I’ve been gaming since the days of the Atari, and being a gamer in 2025 has never been better.
There have been a lot of AAA duds, but the indie scene is packed full of great games.
I cannot speak to this, but it sounds like you are just limiting your free time to a few activities instead of pushing yourself to try new things.
There is more to life than books, movies and gaming.
Yes, but it’s not meant to be your life. You have one life given to you as a gift, use it well.
Have you tried hanging out with them? Trying to get to know them more? And for friends, try reaching out to some people you’ve lost contact with due to sheer laziness of saying hello once in a while, it’s never too late to reconnect with people you got along well with. You can always start by sending a meme you know they’ll find funny.
It sounds to me like you have too much free time, now you might not exactly like what I have to say but you’ll be better off for it. Branch out your hobbies, fill your day with useful activities, eat healthy, go to the gym and work out by lifting weights / optional cardio.
You come off as someone with too much free time on their hands and just looks to find problems which are so inconsequential and pointless due to their worldy nature.
The human brain will spiral out of control when it’s left with boredom, you need to actively engage your mind and your body otherwise you’ll be stuck in the same cycle (this goes doubly so for Men, but Women also suffer the same). I’d also look at your nutrition and if you’ve got any deficiencies with certain vitamins or minerals as those can have massive effects on your insane amount of overthinking.
Did they have identical stat weights? Did they both do / ignore pylons the same amount? Did they both cleave barrels the same amount? Did they both have an aug buffing them or not? Beyond basic competency in the fight, your skill in your class is irrelevant as the game basically plays itself. 95% of your parse comes from gear / talents. Skill matters SLIGHTLY, but nowhere near as much as it used to.
No, not really. The indie scene is packed full of cheap nostalgia grabs and imitations of games they played when they were younger. Or it’s low effort s***posts.
I read, or used to.
I write.
I do bad art.
I can code, and know how to use Godot and Unity.
I cook.
I research random scientific / medical topics that interest me.
I watch anime.
I watch movies.
I play several instruments.
I write music.
I garden.
I play video games.
I learned, and forgot, three non-English languages.
Like what else can I do? They all get boring or uninteresting for various reasons, or are not something I can do day in day out.
Yep, and they only do that when they’re drunk and I can’t relate to them.
Never had anyone I got along with, so can’t really reconnect with anyone.
No, not 95%, more like 70-80%.
And if you include m+, it’s even wider.
I always play with an eye patch so my depth perception is limited and I have a better score than you and it took me only 3 days to get AOTC.
More like 95%.
Basic competency is not a factor, as we assume everyone has that.
So that leaves 5% of your skill influencing your parse.
Cool you lack depth perception in a game on a flat monitor that has no depth.
I didn’t have a character in mythic gear from last season, and I get bored and reroll every 3 days. Wowie.
Basic competency is ABSOLUTELY a factor. It’s also not exactly reflected in parse.
During progression, people don’t remotely mess up at the same rate.
What does that fall under other than basic competency?
You have people that parse lower, and screw up more.
Being stupid, high, drunk, sleep deprived, etc. Once you see the mechanic a time or two, no reason to mess up with it anymore.
Uhh, not how this works.
Well there’s something impacting their learning ability.
I don’t play the game for a challenge. I play to kill things for an hour or so while I destress.
People tunnel vision, and lose track. It’s not solely doing mechanics. It’s doing dps and healing while doing mechanics.
Well, I do content that I find challenging. Just like you I tend to get bored when doing easy-mode content. Luckily you’ve got mythic raiding (which I don’t engage in), and m+ (which takes up most of my time).
PvP is evergreen content. Completionism is quite difficult. Old mount farms are challenging of your patience, if not difficult.
There are a lot of things to do if you expand outside of competitive PvE.
If there were 20 Onikonekos, he’d beat Liquid in RWF. Unfortunately, cloning technology isn’t that advanced yet.
For real, aha.
All that energy spent dumping on WoW, you could be off having fun doing something else.
Well I have a suggestion for you. If you are that good and WoW is that easy for you, then you should contact a guy named Maximilian who works for Team Liquid. Tell him how he is missing your talents.
No question he will throw someone off his RWF team an put you in his place. Other teams will just give up the RWF race knowing you are on Team Liquid. In fact they may even bid for your services.
You could become rich just playing a video game.
If only bro.
But only if he’s given a properly geared character. No clue as to why he can’t properly gear a character himself though, maybe it’s too easy?
People can do it by inting in League of Legends.
So, like, you’re just not trying.
Gearing is boring, but he needs the crutch gear gives, which is like a 2% difference or something.
Truly significant.