Thought the last one you mentioned was going to be commented sooner 😂
Comment on How do you combat boredom?
Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 1 day ago
For me, video games and board games, along with some mindless Internet scrolling, pot and masturbation.
God1st@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I was going to leave that out, but since no one else said it, I felt it needed representation. 😂
AngryRobot@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Over the past week and a half, I’ve been playing the Walking Dead Telltale games with my wife through my Steam Link on the living room TV. She’s not a gamer at all but she’s loving them. We’ve finished the first 2 and are starting the third. I do the QTEs and she does the decision-making stuff. Once we’re done, she’s excited to play through them again with different choices to see what happens. Its real Y helping 8s to not doom scroll.
We’re also going camping tomorrow with my brother and his family for 6 days. He uas an LCD projector, so I have a thumbdrive with a half dozen movies to watch after dark.
anothermember@feddit.uk 1 day ago
That part seems more like succumbing to boredom than combatting it. Don’t get me wrong, I’m guilty myself.
Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 1 day ago
The only difference between those and “real” hobbies are your own prejudices.
anothermember@feddit.uk 1 day ago
Why, do you know me from somewhere? The key word there is “seems”; if you truly get fulfilment from mindless Internet scrolling, pot and masturbation then go for it. That’s just not my experience. When you posted that here did you not expect other people to share their own perspectives?
Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 1 day ago
It was a tongue in cheek comment, but, since you asked…
If I said fishing, would you have considered that succumbing to boredom, or overcoming it?
I’m going to guess overcoming, because that’s a legitimate hobby. You sit there, tug your rod for a few hours and then go home. And, if you’re a catch and release fisherman, you’re going home empty handed. Really nothing more fulfilling about wasting an afternoon fishing than jerking it, but society has deemed one a hobby and the other a “dirty thing we don’t talk about”