You Don’t Like The Easy Life, I Can Prove It - With A Video Game!! [Ep. 67]
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- Survival mode vs Creative mode, challenges vs no challenges, no matter how you cut it, we crave challenges more than relaxation. 💥More below!⬇
More people play in Survival Mode than not, by a wide, WIDE margin. And that says something about human beings. And it should give you great confidence and inspiration in taking on challenges in creative projects and in life itself!
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My wife put it to me as: People don't respect things they didn't pay for.
I think this is pretty true. 🍻
This is why you never buy your children a car. Or anything expensive. The cost, or effort, creates respect.
I do the same thing with painting. No matter how slow I am, I can't stop futzing around on my minis, despite desperately wanting to just paint something fun and simple. One of the awesome things about Minecraft is that it helped my son learn a lot of resiliency and lets him get frustrated and angry in a safe way.
Ah that’s an interesting note about safe frustration!
I feel your pain about the painting thing. Been there, bought the T-shirt! I presume you enjoy a few of the major mini-painting channels? Did you consider trying to limit your time so you force yourself to focus on what's important; after a few reps it might help you to be able to switch to that specific mindset to get simpler things done and out of the grey army (or I should say, pile of opportunity 🙂). Alternatively, maybe lean into your tendencies and start working exclusively on display/hero models?
Very interesting about your son and Minecraft! I'll file that away in my mental bank of details about some of the valuable ways that computer games can help us real-world. FPS games certainly helped me improve my coordination and reaction time in my 30s, and that has stayed with me into my 50s.
@@tungsten_carbide My current plan is letting myself go ham on character models but making myself batch paint the troops. Let's me scratch the "try hard" itch, and it helps me figure out shortcuts that I use on the troops.
Yeah, Minecraft and similar games have been great for giving him ways to express and deal with emotions with lower stakes. Also it has been a great barometer of how he is doing emotionally. He used to hate survival mode because it stressed him out so much, but now he starts new survival worlds regularly.
My beautiful wife calls it a "love of labor". But it's not the destination, it's the grind! Fortunately...chaos IS my wheelhouse!
Lol a great wheelhouse to be in! 🍻🏴☠️
Growing up in the 80s we had 3 TV channels available to us. Once or twice a week they would play a movie, sometimes a good one, most times not that great. Whatever was available. Except around New Year. Then you would get 3 days of movies, cartoons and TV shows, almost 24/7. I remember waiting for the NY edition of newspapers which had the entire TV schedule for the Holidays and then I would spend hours highlighting the stuff I wanted to watch and basically organizing my schedule around it. It was just epic. And I would stay up until 3 am and wake up at 7am next day just to catch some of the things that were on. For example, the whole Indiana Jones trilogy (back then it was still just a trilogy and this became a NY tradition for me ever since, to watch the movies).
Fast Forward to a few nights ago. I couldn't sleep so I logged in on Netflix and turned on Maverick. Great movie, especially for a kid who wanted to be a fighter pilot (or a space fighter pilot). But all I had to do to get it was press a few buttons. And I can pause when I want to get a drink or go to the toilet. Don't get me wrong it was still great but I miss that feeling of running from the toilet and jumping over the couch because the commercial break ended and the movie was about to restart, pants barely being held up by one hand, and let's not talk about what those stains are, we can just say I got splashed by the water while I was washing my hands...
Lol I love this, so many images here from my own memory!! I saw Raiders on my neighbors TV because somehow they got an academy award VHS screener that has been played like 1000 times and it was glorious lol!
Also, we grew up “in the late 1900s” 😉😂
@@tabletopalchemy Saying it like that makes me feel like a distinguished and seasoned gentleman, rather than just old 😁
Its a matter of pride. Its a bragging point. Good vid.
This turned out to be the thing with the movie model building for me. It was almost always hard. And it almost always felt like I had accomplished something at the end of the day.
