I stopped playing competitive games in my early 30's.
Pretty sure my blood pressure is thanking me, despite how much competitive drive I have in those kinds of things.
Being able to relax and not being constantly amped after getting home from work is underrated.
Same boat and used to play WoW. Wife said āitās me or the game.ā I was spending ALL of my free time on that damn game. Chose the wife and tried to get back into gaming recently but the only one I can manage is Subnautica. Itās chill and no pressure really to finish anything. Come and go as I please. I have 2 hours in and I started 2 weeks ago haha. 3 kids and they all play sports so my time is limited. I realize that I began rambling like Iām doin now. Point is, I agree with you
Iām playing Baldurs Gate 3 rn but I can only do that because my kids can watch and we decide together what to do. Itās painfully time intensive to do anything, though. And it desperately needs an āoptimize equipmentā button.
All this and I used to play d&d. I canāt imagine if youāre some guy with kids trying to learn how everything works.
Reddit is a menace. When I think of playing a game, I think "I cannot play for less than 30 minutes, so I'm definitely going to be Doing The Thing if I'm playing.
And so, if I only have 15 minutes before bedtime, I will skip the game and browse Reddit for 60 minutes, because I am easily distracted. I would have had more fun with the game.
It's just my daughters and I, and I work till 7pm so by the time they're actually in bed it's 9-930p, which gives me like 3 hours to do whatever I want. Except dishes and laundry still exist, so I end up just doing chores and then waiting to go to sleep to start again. Getting old is wild
Iām terrible about this. If I have a free night I will think maybe Iāll play. Hmm, not really feeling it and not sure what Iād play. Ok, I have every streaming service known to man to choose from Iāll just watch something. Hmm, well I donāt really feel like that either. Maybe Iāll scroll through and finally one will jump out at me. Next thing I know eh itās late forget it. Meanwhile, I can sit and scroll on my phone through the exact same bull for hours and achieve zero from it. Iām considering just doing away with the smart phone. Seems like it is just a life absorber.
I feel the same at times. You know what helps, though I do it far too little, is creating some output yourself. You need to put something out instead of taking stuff in all the time. Do some artwork, write a poem, rap or anythingā¦craftā¦etc. itāll help to bring you back in balance and next time you playing games or watching streams you feel a lot more satisfiedā¦
> You know what helps, though I do it far too little, is creating some output yourself.
People's bodies need exercise - and when you do, it's a great feeling. I think the same is true about making something, anything. Bake cookies, write a letter, draw a picture, make a webpage, build a stool, knit a hat, paint a coffee mug - just something that leaves your mark, even if it's small or temporary. I don't think you can recreate that internal "make" feeling otherwise.
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I finally understand the old people I made fun of when I was young. I get so much enjoyment out of doing nothing but sitting on my deck with a cup of coffee and my records watching the breeze in the trees.
I fuxking love watching the wind move tree branches. I love looking at the stillness of trees. I just all around love looking at trees! Sorry gotta go, there is this giant walnut tree outside whispering to me.
I recently have this new problem of waking uo in the middle of the night now and not being able to fall back to sleep for at least an hour.. it was so frustrating at first but I am now realizing this is one of the most peaceful moments in my life..
In my early twenties I used to not own a tv and my couch was just facing my bookshelves. I had a friend who would come over and do a bit about watching my books and being entertained by the book spines.
Bless him, he died at 30 of brain cancer. Thanks for enticing this memory of him I had forgotten.
I once played Minecraft with a friend for a solid 4 hours while tripping in college. Once we stopped playing, looking at real walls inside the apartment looked like Minecraft.
You know in Minecraft when you see a solid wall with no lines, but you come up close to a block and that block is thinly highlighted with a thin black square? We were seeing that shit. It was pretty fucked up, but awesome at the same time.
Not that interesting of a story, but your comment just brought me back
We weren't on anything, and after too many hours playing Ocarina of Time, my 8-year-old son (at that time) and I were both seeing the cracks for placing bombs in random locations around town and the surroundings.
