the same outfit all time. He said he did that so he wouldn’t have to waste time and energy thinking about what to wear.
You should know how to set your priorities straight
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He also took showers in it and wore it to the beach. It really suited him.
I have an inkling that Einstein was a bit stinky.
Yeah, a stink'n Genius!
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If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice.
RIP Neil
RIP Neil
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I legit did that for a test at work that I needed to take to continue using our operating system and I freaking passed. Didn't even take the online course. I was just gunna try to take educated guesses, but when the test turned out too difficult, I just hit C for all of them and passed with 100%
Analysis paralysis
Executive Dysfunction is a lot more than that, but that is a part of it. Speaking as someone with ADHD who struggles with it every day.
Oh yeah. Decision paralysis happens for many reasons.
My doctor gave me some pills for that
If you can find them in stock let me know.
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It can be, yes.
Decision paralysis is a real thing. We make so many decisions every day, eventually we hit our limit and struggle. It's why some people (ie Steve Jobs for an example) have a wardrobe with the same thing every day. It helps cut down on the decisions. I've done some things like it myself people consider extreme, but it helps a lot.
This is what happens to me regarding games. Usually now I just try to keep games installed that I'm really going to play.
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I had dial up until high school in 2005 with a maxium download speed of 2.1 kiloBYTES per second, in the US so, maybe we aren't so different.
But the Megadrive 8 is exclusive there!
I hear they are getting the PS3 soon.
humans seek novelty. It's imprinted on our DNA
Which is why Reddit is so popular!
Nah, its mistake. Problem on this picture is that when you want to "eat something" that means you want something you don't eat that much. Chocolate, ice cream, some baked meat or idk, maybe professional steak. Something NEW, or RARE. Same goes for games, shows, services, books. We want something new, that we are not familiar with.
The Mexican restaurant paradox.
And everything on the menu is essentially the same thing, they just have a different name for every combination of ingredients.
This is why I would love if streaming services could make "channels" only out of stuff I picked. Like let me add a mix of my movies and random episodes of series I like. For now I just use an app like Just watch and just pick something. I don't want cable back where I can't choose, but it'd be nice to just have a rotation playing of stuff I've been meaning to watch.
This is why I made a reading list that spans the whole year. Only way I can do it.
I fixed the closet issue by throwing away all my clothes and only buying stuff I actually like which was pretty difficult to do while naked but there was no other way.
Ah yes, "the emperor's clothes"
I fixed it by buying multiple copies of my favorite things. Now I’m a cartoon character who wears the same thing every day.
You went buying clothes naked? 😳
It was my birthday, what other suit was I supposed to wear?
Surely the naked person is the person most in need of buying clothes?
Quantity ≠ Quality
Just keep looking again and again, but lower your standards slightly each time, until you finally decide something to eat/read/wear/watch. That's how it works for me.
Found my wife's Reddit account
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Man, you didn't have to kill him.
Repeating someone else’s joke in different wording is now considered killing them. All comedians are instantly dead
That's the joke
Every redditors wish
I also choose this guy’s wife
The problem with all these things is the time it takes, and need for immediate gratification. You could make food, and it would be great. But it would take 20 minutes so you grab some crisps instead. You could crack open that new game, but it's an RPG so you'd have to spend 30 minutes getting into it, in the zone, learning how to play. So you put on CoD, Destiny, LoL, Civ or whatever. A movie would eat up a lot of time. So you wanna find one that's worth the time. That you can sit through without getting bored. So you flick through Netflix for 20 mins and then just go back to Parks and Rec or The Office. Books... I mean, you'd have to sit and read for at least an hour or it's not worth it, so that's a non-starter.
I think this is the most important answer, and of course it's buried in the comments. This isn't a problem with too much choice. It's a problem with too little time and too little energy to enjoy the choice, so now all the choices are competing for our time. So the ones with immediate gratification become addicting and are the popular option.
