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this post about the parallels between people being lost in Guild Wars 2 and being lost on Cohost was a really interesting read but now I'm just pondering my own MMO habits, as someone who holds GW2 dearer to my heart and considers its open-world and combat design to be superior to any other MMO, but plays FFXIV more these days

and I think its mostly because my equivalent of "doing aerial mount tricks for three hours while listening to chillstep" is "doing various group content with people for hours on end while listening to banger fight themes," and it's much easier to hop into and out of instanced group content with strangers in FFXIV. (there's the big open world content in GW2 but unless you're like, piloting an armor in Tarir, it's harder to feel your individual impact.) up until I began doing savage, I pretty much ignored the tomestone grind in favor of rolling the trial roulette dice over and over, or occasionally terrorizing alliance raid roulette by springing Orbonne Monastery on them.

I used to try to do all of my dailies, all of my WT journals every week, all of my custom deliveries, etc, etc... and it made me fucking miserable, actually, to be going down a list of chores when really all I wanted to do was shoot a Big Dude in the face with my gunknifelasers while internally screaming at that one DPS for fucking around and finding out. eventually I decided, you know what, I make myself do enough things I don't want to do IRL. I already spend a lot of energy bear-wrestling my ADHD over my house and work chores. why am I subjecting myself to the same thing in my entertainment?

so... I stopped! I just let my ever-distractable, short-sighted, marshmallow-devouring monkey brain take the lead, at least for this part of my life. and it actually hasn't been the end of the world to lose out on a fuckton of scrips or exp or what have you. the one thing I actually still keep up with is capped tomestone grinding, and that's only because I can treat it as an afterthought and go "oh shit it's the end of the week and I still need to collect a hundred more bad jokes hard drives, time to hop on a hunt train and also get a bunch of materia for my recreational melding habit" sometimes I do get the impulse to actually go fill out my sticker book or whatever. but if the impulse never comes, I just don't do it. and it's been fucking great.

I'm not sure where I was going with this. I'm sure you could probably read it as some kind of metaphor for social media use but it actually isn't one. I think if there is a takeaway, it's mostly me going "huh, I'm actually now playing FFXIV a lot like how I've historically played GW2" and "man I get why it's not a thing, but I sure would love duty finder in GW2"


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