>Think of playing games all day at work
>get home
>don't feel like gaming/can't bring myself to load up game
>watch YouTube all day instead
>Go to work next day
>Think about playing games all day at work

When does it end? What's wrong with me? Anyone else feel like this

>>717361982 (OP)
Yes. i get option paralysis, then boot up a game thinking this time will be different and then cant make it more than 15 minutes. end up watching youtube videos about games and browsing /v/

I have ai burnout

>>717361982 (OP)
Yeah literally me
I think suicide is the best option, but I'm accepting suggestions

>>717361982 (OP)
i've been working on rehabilitating myself from "second monitor" addiction
so far creating a shorter list of things i am interested in has helped like picrel
best advice i can give is that modern content creation is so shit now that ultimately you're not missing out on much
just launch the damn game

Just stop playing games. Do something else. Come back next week, next month, next year. You don't need to do something all the time.

>>717361982 (OP)
have sex

you have depression.
go outside. get some exercise.

>>717362976
>work all day
>too tired to exercise
>too late to go out
What now fag

>>717361982 (OP)
Here's how you cure your gaming burnout:

>1] Pick a game you like, but haven't played in a while. Don't think too hard about it, just pick one.
>2] Dedicate yourself to playing it for 20 minutes. Don't stall, don't quit early, just play it seriously for 20 minutes regardles of how you feel about it. Again, do not quit before the 20 minute mark even if you're not having a good time, this is the important part.
>3] If you want to keep playing after 20 minutes have passed, congratulations you're cured.
>4] If you don't, just quit and pick a different game tomorrow.

Same, it's weird games are all I think about while I'm raising my WIFE'S TITS and fucking my KIDS

>>717363072
I guess it's time to kill yourself.

>>717363072
good exercise actually revitalizes you, rather than tiring you. You'd know this if you have done it at any point in your life.

>>717362853
If that's really the kind of brainrot you play, I perfectly understand why you find it difficult to keep your attention on gaming.

>bought every N64 game I even had the slightest interest in playing
>stand in front of shelf with 50 or so games
>nothing to play
I guess I’m just not that into racing games, 5th gen console FPS, and party games after all

>>717361982 (OP)
Yeah I do this except I'm a NEET so what happens is
>browse /v/ all day
>eat dinner
>go to bed
>lie in bed thinking about vidya
>tomorrow for sure i'll play vidya
>fall asleep
>wake up
>browse /v/ all day
>eat dinner
>go to bed
But 3 days ago I finally installed a game so I'm making progress.

>>717361982 (OP)
Yes, happens to me all the time. Fuck work.

>>717361982 (OP)
I have anti-woke burnout

Gen A and Z doesn't even want to play games at all, they would rather doomscroll TikTok and do social media or youtube. Brain rot is as dangerous as abusing drugs for the attention span and how the mind wires itself.
I'm a millennial and I havent bothered with a AAA story game in over 10 years, Ive done it all already.

I simply don't understand this mentality. Maybe I'm just not completely pathetic, but any time I get bored of playing games, I go on a drive. Could be a day, could be two weeks. By the midpoint of the drive I am bored of seeing the world again and can't wait to return to video games. The cycle is obviously endless because the grass is always greener on the other side, but there is always another road I haven't driven, or a state I haven't explored. Likewise, there's always another thing to do in a game that I love.

Maybe it's because I never outsourced my thinking to robots or other people.

>>717363491

>join multiplayer game with my friends
>have fun for 20 mins
>stop having fun and don't care if we win or lose, just whatever makes the game end sooner

hell.img

go on howlongtobeat.com, find a game that can be beaten in 1-2 hours.
play and finish that game, unplug your router too btw

>>717363568
I wanna hear the audio

>>717363634
Looks legit.
https://howlongtobeat.com/game/1911

>>717363383
I remember being a neet. I was so ashamed and embarrassed of myself that I’d just lie in bed all day being depressed and imagining how much happier I’d be if I was out doing something with my life and that some nice girl would love me. Now I’m an old wageslave that’s a veteran and has a PhD and I’m still alone and still can barely afford to buy a house and when I get to take my 3 weeks of vacation every year I’m too tired to do anything so I do nothing but sit at home while it zooms by.

>>717363072
>work all day
>too tired to exercise
exercise will make you less tired over time, as you build stamina.

construction workers can get up at 4am to hit the gym and then work all day, you can go for a ten minute walk before supper and do some jumping jacks in the park.

>>717361982 (OP)
It's depression, faggot, get some sun

>>717363072
See >>717363223
I was a fucking burnout slob during covid, I could barely workout for 5 minutes without going completely out of breath. Now I can easily go for an hour straight, and yes, even when I am literally on 0 energy, all it takes is to start working out, and then you just keep pushing yourself as hard as you can. And at the end, your body rewards you with "runners high" pretty much the body tries to keep you working out by releasing happy chemicals after every session.
The only thing YOU have to do is start those sessions, and keep fucking going at them until they are part of your routine, to the point where you start missing them and feeling the itch to work out if you miss a day.

>>717363739
you can pretty much make out what hes saying

>>717361982 (OP)
get a good night's sleep(most important part)
exercise in the morning
either cut youtube or run it in the background while gaming(or just watch stuff you want to catch up on while at work)

>>717364038
Not him but you’re such a dumb faggot. I was in the military for 5 years and had to wake up early to group PT almost every morning and I still hated exercising and felt like hot ass afterwards. Exercise doesn’t fix depression, you brainless parroting armchair life coaches.

>>717362712
Nah, output is getting really bad lately. Ai seems to have reached a plateau.

>>717364403
>And at the end, your body rewards you with "runners high" pretty much the body tries to keep you working out by releasing happy chemicals after every session
Can you even begin to comprehend how genuinely retarded you sound

I don't have that, but I used to play games with my friends. We'd just chill on discord and talk while playing whatever.

>>717362712
Shame its not going away

>>717363223
I exercise and it just makes me permanently tired

>>717365481
military exercise is different. they're breaking you down and reshaping you into golems. they don't give a fuck about your mental wellbeing, ask anyone who's had to deal with veteran's affairs.

Stop using message boards outside of work hours
Stop using social media altogether
Put your phone away
Pick a game to play for the night and stick to it
Easy peasy

>>717365910
>veteran's affairs.
Why are they always treated bad? They are even having a hard time getting the money they earned rightfully. Governments are scum, really.

>>717361982 (OP)
I don't know what you do for work anon, but if you use a computer for work then it's extremely normal to not want to use a computer after work.
Sometimes all you need to do is to give your brain an hour or so to rest once you're home. You can do this by showering, making dinner, listening to music, or reading a physical book. The goal is to simply not look at a screen.
After that, your brain is a lot more amenable to playing video games.
Alternatively, you may need to change what games you are playing. Maybe you need something freeform and easy like Minecraft? Or maybe an RPG so you can escape into something?
If your current games include live service or gacha, that's probably not going to help the burnout because those games are designed to exploit addictive behavior.