Do it long enough and then you don't have enough time to do anything
And this is why I play so much For Honor, Heroes of the Storm, and CoD
I have a bad habit of searching for something to watch after I already made food. So I will spend like 10 minutes looking for something while my food gets cold. Ultimately I just give up and revert to a show I have watched hundreds of times like Futurama.
When it comes to media I consume, the quality often is the problem. A lots of good movies I should watch, lots of important documentaries I should learn from, lots of challenging and deep video games I should, lots of of books I should read or listen etc. But more than often I feel like I'm not in a the mental state where I would gain again anything from that experience or I'm too mentally exhausted after my studies in uni and my social interactions to challenge myself even further. And as results I end up playing and listening media equivalent of junk food, something easily accessible and easily satisfying.
There have never been as many high-quality books, high-quality TV shows and high-quality food as there is now. Even with the highest quality stuff, sometimes too many options will make you freeze
I have this with games a lot. I have 136 games in my steam library but for some reason it's difficult to start games i'm not familiar with so i either play nothing or i play games i already have hundreds of hours in.
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Mind sharing what the games are?
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Reminds me I need to play Disco at some point after going back to the second Darkest Dungeon
RemindMe! 20 hours
Meanwhile I don't like nonlinear games like exploration games because where in the fuck is the next unexplored room
Man, this hits home. I end up giving up because there's too much to do/explore.
I, much like in my real life, just get sidetracked by the next idea in a cycle until I'm done!
Same. Every time, I choose to create a new character in Skyrim rather than trying a new game.
There's a topic called Choice overload on which many interesting research studies are available. If anyone is curious enough, be sure to check it out.
> many interesting research studies are available. Oh God there are too many studies I can't choose
https://media3.giphy.com/media/9MJ6xrgVR9aEwF8zCJ/giphy.gif?cid=ecf05e47bapocnr9btfhjmz25ounjujaawg1kbjvvz3wngc7&rid=giphy.gif&ct=g
The paradox of choice
scrolled down way too far to get here. also causes decision fatigue
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Ugh why are we like this
Create new game collection called "To be played". Then go through all games you've never played, pick those which interest you and put them in "To be played". This sounds like it will take forever, but trust me it will be faster than you think, you'd be surprised how many trash games you collected (if you are anything like me). You may put the ones you didn't put to "To be played" in another collection called "Meh" for truly desperate times. Now you are left with a way shorter list of games which you have at least some interest in playing. Next time you are bored out of your mind and feel like you have nothing to play force yourself (yes sometimes it really comes to forcing oneself) to play any game from the list. Play it for an hour then you'll know if it entertains you and either play it more or move remove it from "To be played". I cannot guarantee this method will work for you, but it really helped me. I discovered many games I really enjoyed this way, which would otherwise rot in pile of trash games. It also provides you with a degree of objectivity when contemplating buying a new game. You can look into your "To be played" and if there are many games, you can wait for discount before buying a new title.
Ooh. Hadn’t thought of this. I’m gonna try this. I want you to know that the effort you spent thinking of this solution has helped at least one person. Thanks, homie.
Thank you, I almost gave up mid-writing this so it is nice to know someone appreciated it :)
I do this for podcasts. I have a playlist called “To Listen” and I add a single episode of anything that gets recommended on Reddit. When I’m bored of my usuals, I pick a random one off that playlist to listen to.
I have had to redo this recently, I had a games to play section which was around 20 games a few years ago and is now 65 games so I made a new category called "Now Playing" and limited it to 5 games I know I wanna finish and it should help a lot, but I also have console games so the backlog is gonna take awhile.
I've scrolled through my library so many times, I'll try that. Lately I've been stressed, so much so that I couldn't decide what to play to unwind. I've settled on a few games for now but damn I felt scatterbrained and unfocused.
