Day 10: Prioritizing Fun
[NOTE FROM THE FUTURE: This post was first written in September 2022. I am now reviewing it in November 2023 and deciding what moves and what stays as this site becomes more public, my main blog is rebranded, and I try out doing things on Substack. Normally, this one would get the ax and become an unpublished footnote in history for no one to ever see. But, I want to keep it as a bit of a raw demonstration that sometimes things don't go as planned, and that's okay. At the time of writing, I was doing a daily, public journal of sorts. Most posts from that time have been either deleted for having nothing of substance, or edited and repurposed here and elsewhere. This is one of the few that will remain untouched (other than this note). This will function as a time capsule of sorts that that embodies what it means to allow imperfection to exist.]
Don't Be Me
I've recently been playing Dying Light Platinum Edition on the Switch.
I'm having a lot of fun with it, but that wasn't until I decided to stop taking it so seriously.
I have this... quirk, for lack of a better word, related to media that manifests itself in two ways. First, I have to do everything in order.
"Hey, Evan, that new Blah Blah Blah 2 movie is pretty good, you should check it out."
"Eh, I never saw the first one. Idk if I have time to catch up."
"Nah, you don't need to see the first one, it's a completely separate story."
"No, I need to see the first one first."
Second, content must be consumed as closely as possible to it's original design.
This is where Dying Light Platinum Edition comes in.
The 'Platinum Edition' is a content complete edition where all of the DLC is included and unlocked from the start.
In Dying Light, this means the player has access to much more powerful weapons than they normally would in the beginning of the game.
My brain isn't okay with that because it isn't how the game was originally intend to be played.
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I'm done with this post. I'll wrap up what my point was, but I'm not going to bother with the connecting bits anymore.
Through annoying circumstances that will be detailed in tomorrow's post, I lost a significant chunk of my work on this. I've redone some of what I've lost, but my motivation to continue rethinking my thoughts and rewriting them is going into the negatives.
So, I will just make my conclusion and call it a day.
Conclusion.
Don't take things too seriously, and always prioritize fun. If you set some artificial rule up for yourself to follow that gets in the way of you having fun for no good reason, stop it. The fun is so much better. I know it's tough, but, to use the worn out saying, you only live once.
God Bless
PS: I think this is the first post, in my line of posting every day, where I am super disappointed with what I've produced and really don't want to hit the publish button. It's so frustrating loosing work. If I didn't really like the idea that I'm trying to convey, and I had a backup idea, I would have just scrapped this and done something different. I don't expect anyone to have a clue what I'm talking about in this one. It makes no sense to anyone but me. But, I guess me is the only one that really matters when writing a journal.
PSS: Stay tuned for tomorrow, where we take a look at the garbage pile that is 'Min Browser'.