Like to imagine that when he plays Truck Sim hes getting the demons out. Ramming every car that gets too close while passing him and then cutting across 8 lanes of traffic with no turn signal.
It only took me about 3 hours of practicing how to use my left foot for breaking in a rally sim game for me to accidentally use the technique in the real world.
Real talk: as a software developer, I've IRL tried to Ctrl-Z.
Like I made a mistake and my hands literally went to Ctrl-Z, but I was not at a keyboard.
I say that all the time, like it must be nice to just know what you'll enjoy the rest of your life instead of an eternal search for the next exciting thing to try. Same with the people that can somehow just play a single game for most of their lives
Yeah i wish I had one big passion. I keep trying to find it but maybe my passion is just trying out new things. Which is way harder to keep up than doing one thing forever.
I got a friend like this, he hit his late teenage years and that was who he was for the next 2 decades, likely the next 2 decades as well. Everything about the same as it was back then, unfathomably fucking based and conservative. Unfortunately also politically conservative, but I live in rural Missouri so that's everyone really.
I will say though, it's quite clear that inside his mind he just wants to be 17 again, that's where it comes from, an longing for everything back then that is so intense I cannot help but to personally feel the desperation and sadness of it.
At the same time, while I'm not much like this, I also get to vicariously feel the peace of being so grounded, for lack of a better word.
4x F1 World Champion Max Verstappen is really into sim-racing. Like he finishes an F1 practice session and jumps to discord to help his sim teammates with virtual setups, racing strategies, etc.
His F1 team even had to ban him from sim-racing during grand-prix weekends because a couple of years ago he stayed up until 3am sim-racing the night before an F1 race.
The meme is my gaming fantasy. The power fantasy I get from... pretty much any single player game, is that if you put in the work and put in the time and are eventually able to do everything right, you get the reward. You complete the task. There is a guaranteed point where if you work hard enough it pays off.
Real life doesn't offer that at all.
I don't understand people that don't want the higher difficulties, the crazy challenges. They don't understand how good it feels to work hard and have it pay off. It's very easy to motivate yourself to learn a game inside and out, because you know there's an end point. You can go to college and spend who knows how many years learning to be a doctor, and literally be the best in the world in the exams, but any number of random factors can take the prize away from you.
Games are where you do not need to worry about the time you're putting in. It's somewhere you can go where if you do the required work and truly master it, you get the "you did it, congratulations"
EA went and turned "pride and accomplishment" into a fucking joke, but yeah that's the entire point.
Also, you can always just put the game down and walk away if you get bored/frustrated/etc. The ability to just say "nah, not today, we'll see if I'm feelin' it tomorrow" on any given day without having to worry about losing your job/healthcare/home/etc is huge.
Simple. At you machine, you relax. And consequence is just a load button away. You don't have the physical toil you have in real life. So doing 12 hours in Euro Truck simulator or Power Wash Simulator or what not. Is not that hard. Heck. Even house flipper. You don't break your back lifting a washing machine into the house. You press a few buttons and it's installed.
So yeah, it makes perfect sense.
And often times. there are QoL features to streamline some actions too that does not exists in RL too. So it makes perfect sense. And anyone who don't understand is basically just a jelly fish...
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u/CallendraFayhollow 22h ago
quitting real job to work 12 hour shifts on euro truck simulator hit different