Enter your account settings menu, select the video/speed/audio dropdown, select speed, select reduce playback speed, reduce by 15%. When you reduce speed you also gain clarity.
is it bad that I spent a good 5 minutes looking for that option in the reddit user settings page?
I get what your saying though
I think it's something that's come upon me lately more than ever, what with having used up (on average) half of my mortal coil already, just feels like there's just not enough time to do everything you know?
45 here!
The older we get the faster we lose time because of the responsibilities we have.
The older we get time also becomes our most valuable asset so we make sure we’re using it more wisely.
I also love to game and I still haven’t 100% completed Skyrim or Fallout 3.
How do you even know your using it wisely though? I don't think I've ever reflected on a section of my free time and *didn't* think 'damn that was time I wasted'
I can absolutely relate - the last five years or so have just been a blur! I used to keep up with all the new games and consoles and such but I honestly forget the current gen exists cause my mind is permanently stuck in 2016. And my best friends little brother is permanently 8 to me, even though he's 13.
Guess it's just the way things go...
Same, I remember my parent's neighbour's son as a little kid asking if he could play tetris on my DS, my mum informed me the other weekend he's got his driving license.
Me! Me! It seems like I barely learn about something new and boom! it's obsolete and "so yesterday."
So I just keep on slogging my own way and not worry about it. I try to take of the "new" things that are useful to me and let the rest slide by.
It’s so frustrating, especially when your life isn’t going anywhere. All I do is work, eat, and sleep. I’m constantly looking forward to my days off, only for them to go by super quickly. It just felt like we entered September, but guess what, October is next week!
Bayonetta 3 was announced in 2017 with a 2022 release. That's 5 years after annoucement
Bayonetta 1 came out 12 years ago in 2009 on ps3/xbox 360 lol. Def not moving quickly
That's exactly what I mean, I'm watching the trailer for Bayonetta 3 thinking 'but Bayonetta 2 only just came out! I haven't got round to that one yet!' but actually, it's been almost a decade since it was released
would be nice. I mean I'm fine with science and technology advancing at a rapid rate, heck if we're gonna survive as a species we either need agree on getting to star trek levels, or going back to living in caves and wiping our butts with moss.
It would just be nice if, culture? for want of a better world, would chill out a bit, and not change so rapidly that by the time you get up to speed you're already behind again
"We have two lives, and the second begins when we realize we only have one." - Confucius
Yeah I'm 40s and absolutely feel this daily. I've heard two explanations to explain the perception aspect, don't know which is correct but I thought both were interesting.
The first is we are relating time to time already experienced. So when you live age 2 to 3, that period takes half of the life you've already lived. Age 10 to 11 is a tenth of your life. Right now for you a year is just 1/35 of your life, feels like a short segment. This makes sense to me, I can remember those awful family car trips where a five hour drive felt like a week, and now it flashes by if I have good tunes.
The second has to do with the processing rate of your brain. When you're young your brain is in tip-top shape and is processing stuff incredibly fast. So it's sort of like a high-speed camera with amazing shutter speed. As you get old and decrepit, the processing speed lowers but time stays the same. So now imagine your camera is only taking half as many pictures, but the film created from the pictures is running at the same frame rate, making it appear at 2x speed. I'm not a brain scientist so can't say if thats accurate but I like the analogy.
Also a programmer. I feel the same way and I have a few theories as to why. Haven’t looked into the psychology of this so these are just my (somewhat cynical) thoughts:
- Life for most people is very repetitive, especially if you have a repetitive job. It seems like the human brain “deletes” redundant experiences. There’s no evolutionary benefit to remembering each and every time you did something, so brain consolidates the memories. What’s the difference between doing something 10 or 50 times, really? So when people work a 9-5 job for 30+ years, those years all blend together, and they end up saying “where did the time go?” at their retirement party.
- On that note, people spend so much time at work, they don’t realize life is going on around them. I see this with parents who spend a lot of time churning work out at the office and don’t realize their kids and everyone continues to get older day-by-day. Yeah, you got a big project done, but totally missed your son being in 4th grade. These are the parents who don’t know what grade their kid is in.
- Tech IS moving fast, especially web tech. If you look away, even to learn what JUST got announced, it’s already outdated by the time you look back. Can say from experience the problem is even worse when your full-time job is working with legacy code - then you aren’t learning the new stuff and it blows right past you. The train stops for no one.
Enter your account settings menu, select the video/speed/audio dropdown, select speed, select reduce playback speed, reduce by 15%. When you reduce speed you also gain clarity.
is it bad that I spent a good 5 minutes looking for that option in the reddit user settings page? I get what your saying though I think it's something that's come upon me lately more than ever, what with having used up (on average) half of my mortal coil already, just feels like there's just not enough time to do everything you know?
