5/31/2023 0 Comments Time sink definition![]() ![]() one of the most unproductive was ff12, i dont remember my play time now, but i do remember drinking energy drinks, coffee and eventually just straight caffeine pills to keep playing days straight. My time sinks come in phases, being in my 4th year at university and not a very diligent student, over the years ive had alot free time to spend in various time wasting ways. Discipline + workable strategy = success. The extra cost of importing also serves as a barrier. When the next gen systems come out, I will import one and buy only Japanese games for it. I only buy Japanese games for my DS (and their American release counterparts have to match that % to qualify). I installed Leechblock on Firefox and put things like Facebook on it during the workday. I already cut out television entirely except for two shows my wife wants to watch together. You’d be surprised how many games don’t qualify, games I would’ve bought in the past. And as my life has gotten busier, I raise that score a point at a time. Regardless of any arguments one might make about score aggregators or even the validity of reviews, this was an objective way I could control my impulses. As it was, my backlog of games to play was piling up faster than I could play through them. So I created an artificial barrier for myself–if a game I’m interested in doesn’t Metacritic a rating higher than a certain %, I don’t buy it. I value them for entertainment, but know that they can take far more time than their value should allow. Games are it for me, but I enjoy them too much to give them up. This entry was posted in Learning & Resources, Personal by taekk. What are your major distractions and what can you do to remove them? Oh, and don’t forget to add my feed to your RSS reader!! I think proactively removing areas of distraction is really going to help me become more productive and accomplish the things I really want to get done such as the new Complete Guide to Japanese. So I’ve cleaned up my list of everything except for 14 feeds including a few web comics like dilbert and xkcd which are quick to read, my wife’s blog, a couple of really cool or funny technical feeds like and, and (I can’t give up my Angry Video Game Nerd fix). Any time I go online to do something, it sits there, beckoning me to go dig for jewels of interesting content buried in a huge pile of junk. I realized today that my major other distraction was the huge number of random RSS feeds that I picked up in my Google reader. Now, I really can’t waste my time playing games even if I wanted to. ![]() But I’ve decided to just save my money and time by not enabling myself to waste it on games. I could probably afford to buy a new computer, or maybe even a TV and game console. But now, the system is showing it’s age and doesn’t run GTA IV very well (which I just bought for a measly $20). He would say, “Hold on, my character needs to go to work now,” to which I replied, “But the REAL YOU needs to go to class!”Īnyway, I’ve had a good run playing a whole bunch of games the past few months with my Intel Core 2 Dell and ATI Radeon HD 2600 PRO. Things were different for my good friend, who brought a new computer to college and a copy of the Sims. It didn’t help that the rest of the academic year was spent in the middle of nowhere in Minnesota. Necessity really is the mother of invention: the necessity to save myself from going insane from boredom. In fact, during college winter and summer breaks, I was dirt poor and bored out of my mind. I had no TV, console, and my laptop could play basically minesweeper and that’s it. But why did I hardly play any games in college when I was first learning Japanese and began writing the Grammar Guide? It’s because I couldn’t afford it. Games are addictive because of basic behavioral psychology of rewarding fake achievements. Lately, one of my major time sinks were playing games. It takes a lot less effort then actually producing the TV show, youtube video, or website but the ease of effort in passive consumption is what makes it so tempting. What prevents us from being productive and being a vastly over-simplified definition of the word: “happy”? It’s activities where you don’t produce anything things like watching TV or youtube, playing games, or browsing sites like. Even a happy family requires its members to be productive in order for things to run smoothly around the house. All of these things fall under a large category of being “productive”. What’s true happiness? Of course, a stable and happy family is essential but for many of us, it’s also about seeking new opportunities, investing in ourselves, and contributing something useful and helpful to the world. ![]()
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