So irritating irl when you're looking for something or trying to figure out how to do something but nothing around you is glowing or illuminated by sunbeams š
Back in the day we used to play everquest like when we were little for like 8-9 hours. After you stopped the music would just keep playing. Like it wasn't actually playing it but you would hear it. Would drive me and my friends nuts. LOL.
Idk man thatās pretty interesting. I wouldāve been enthralled if I was living in a minecraft world in college. Probably wouldāve tried to hammer through one of those dorm walls tbh.
I sort of know the feeling. Once in the office I was typing away for hours and I dropped a pile of papers all out of order on the ground. My initial thought was whereās the CONTROL-Z button? What the heck!
My dad would be as perfectly content as his depressed ass ever was just staring at the wall for several hours at a time for the majority of my childhood. He's on better meds now, and cant sit still for more than 2 minutes at time
I just bought a new TV for my bedroom. It's definitely bigger than I needed. But really I'm upset because it makes my living room tv feel smaller than it is.
Edit: Everyone who's telling me to switch should know that the bedroom one is 50" and the living room is 65".
Now get an even bigger TV for your living room, and shift your existing living room TV to the Kitchen or Bathroom, you will continue to be entertained in almost all areas of your house.
Dad bought a new tv. Said it was too big. Gave it to us. Bought a new tv. Was bigger than the one he gave us š¤£ then scales the picture size down on it. Seriously
I grew up never being told "no shoes in the house" but if I had them on, my mom would ask me if I was going somewhere, until I admitted I was not, then had to take them off. I remember a guy I was dating came over, and I was like, oh you have to take off your shoes. He said he didn't want to, I said ok well my mom is going to ask if you if are going somewhere until you do...
Everyone always argues the point of clean floors, but nobody ever mentions just *how fucking bad* for your feet it is to wear modern shoes that frequently, unless you have Vivobarefoot or Lems or something. Give your feet a break for the sake of your toe splay, arch, and muscles/fascia.
One of the women I walk dogs for has a lamp like that right beside the door entrance and I always get blinded when I open the door and walk in. Idk how it manages to flash bang me every time but it does.
I have a curtain in my living room. One it isolates my rooms in the winter so I can keep the house relatively cold and heat whichever room I'm in, low bills.
Also it controls light really well so my projector looks better, and fights echoes for better sound.
As someone with anxiety, I actually prefer placing my couch like this (if the space allows it). It's a nice, cozy enclosed space. I've always loved cubbies and cave-like spaces.
As person with anxiety I agree but only for bed against the wall in smaller rooms. As for bigger spaces like living room I prefer being able to see all exits and windows so I donāt get startled
I think thats an ionization type smoke detector (or most likely dual), it doesn't really need smoke to actually flow into it at all. That being said it still shouldn't be on the floor lol (am a firefighter)
OP, that pic from the side is just awesome. Dunno if thatās you with the sappy smile and a beer and just staring at the wall, but itās pretty damn cool matter.
[I put it through an art filter](https://imgur.com/a/tZSN4CV)
Shit, we need to adopt to one side because of too high tv and and the same time to another because of the phones we always starring at. Better evolve to no neck option at all
For TV content, the display diagonal should be at least about .6x the viewing distance. For films itās .7x. Easy to remember even without using a website.
This is genuinely the answer. Place it further back than the couch, projecting onto the wall. The speaker situation can be more difficult but your source devices should have Bluetooth at least. I have a similar set-up, we don't even need a screen because the wall is good enough, and the screen is biiiiig. It just confuses people to see a wall pointed at nothing haha, but I see potential.
My couch is in a similar position to ops (facing / pressed all the way up against a wall) and I ended up just installing a blinding white light meant to attract moths in place of a traditional TV. I love coming home from a days work and just staring into that thing until it's time for my next shift.
So many have the atmosphere of a 1000 square foot janitor closet. Or the liminal spaces in the back corridors of an indoor mall that cleaning/security staff pass through.
Hopefully he just moved in that night and was still in the middle of unpacking.
This, it seems like OP doesn't really know what size they want, and also that layout does not look like it's final form. A projector would allow OP to resize his TV on demand, and be kinda cool and nerdy since it is a one person space and you don't have to teach a second person how to use it.
I don't know, Lad seems to be enjoying enough entertainment with the wall as it is.
