how many of you have gotten off of work or school and you sat down to game you only have an hour or two and you cannot decide what to boot up and want to play you sit there looking at your steam Library so many games you've never tried from Steam sales past or maybe Xbox PlayStation switch wherever you play and you just cannot decide what to put the time into you know this 1 hour is precious you know you need it to recharge your batteries because school work whatever it is is coming again tomorrow you
end up staring at the screen and eventually just pull up YouTube binge and then your hour's gone and you kind of feel horrible why does this happen and I want to talk with you about it because this has been happening to me recently is it the fact that you're getting older is it Nostalgia well I'm going to sort of break down my thoughts and opinions on this now I've been pretty sleep deprived lately I've started working nights everything's super expensive and so my time for gaming in the last 3 weeks has been very compressed and
I literally have gone through the scenario I just described where I know I've got an hour of available it's a precious hour and yet I cannot figure out for the life of me what to boot up I want to get the maximum enjoyment out of this time because I know it's so limited and as such when I look at the list of games I begin putting a bunch of pressure on myself and that pressure makes me even less motiv motivated as I'm sleep deprived to ultimately make a choice sometimes when we're presented with way too
many choices it's been shown that our human psychology just gets overloaded and we can't make a decision we get stuck in analysis paralysis and for many people if you've been gaming a long time your library can get big very quickly it doesn't mean that you don't enjoy games or that you just don't know how to have fun anymore it just means that the pressure is overwhelming you especially when you're tired you know you don't want to take a chance of picking something that you don't enjoy or like what if you wasted that 1 hour and
this leads us to indecision now I used to play Starcraft 2 a lot when I was in college loved Halo but at the time Halo was being taken off of the MLG circuit around Halo 4 time and around that same timing Starcraft 2 was becoming the darling of uh MLG and also twitch and Justin TV at the time and then ultimately it turned into twitch and I loved Starcraft 2 but it is a game where you have to make hundreds of choices every single minute in fact they measure the choices and the actions that you
make in a term called APM actions per minute and crazy good Pro players will consistently play at like the 3 to 400 marks sometimes jumping up now every action you know is considered like a click or a box or building a building selecting a resource but when you watch a talented Pro you really do see that they're making hundreds of decisions in such a small time frame and you know what a lot of times they make the wrong decision when they're under such immense pressure in a game like Starcraft there isn't always the time to
sit there and think and debate really what is the right choice ultimately they're having to go with their gut reaction and I learned when I was playing Starcraft 2 sometimes you just have to make a choice whether or not it's the right choice doesn't always matter you don't always have the time sometimes just making a choice is the right choice and sticking with it even if that decision led to me like stemming my Marine Army into a bunch of banelings and losing the game it was still better that I made a choice rather than sitting
an indecision cuz I probably would have lost the game either way I've been doing YouTube now for 10 years over 10 years actually I started in college and one thing I have learned and that's something I need to hear regularly and I hope you hear this too stop putting unfair pressure on yourself and on your free time if you want to play a game just boot anything up there isn't a wrong choice seriously maybe you didn't pick the ultimate perfect selection and you didn't get the most enjoyment out of your hour but just giving yourself
some U time to recharge is what matters hey and also if you boot up the game and you don't feel like playing it and you want to just watch YouTube or whatever go do that you need to hear this you're doing good you need to be nicer to yourself when we reach this point where we're putting so much pressure on ourselves and our free time you are probably at a stage right now in life where you are stressed and there is a bunch of stuff occupying all of your mind space and literally the best you
can do is some self-care and to literally when you have those thoughts of like what if I'm wasting my time with this choice just push back right against it take that thought throw it in the recycle bin of your mind there's nothing wrong with going back to a comfort game something you've played 10 times over something that you love something that you know gives you some enjoyment at the same time too if you've got a big backlog screaming at you the game that's been nagging and you're like ah I just got to finish this game
you know I got 30 hours into it I feel really bad I didn't finish it everybody loved this game look if you want to go finish it sure but don't don't force yourself you're not having to write a book report on on a title like case in point I'm playing through Elden ring second time right now I've talked about it a few times on the channel I'm loving the second playthrough way more than the first time I thought the game was brilliant when I was playing it on the Xbox when it came out but I
wasn't looking up guides I was getting overwhelmed and I I stopped at the game I'm not going to say exactly where but pretty pretty far into the game and I didn't feel motivated to pick it back up but here I am looking at all these videos online about what an incredible perfect amazing superb game it is feeling pressure like oh man what did I what did I do I I need to go back and finish it I'm totally missing out on all this stuff well screw that you know unfair pressure right it took me two
years to go all right now's the time I'm starting a fresh playthrough and because I was at the spot where I wanted to not because of social pressures or online hype or popularity because I wanted to at the time I enjoyed that game 10 times more this is your reminder be nicer to yourself stop putting pressure on that free time don't worry about making the wrong choice and try and refill and recharge when you get the opportunity I look at the audience demographics and the ages of my viewers and I know these are periods of
time where life is hard and stressful your responsibilities are growing exponentially so many things are changing whether you're fresh out of college or you're having a kid or something like that a lot is changing and so any opportunity you get to refill and recharge you should go for as long as it doesn't disrupt obviously the really important things and in many ways this video is just as much me talking to you as it is me talking to myself to remind me that when I'm looking at that steam Library feeling guilty I don't need that just
Boot something up that I love and run with it so with all that said I hope you have an awesome start TI your weekend play something fun recharge do whatever and we'll see you again in the next one [Music] [Music]
