u/Zealousideal_Desk_93

I've been scrolling the best posts on this subreddit today and many of them look like they were written by AI. The irony is they got the most attention and little people if non noticed their AI nature. It's just junk and noise to exploit people and it's getting more prevalent every day and there is no adblock for AI content. Actually it's even worse than classic ads cause to see if the post is written by AI I need to read it first and maybe check the author's profile. It's just attention and time consuming. So lately I've been thinking that Reddit doesn't make sense anymore because of it. And staying away from subreddits about digital minimalism or minimalism in general is the best practice of minimalism. Cheers.

I broke my phone and recently I got a new one. I wasn't addicted to my old phone before cause I gradually reduced the use of it over the last year with no much friction, but yet I decided to have even fewer apps on my new one. I'm very lonely and I've gotten even more aware about it since I stopped numbing my feelings with entertainment and other digital distractions as much as I used to, and whenever I got a notification on my old phone I always got a feeling that somebody might message me, even though I knew that was unlikely, so when I checked those notifications they usually were from some Samsung bloatware app or SMS spam, so I felt deceived and even more lonelier and I don't like that feeling very much. Since I couldn't get rid of all non-human notifications, even though I'd tried, I decided to have no messengers at all, so I can't trick myself anymore. I even deleted them from my Desktop. Although I can check them occasionally on my browser. I'm in a board game club and they post info there whether our weekly meeting will happen or not. I have no problem with web-versions since I can open them only intentionally with some friction and with no notifications.

I'm an average player with no talent or exceptional skill and I play with randoms. I used to often run out of resources, even basic ones like green shields and ammunition and I had to go as Rook regularly to pick up leftovers, but lately I've limited my daily sessions to 2 hours max, it's been like this for the last couple of weeks and now I have an abundance of everything I might need. I never go with free kits, but I use quite minimalistic loadouts, always take a shield, a couple of nades, a green or blue versatile gun, I'm ready in less than a minute. I also don't get tilted anymore like when I was playing for 4-6 hours a day since I know my vault is packed, so now I play a bit more aggressive and if I die and don't get revived in a minute I leave, get ready fast and queue again, it's just rinse and repeat. So I don't really care if my teammates play poorly. And I notices this approach of having many tries in my limited time lets me learn faster. Also if I win I prioritize picking up shields and patch kits, cause these things either limited for purchase or just expansive to buy for currency. That's it.

I think the game is designed to make people play less hours a day, but log in every day. I used to play about 6 hours a day and always ran out of gear, money and resources for barter, and thus I had to play Rook occasionally, I also often got tilted cause even when I had money I couldn't buy stuff cause it ran out of stock and I mean like even basic green stuff like green shields, so it felt very frustrating. Now I limit my everyday sessions to about 2.5 hrs and now I have an abundance of gear and resources partially cause I collect my everyday free stuff from the fractions and I rarely buy all important gear up before my average session ends. I also feel like at this rate I will hit 100 level at the end of the season and that's fine cause there is not much incentives to play pass that level. I also feel there is a point of diminishing returns where increasing hours a day spend in the game doesn't yield the growth in skill, and playing regularly beats everyday volume in this case. Ofc there are outliers who are either talented or mostly play with stack, so neither of them lack gear or consumables no matter how much they play, but I believe that is a very small part of the player base. And again the point is the game seems made deliberately forgiving for average players like my as long as they keep their sessions short and log in regularly. It sounds like Marathon kind of respects my time and that rarely happens in online games these days. Or am I imagining it?