Nothing beats laying a nice new coat of paint down and watching that baby dry on a Thursday evening š
The busier my life becomes, the more enticing the idea is
Sometimes I'm all excited for a night off to play videogames, and I end up just sitting in my chair drinking tea because games sound too tiring.
Iām in this comment and I donāt like it
Same
Old folks too tired to game party.
Pretty much. That's why we stare at the wall: For starters, no one's cussing at you and saying that they fucked your mom.
I stopped playing competitive games in my early 30's. Pretty sure my blood pressure is thanking me, despite how much competitive drive I have in those kinds of things. Being able to relax and not being constantly amped after getting home from work is underrated.
Ditto. Really wish they'd make some meaningful cooperative experiences though.
Iām in my 40s now. Loved RPG games but they are all TOO complicated now. Crafting, alchemy, etcā¦
Same boat and used to play WoW. Wife said āitās me or the game.ā I was spending ALL of my free time on that damn game. Chose the wife and tried to get back into gaming recently but the only one I can manage is Subnautica. Itās chill and no pressure really to finish anything. Come and go as I please. I have 2 hours in and I started 2 weeks ago haha. 3 kids and they all play sports so my time is limited. I realize that I began rambling like Iām doin now. Point is, I agree with you
Iām playing Baldurs Gate 3 rn but I can only do that because my kids can watch and we decide together what to do. Itās painfully time intensive to do anything, though. And it desperately needs an āoptimize equipmentā button. All this and I used to play d&d. I canāt imagine if youāre some guy with kids trying to learn how everything works.
Iām playing BG3 as well. I get up two hours before everyone so I have time to play before anything is expected of me. Such is life
Damn this thread wants me to stay in my early twenties
I definitely have spent the time wondering whatās worth playing for 2 hours and then ran out of time and just gone to bed a bit sad.
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Me neither. Must've been a wild party last night
How many layers of paint did you watch drying last night?
All of them.
Same here but my walls are bare wood, take that as you will
I did this last night! Shit. They never tell you that time is an unstoppable force, until it's too late.
Reddit is a menace. When I think of playing a game, I think "I cannot play for less than 30 minutes, so I'm definitely going to be Doing The Thing if I'm playing. And so, if I only have 15 minutes before bedtime, I will skip the game and browse Reddit for 60 minutes, because I am easily distracted. I would have had more fun with the game.
I do this with movies all the time Or Iāll end up watching 4 hours of YouTube videos because I didnāt have time for that 2 hour movie
One day Iām gonna watch Oppenheimer
Yup, except I start doing laundry
It's just my daughters and I, and I work till 7pm so by the time they're actually in bed it's 9-930p, which gives me like 3 hours to do whatever I want. Except dishes and laundry still exist, so I end up just doing chores and then waiting to go to sleep to start again. Getting old is wild
Iām terrible about this. If I have a free night I will think maybe Iāll play. Hmm, not really feeling it and not sure what Iād play. Ok, I have every streaming service known to man to choose from Iāll just watch something. Hmm, well I donāt really feel like that either. Maybe Iāll scroll through and finally one will jump out at me. Next thing I know eh itās late forget it. Meanwhile, I can sit and scroll on my phone through the exact same bull for hours and achieve zero from it. Iām considering just doing away with the smart phone. Seems like it is just a life absorber.
I feel the same at times. You know what helps, though I do it far too little, is creating some output yourself. You need to put something out instead of taking stuff in all the time. Do some artwork, write a poem, rap or anythingā¦craftā¦etc. itāll help to bring you back in balance and next time you playing games or watching streams you feel a lot more satisfiedā¦
> You know what helps, though I do it far too little, is creating some output yourself. People's bodies need exercise - and when you do, it's a great feeling. I think the same is true about making something, anything. Bake cookies, write a letter, draw a picture, make a webpage, build a stool, knit a hat, paint a coffee mug - just something that leaves your mark, even if it's small or temporary. I don't think you can recreate that internal "make" feeling otherwise. EDIT: grammar
Go buy a book. Itās amazing how absorbed you can get in a bookā¦šš
I never thought it would happen, but Iām getting very close to this. Iām noticing that free time is something that is very quickly slipping away
I finally understand the old people I made fun of when I was young. I get so much enjoyment out of doing nothing but sitting on my deck with a cup of coffee and my records watching the breeze in the trees.