Yep I remember it was always like “We gotta build what? How we gonna do that?” Lol
Oooh gosh I don't think about this the same way at all!
I have no interest in games being hard, mostly because the loss of progress feels like a waste of my limited time (and tangentally, sandbox video games are too undirected of an activity for the limited time I have for games).
But my tabletop hobby is fuelled by the notion that the things I'm taking time to craft have purpose beyond me making or painting them - they're game pieces! Getting to use them to tell unique stories that don't look like anyone else's is much more of a motivator to finish a work than the work being hard to make.
This is a great point - I think ultimately I’m just trying to get over the idea that no matter what I wanna do, it’s gonna be tough in some way. And typically in ways I don’t foresee even if I try to 😂🍻
The obstacle is the way... stoic book by Ryan Holiday... exactly what you are talking about!
Oh nice I shall look it up! 🍻
In a world of ambiguity we must be masters of adaptability.
#trudat lol 🤙🍻
I need that outro edited in 80s Ignatius-wave. For A E S T H E T H I C C C purposes.
😂 I can hear the neon synths now!
I was gonna say that it's the prospect of beating a challenge or obstacle through testing myself that is the thing I enjoy, not really the struggle itself... then I recalled going to a geek convention and signing up for a workshop in sumi-e ink painting (I'm one of those multi-talented artists that takes to new arts with relative ease). It's one of my absolute favorite convention memories, because I absolutely suck at it. It simply isn't one of the things I could pick up and do. I can recall sitting in that workshop thoroughly enjoying sucking at it and trying to learn the basics, complete joy of being outside of 'easy mode'. I later adapted some of the techniques to other mediums (charcoal, watercolor, or pencil) with more success, but I still suck at the traditional artform, and it makes me happier than I ever would have been if I had show any aptitude for it the first time.
Can’t get more positive than this lol. 🍻🍻
Further proof that people are insane 😛
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Loved your ramble. I think we are all in survival mode; some managing better than others. I'm clinging on by my finger tips, but still here to watch you and Rowan Witchbane on a Thursday night.
Lol fingertips is sometimes just enough! 🏴☠️
Here’s to Survival Mode with a Razor Blade Grin! 🤩
Eyyyy, Axe Harbor! I miss that place.
Creepers are job creators.🤣
That is an excellent way to put it lol!
The single biggest reason I quit playing 5e. It's easy mode. There's no threat, no tension. Course it's also why I start many projects but don't finish them. But we're not here for that!
Lol - ignore that over there, it’s irrelevant! One question: could you run a 5e game with higher threat/tension within the current 5e rules? 🤔
@tabletopalchemy nope. Zero interest in 5e. Not only do I dislike the superhero vibe, but I don't like the mechanics. Just total burnout. I've moved on to games like Forbidden Lands or Electric Bastionland. And even though I haven't played it yet, I've been surprised/intrigued by Shadowdark.
These are all low hp, low magic, OSR-ish games that scratch the rpg itch for me. 5e 'is' a good game, but it's a superheroes game. I don't even like superhero movies anymore!😆
@dirigoallagash3464 lol I get that, I haven’t liked superhero flicks for a long time. I do tho thoroughly enjoy Logan!
Something that isn't earned has no value.
Another thought provocative take on life. Your film works must be unique also. Thank you and please keep these creative thoughts coming.
Hmm - I really only think about making something fun like raiders of the lost ark lol. But maybe with some interesting philosophical concepts stirred in 😉🍻
Interesting rant! Creators need to create! Learn from the challenges- even if it all disappears when the computer gliches- overcoming obstacles is life- bliss is fleeting- and boring! Face it! You hate boredom!
Yes!! 🤙🏴☠️🍻
LOVE that you know about Minecraft. I wondered why you played Lego so much but didn't seem to know about the way better experience. Thanks!