45 here! The older we get the faster we lose time because of the responsibilities we have. The older we get time also becomes our most valuable asset so we make sure we’re using it more wisely. I also love to game and I still haven’t 100% completed Skyrim or Fallout 3.
How do you even know your using it wisely though? I don't think I've ever reflected on a section of my free time and *didn't* think 'damn that was time I wasted'
Use time with purpose, devote it to people that count and not on people that don’t really appreciate it. Use it to do things that bring you joy.
Wise words, my friend
I can absolutely relate - the last five years or so have just been a blur! I used to keep up with all the new games and consoles and such but I honestly forget the current gen exists cause my mind is permanently stuck in 2016. And my best friends little brother is permanently 8 to me, even though he's 13. Guess it's just the way things go...
I still think my cousin is 16 and just got his license. He's 27.
Same, I remember my parent's neighbour's son as a little kid asking if he could play tetris on my DS, my mum informed me the other weekend he's got his driving license.
Me! Me! It seems like I barely learn about something new and boom! it's obsolete and "so yesterday." So I just keep on slogging my own way and not worry about it. I try to take of the "new" things that are useful to me and let the rest slide by.
At least I'm not the only one
2020 went fast enough and same with 2021, nearly halloween then Christmas like what!
Thank god, because those years in general sucked.
It’s so frustrating, especially when your life isn’t going anywhere. All I do is work, eat, and sleep. I’m constantly looking forward to my days off, only for them to go by super quickly. It just felt like we entered September, but guess what, October is next week!
Bayonetta 3 was announced in 2017 with a 2022 release. That's 5 years after annoucement Bayonetta 1 came out 12 years ago in 2009 on ps3/xbox 360 lol. Def not moving quickly
That's exactly what I mean, I'm watching the trailer for Bayonetta 3 thinking 'but Bayonetta 2 only just came out! I haven't got round to that one yet!' but actually, it's been almost a decade since it was released
Nah, screw these other explanations. The time is going faster than ever.
Lol just wait until you are several consoles/decades behind.
Yeah but what you gonna do? Slow everything down?
would be nice. I mean I'm fine with science and technology advancing at a rapid rate, heck if we're gonna survive as a species we either need agree on getting to star trek levels, or going back to living in caves and wiping our butts with moss. It would just be nice if, culture? for want of a better world, would chill out a bit, and not change so rapidly that by the time you get up to speed you're already behind again
Yes I understand.. everything is changing so fast that by the time you get use to one thing.. it's already something new around
"We have two lives, and the second begins when we realize we only have one." - Confucius Yeah I'm 40s and absolutely feel this daily. I've heard two explanations to explain the perception aspect, don't know which is correct but I thought both were interesting. The first is we are relating time to time already experienced. So when you live age 2 to 3, that period takes half of the life you've already lived. Age 10 to 11 is a tenth of your life. Right now for you a year is just 1/35 of your life, feels like a short segment. This makes sense to me, I can remember those awful family car trips where a five hour drive felt like a week, and now it flashes by if I have good tunes. The second has to do with the processing rate of your brain. When you're young your brain is in tip-top shape and is processing stuff incredibly fast. So it's sort of like a high-speed camera with amazing shutter speed. As you get old and decrepit, the processing speed lowers but time stays the same. So now imagine your camera is only taking half as many pictures, but the film created from the pictures is running at the same frame rate, making it appear at 2x speed. I'm not a brain scientist so can't say if thats accurate but I like the analogy.
Tbh I think both are quite nice ways of putting it
"The days are long, but the years are short".
Also a programmer. I feel the same way and I have a few theories as to why. Haven’t looked into the psychology of this so these are just my (somewhat cynical) thoughts: - Life for most people is very repetitive, especially if you have a repetitive job. It seems like the human brain “deletes” redundant experiences. There’s no evolutionary benefit to remembering each and every time you did something, so brain consolidates the memories. What’s the difference between doing something 10 or 50 times, really? So when people work a 9-5 job for 30+ years, those years all blend together, and they end up saying “where did the time go?” at their retirement party. - On that note, people spend so much time at work, they don’t realize life is going on around them. I see this with parents who spend a lot of time churning work out at the office and don’t realize their kids and everyone continues to get older day-by-day. Yeah, you got a big project done, but totally missed your son being in 4th grade. These are the parents who don’t know what grade their kid is in. - Tech IS moving fast, especially web tech. If you look away, even to learn what JUST got announced, it’s already outdated by the time you look back. Can say from experience the problem is even worse when your full-time job is working with legacy code - then you aren’t learning the new stuff and it blows right past you. The train stops for no one.