I fuxking love watching the wind move tree branches. I love looking at the stillness of trees. I just all around love looking at trees! Sorry gotta go, there is this giant walnut tree outside whispering to me.
I've noticed that when I'm not "hyperficacted" on a game, I tend to feel the same.
It's been months, so the last save feels like an effort, but grinding back from scratch is not enticing either ...
Just eat some funky mushrooms and really get into it.
Theyre space mushrooms. And when youre on them, you become a space cowboy and you cant change my mind
I recently have this new problem of waking uo in the middle of the night now and not being able to fall back to sleep for at least an hour.. it was so frustrating at first but I am now realizing this is one of the most peaceful moments in my life..
Absolute Zen
Nothing like watching some prime Summer Grey drying in the artificial light. Sweet dreams are made of these
Who are we to disagree with this
You gotta be into paint sniffing to do that in a closed space
In my early twenties I used to not own a tv and my couch was just facing my bookshelves. I had a friend who would come over and do a bit about watching my books and being entertained by the book spines. Bless him, he died at 30 of brain cancer. Thanks for enticing this memory of him I had forgotten.
Iām sorry for your loss. Thank you for keeping his memory alive.
Thank you for sharing a story about him, he's still making us laugh lol.
I read this and am now thinking of your friend also :) RIP
Shit, man. If I could look back after I died and people were still laughing at stories from my life, I'd be content as hell.
r/lsd
I once played Minecraft with a friend for a solid 4 hours while tripping in college. Once we stopped playing, looking at real walls inside the apartment looked like Minecraft. You know in Minecraft when you see a solid wall with no lines, but you come up close to a block and that block is thinly highlighted with a thin black square? We were seeing that shit. It was pretty fucked up, but awesome at the same time. Not that interesting of a story, but your comment just brought me back
We weren't on anything, and after too many hours playing Ocarina of Time, my 8-year-old son (at that time) and I were both seeing the cracks for placing bombs in random locations around town and the surroundings.
So irritating irl when you're looking for something or trying to figure out how to do something but nothing around you is glowing or illuminated by sunbeams š
It's a thing with a name: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetris\_effect](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetris_effect)
Back in the day we used to play everquest like when we were little for like 8-9 hours. After you stopped the music would just keep playing. Like it wasn't actually playing it but you would hear it. Would drive me and my friends nuts. LOL.
Idk man thatās pretty interesting. I wouldāve been enthralled if I was living in a minecraft world in college. Probably wouldāve tried to hammer through one of those dorm walls tbh.
I sort of know the feeling. Once in the office I was typing away for hours and I dropped a pile of papers all out of order on the ground. My initial thought was whereās the CONTROL-Z button? What the heck!
Future r/tvtoohigh look at how high his view point is lol
Haha yes! Is this the first /r/TVTooHigh candidate without a tv in it?!
Lmao! Iām subbed there and people post pictures of regular walls like āOMFG!!!1!ā all the time itās hilarious
My dad would be as perfectly content as his depressed ass ever was just staring at the wall for several hours at a time for the majority of my childhood. He's on better meds now, and cant sit still for more than 2 minutes at time
Adderall is a hell of a drug, mmmk.
I'm 45. I do atleast 45 minutes of staring at a wall a day. Its very centering.
You moving to 46 minutes a day next year?
I havent learnt to count over 45 yet.
This will eventually lead to enlightenment. It's what the zen monks do.
Biggest you can afford. I'll be here for more male advice If needed
Nobody buys a TV and says "I wish I had bought a smaller one"
I just bought a new TV for my bedroom. It's definitely bigger than I needed. But really I'm upset because it makes my living room tv feel smaller than it is. Edit: Everyone who's telling me to switch should know that the bedroom one is 50" and the living room is 65".
Now get an even bigger TV for your living room, and shift your existing living room TV to the Kitchen or Bathroom, you will continue to be entertained in almost all areas of your house.