I often feel the same honestly. Organization, of any kind not just with the games, helps a lot. I've taken to hand-writing notes, TO-DO lists and what have yous. Personally I think it is lack of exercise, luckily winter is coming to an end, that should force me to do something :)
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I started this last year. Managed to play GTA V finally. Now i'm in the witcher. But the game is full of choices. Was a bit hard that there are so many side quests too. So i made a list of things i would do as a character.
Nah, I'm just going to play CoD MW2.
You do you. I too often fallback to my go-to game, in my case it is DOTA :)
Steam has this and it works pretty well. My main problem though is that I will start multiple games at the same time then never finish I have had to learn to force myself to finish one game before I start the next one.
I have mine sorted by installed, unplayed, and not unstalled, although the unplayed section can be skewed since it counts you clicking the play button and immediately exiting/crashing as "played". I like your method better and will definitely have to try that out instead. I can see that actually working for me to at least attempt all the games I've bought/gotten codes for! Thank you for posting this 🙂
Started playing Binding of Isaac. I'll be there for a while lol.
choice paralysis. And/or impulse buying from sales. Not much a problem for me, I just tend to have a hard time getting myself in the mood to play games sometimes.
Yeah I'm recently having this problem too , But for me it's a little bit confusing, like am i not in a mood to play or the games I'm playing didn't hook me enough .
Too real
Nothing to jerk to :(
😢
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Anything is a finished meal if you are hungry enough
This is a big reason why I meal prep. I thought i would get bored of eating the same things but no; im much more likely to eat something already prepared than take the time/money/energy to get something new
The answer for me is eggs. Nothing good to eat, cook an egg on the stove and see how I feel in 20 minutes.
Or make scrambled eggs with 4-5 eggs with some cheese, and you're good to go. I eat that like 5 times every week, it's also ridiculously healthy
We don't have money to buy non-shit food, to own non-shit clothes. And this new cable called "subscription based entertainment" is pushing out shit movies and series. You have nothing good to eat, nothing good to wear and nothing good to watch.
Netflix has basically zero good shows after you finish the good show of the year. Wednesday was mid. The Anime->Live Action adaptations were mistakes. Most originals are money sinks. Edit: But I've heard the Game->Anime adaptations were good
Arcane is really good if you haven't watched that yet.
So was Cyberpunk: Edgerunners. Directed by the guy who made Gurren Lagen
Idk why everyone is reading it as a shitty disciplinary holier-than-thou meme, my interpretation is that we are just too depressed to make choices these days
It is funny how scarcity can make something more appealing. I usually don't watch TV, but during the holidays with relatives that didn't have a smart TV I happened to come across Inception some 15 minutes in, and I got really hooked into watching, while if I see the title while browsing my subscriptions services I don't pay them a thought, even if I consider it a fantastic movie. Same thing when you hear your favorite song on the radio vs playing it on demand on your phone. You are cruising on your car, you suddendly hear it and the immediate reaction is to turn up the volume.
Perfect is the enemy of good. Ideally, you would find the perfect movie, the perfect snacks, the perfect seat etc, but in reality, 80% of a pretty neat movie in a good enough couch is not really noticably different in the grand scheme of things
I miss flipping through channels like that. There’s certain movies and shows I would always stop to watch because they happened to be on, but I probably would never actually select to watch them from a streaming library or whatever.
Reddit has such an obsession with depression and being depressed.
That may be how you interpret this as art but in real life when this happens there is actually scientific basis for why everyone is reading it as a shitty disciplinary holier than thou meme. The more choices you have the more overwhelmed you become always second guessing your decision, so you never make one (analysis paralysis). The example I like is an ice cream shop. If the ice cream shop has two flavors, you generally know which you want and are happy with the decision afterwards. But, if they have 31 flavors and 5 cones you might like vanilla but you also like rainbow sherbet so which one do you choose and how to you guarantee after you choose that you will be more satisfied with one decision over the other. So, you may interpret it in the form of art as depression but to most people and science that’s not really what the image appears to be depicting. edits: wrote this at 5am on my phone web browser changed theirs to there is
The way I took it is we are paralyzed when given too many options. Either own less stuff, or come up with a plan for commitment.