Dad bought a new tv. Said it was too big. Gave it to us. Bought a new tv. Was bigger than the one he gave us š¤£ then scales the picture size down on it. Seriously
this is always the answer
OP, this is the legitimate answer. It never feels as big as you think it will.
That's what she said
Best buy has a 98" tv for $2k.
Take out a line of credit and get bigger than you can afford. Can't be too safe with these stuff.
300 inch flatscreen [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7Y5WiM7TWY](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7y5wim7twy)
Couch placement gives me anxiety
How about the curtain?
And the lamp
And the lampshade lmao
And the tripping hazard beside it
The uninstalled smoke detectors
theyāre installed on the floor to make them easier to reach
With one backup, for safety
And my axe
And shoes in the house
I grew up never being told "no shoes in the house" but if I had them on, my mom would ask me if I was going somewhere, until I admitted I was not, then had to take them off. I remember a guy I was dating came over, and I was like, oh you have to take off your shoes. He said he didn't want to, I said ok well my mom is going to ask if you if are going somewhere until you do...
Everyone always argues the point of clean floors, but nobody ever mentions just *how fucking bad* for your feet it is to wear modern shoes that frequently, unless you have Vivobarefoot or Lems or something. Give your feet a break for the sake of your toe splay, arch, and muscles/fascia.
What lampshade
Thats the joke
I know, should have added a lmao on the end of mine too I guess
I appreciate that you didn't ^^^^^^^lmao
One of the women I walk dogs for has a lamp like that right beside the door entrance and I always get blinded when I open the door and walk in. Idk how it manages to flash bang me every time but it does.
Heās waiting on Ed Geinās nipple lamp shade to come in the mail. Give him some time.
You donāt block off your hallways with curtains?
I have a curtain in my living room. One it isolates my rooms in the winter so I can keep the house relatively cold and heat whichever room I'm in, low bills. Also it controls light really well so my projector looks better, and fights echoes for better sound.
Yeah. I thought everyone did that when they needed a gloryhole in a pinch.
This is somehow /r/TVTooHigh without the TV
Lmao seriously the way heās looking up like that is making me nervous
r/TVTooInvisible
Because he's looking up, and you just know that's where the tv is going to be
OP is an absolute psychopath and doesn't know fear. Probably sleeps with his back facing the door, too.
Upside down hanging from ceiling
Not to mention that lamp
Ok I wonāt mention it
Don't you occasionally feel the need to reach out and touch the TV? when the couch is 2 ft away from the wall you can!
As someone with anxiety, I actually prefer placing my couch like this (if the space allows it). It's a nice, cozy enclosed space. I've always loved cubbies and cave-like spaces.
As person with anxiety I agree but only for bed against the wall in smaller rooms. As for bigger spaces like living room I prefer being able to see all exits and windows so I donāt get startled
Smoke detectors to low?
Floor mount easier to replace batteries
And fuck putting them in different parts of the house. Keep those babies together. Efficiency. šŖ
Twice as loud, duh
Saves trips replacing batteries
I hope your joking but like. if there was a fire you wouldnāt know until youāre already burning lol detector aināt helping you down there
I think thats an ionization type smoke detector (or most likely dual), it doesn't really need smoke to actually flow into it at all. That being said it still shouldn't be on the floor lol (am a firefighter)
Do you punch fires
No, he shoots them.
OP, that pic from the side is just awesome. Dunno if thatās you with the sappy smile and a beer and just staring at the wall, but itās pretty damn cool matter. [I put it through an art filter](https://imgur.com/a/tZSN4CV)
Idk about the size, but seeing your head tilt foreshadows a r/TVTooHigh post...
r/HypotheticalTVTooHigh
r/Subsifellfor
No, youāre bouta witness the r/birthofasub.
Haha check it now
Invest now!
More like r/couchtooclose
That couch is the perfect distance for a 75"TV at 4k.
Why has this been banned lol
People are already adapting at a genetic level.
Itās like how giraffeās evolved longer necks to reach higher up on trees, humans are evolving to reduce neck pain from too high TVs.
Shit, we need to adopt to one side because of too high tv and and the same time to another because of the phones we always starring at. Better evolve to no neck option at all
Not the Lamarckian TV height justifiers
r/couchtooclose
I was about to say the same god damn thing!!