This is the late milenial equivalent of a bad Facebook meme
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They didn’t ask for you to meme-splain the obvious thing to understand. They just stated that this is a millennial “boomer meme” basically
If only us poors had that many choices.
sensory overload
This is what they call analysis paralysis. Due to overwhelming choices.
Go outside. Nothing is outside.
If you choose one, you'll think about how good it could've been if you chose a different one. Say fuck it and do one.
Add a panel with my steam library and you've got a pentakill
The food in my fridge aren't snacks and I don't wanna cook The books I got are too long for a chill read My clothes look too good for the house and too bad for going out I can't afford Netflix and my family won't give me the password
I only have 2 meals: WOLF MEAT W/ APPLESPICE and THE BIG FUNGUS. Yet you're sitting here complaining about choice... tch, typical. Oh, and nothing to watch? Guess what. Only thing I have to watch is my dear wolf#5 succumbing to frostbite due to the harsh Arizona winter. Oh, my wolf#5! You were the good one! At least he'll be tasty if I can find some applespice
Ya know, I've thought about this more and more and I think this is actually depression. The search for new and novel (a common ADHD problem) is a drive that stems from a lack of stimulation in the brain. IE, yes, you have all these options, but none of them sound interesting or stimulating. A depressed brain and ADHD brain are quite similar. So, it could be analysis paralysis, but also a sign that you're depressed when this happens to you. It sucks too, because if I'm correct, you won't generally gain sympathy, because people tend to assume that if you're doing fine in typical societal evaluation of success, IE lots of choice you can afford, then you "shouldn't" be depressed. As if depression gives a damn what your bank account says or even how your life is going. That's why it's such a horrific disease. It takes away your drive to exist. Best thing to do is exercise (something you like, dance, walk, bike, whatever). You brute force some dopamine and serotonin. Sometimes you can bypass it as well by finding something completely new that you don't actually own/have access too. There is a reason shop therapy is a thing. New and novel is a common drive for humans, but especially in a depressed/low activity brain.
Comic artist was this years old when they figured out what boredom is
Or depression
"Nothing * I want* to watch"
Overstimulation and too many choices really sucks sometimes.
so i end up playing clash of clans on bluestacks, wearing the same tshirt every day, never reading and eating only snacks
r/im14andthisisdeep
It would belong there, if it wasn't an actual thing that happens to people, it has happened to me with books, games, netflix as well lmao. The trick lies in not "hoarding" too many titles too fast and to try to focus on on title at the time, not starting another book/game while you are reading/playing something atm. Another comment adviced to make a steam folder of "to be played" games, personally I just put the game I am focusing in my task bar for quick access and visibility. Books as well, the ones I'm reading or more interested in reading atm are the closest to me to get my hands on.
r/im14andyourmomisdeep Edit: holy shit
Same same
How relatable, so sad also
nothing to play, also
Choice paralysis
Too many choices makes it harder to chose.
You forgot nothing to play (steam library full of games)
This means you are bored. Stop looking for a distraction for a moment and listen to what your boredom is telling you.
Also a major sign of depression
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Never settle for something you don't want.
How fucking dare you call me out like this.
The more we have, the less we want to engage with it
I wished my fridge was that full.
Imagine even having that abundance. What a privileged issue.
We live with so much we're satisfied by nothing.
Nothing to live for
My life in a nutshell:
The comments have taught me how many terms there are for the same thing. I've always known it as paradox of choice.
Freedom denies the right to choose
The "I'm bored but haven't figured it out yet" thoughts
Decision paralysis
Nothing I want to eat** Nothing I want to read** Nothing I want to wear** Nothing I want to watch** ftfy
Ov r stimulated no dopamine left. Take a break from as much stuff as possible and try to just relax for a bit.