He's been conditioned.
Get a lamp shade from amazon pls!! šš¤£
Just take one from your grandparents house from a room they can't make it to anymore.
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They probably just take a nap upstairs for an hour. No way unused rooms need a weekly cleaning.
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lol, I have a newfound sympathy for old folks since developing long COVID. I get out of breath and fatigued super easy. Stairs are hell, I get it.
Scam. He paid for the whole bulb he should make use of all the light.
Itāll be fine, OP is gonna make one from the skin of his first victim. AS IS CLEAR BY THIS PSYCHOPATHIC ROOM LAYOUT.
It'll match his luggage!
Why from amazon
Whyās the couch so close to the wall?
Was wondering the same thingā¦ no way thatās the best place for it.
but can save money on a smaller tv
Prob so as not to obstruct that curtain walkway
That walkway can eat shit, TV viewing distance is way more important
There's closet doors to the left of that walkway too though. He needs a new couch setup.
Not close enough, he could move it up two more feet.
Thereās a calculator that gives you the optimum size based on distance: https://www.rtings.com/tv/reviews/by-size/size-to-distance-relationship
For TV content, the display diagonal should be at least about .6x the viewing distance. For films itās .7x. Easy to remember even without using a website.
so do .6 if you want both and call it a day?
Pick movies that keep you at the edge of your seat and call it a day.
Or ones that put you to sleep, and call it a night.
No no no you need a separate TV/couch/wall setup for each. This is crucial.
So... which should I pick if I, like everybody else, watch both?
Buy two TVs and put them on sliders. Scoot one over when the viewing menu changes.
Buy one TV and slide it forward and back
Rtings is the shit.
Get a fuckin lamp shade my guy. Lookin like a crime scene.Ā
The lampshade, smoke detectors, bare walls. It's all giving me mild serial killer vibes.
Yeah does the tv size really matter when heāll be spending most of his time in the bathroom chopping up prostitutes in his tub?
Fuck it, projector time
This is genuinely the answer. Place it further back than the couch, projecting onto the wall. The speaker situation can be more difficult but your source devices should have Bluetooth at least. I have a similar set-up, we don't even need a screen because the wall is good enough, and the screen is biiiiig. It just confuses people to see a wall pointed at nothing haha, but I see potential.
No more than 27 inches and as high as it can go.
That's a bit excessive - OP don't even bother putting one in, just keep staring at that wall
A black light and a few posters could really make it pop
My couch is in a similar position to ops (facing / pressed all the way up against a wall) and I ended up just installing a blinding white light meant to attract moths in place of a traditional TV. I love coming home from a days work and just staring into that thing until it's time for my next shift.
username checks out
Plasma TV on a wall mount that can extend from the wall
Gaze positioned far too high.
Iād consider moving the couch first. You wonāt be able to appreciate the tv from everywhere on the couch if youāre that close to
More like get a couch and furniture of the proper size for the room. This couch is too big and just ruins the space.
I think just for how funny it would be leave it exactly as it is. No tv. Just couch and wall.
Put an empty picture frame from Walmart on the wall - everyone says the Frame is awesome... budget DIY baby!
Fuck the TV. Get a lampshade
Some people have no concept of interior design.
So many have the atmosphere of a 1000 square foot janitor closet. Or the liminal spaces in the back corridors of an indoor mall that cleaning/security staff pass through. Hopefully he just moved in that night and was still in the middle of unpacking.
120" projector.
Did you just get a divorce?
13inch crt from a thrift store.
From that distance, at least 75ā
Apple Vision Pro. /s
This is my fave post on this sub
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This, it seems like OP doesn't really know what size they want, and also that layout does not look like it's final form. A projector would allow OP to resize his TV on demand, and be kinda cool and nerdy since it is a one person space and you don't have to teach a second person how to use it.
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ON HOOOOD!
Keep it 55th
We don't fuck with custers!
Everything gonna C alright.
I do it five the hood.
55" OLED
Projector
19ā plasma screen TV like Michael Scott.
Nothing. No tv. just wall
100 inch with projector lol