🤣 pros and cons to everything! 🤙
Interesting as ever. There's been a curious shift in psychology theory relatively recently linked to dopamine in the brain. It used to be considered that we get that dopamine high from completing something difficult; beating a challenge. The current theory is that we actually get the dopamine from the process and the activity to do the thing, not complete the thing. Hence, actually completing a thing can actually feel anti-climatic.
I’ve experienced this for sure. My (admittedly “student film quality”) first feature won a top award at a (very small) local film festival. That night was an extremely fun high point but it was so fleeting as to be ephemeral. And it was immediately back to “the grind” lol.
Excellent insight. Really resonated with me. In my fifth decade, it finally dawns on me that the destination probably isn't the main point. It really is the experience and journey getting there.
Thanks for an intriguing video!
lol funny how it takes so many decades right? 🍻
So true! My hubby and I love survival games but there comes a hump and when you get over it being hard the drive to keep playing diminishes. diminishing return maybe for me in the hobby is after I have primed and completed maybe 80% of it and then burn out? I don't know if it's that I got over that hump or it is that ugly stage in the build where I just need to push and finish and say to myself it will look OK when done. I notice if I only put one model or project on my desk although I don't work on it everyday I usually finish it. where when I put several models on the desk I end up finishing more but maybe pushing one of them aside and not really finishing it cause for some reason it didnt thrill me like the others? where if it was done alone I would have finished it.
Yeah that damn ugly stage lol - def just have to push thru it with the confidence that u know every project starts or goes thru that phase! I suppose it’s all about faith at some point lol.
I enjoyed this one immensely; I think you're right here for sure, and it _is_ something I need to be more mindful of and embrace... or at least try to. Yes I remember what Yoda said about that 😁
I'm loving your content; your thoughts into the more cerebral aspects of what we do are super insightful and very entertainingly presented. Now I just need to find the relevant video where your huge improvement in mini painting was demonstrated so I can compliment you on that like I intended to!
Lol, I’m in search of that video too😂 But thanks, I’m glad you enjoy the rambles lol! 🍻
Wait, wasn’t this the plot of The Matrix? 😂
Ha! Jeez, probably … 😎🍻
@@tabletopalchemy Maybe not the WHOLE plot but I think it was a plot point- the matrix was based on reality because the computers tried to make it a utopia at first but the humans weren’t having it. 😆
@AwkwardBirb yep that’s about right - and a lot of us might choose the “easy” life lol (I would, if I could fly 😂)
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Loved the ladder, lol!!
😂 I don’t why I couldn’t get putting that in there outta my head lol.
The easy way out. Nope not for me. When Skyrim came out with survival mode I was all over that. Having to eat and sleep and even take damage from the elements gave me a huge thrill. I am on ;my third run through on it now. I just change the type of race I want at the time and go for it. As for my minis. No I don't want them pre painted. I have the tools and the time I will do it. Even on a professional level I will sometimes do that. I need that glass breaking sound FX. I don't like what is on the CD's Well I just go to the garage. LOL
We all need that glass break effect lol! 🤙
Yeah, no. I have more ideas than lifespan to bring to life. 😂
Oh yeah I know lotta folks in that boat. Even that I find a bit sobering lol.
When those kids say "you should make it more aesthetic" they mean "you should make it more "stylish," or maybe "artistic." It is grammatically wrong, but "style" and "aesthetic" are often synonyms, and it's a short leap to "stylish" and "aesthetic" as synonyms, hence the confusion. On the positive side, we can't educate anyone worth a damn these days, and "aesthetic" is hard to spell.
Lol I keep looking to see if the old adage “the more things change the more they stay the same” is still holding up😂
@@tabletopalchemy Haha, I appreciate you acknowledging my feeble joke. I subscribed to your channel for a terrain build video, and I have stayed because you provoke philosophical musings on the nature of art, creativity, and games. And at least once, grammar. So thanks!
In my neck of the woods,, it's labelled 'waiting for the other boot to drop' and perhaps a corollary to that saying is 'bad things come in threes.' But as we all know, Murphy is an optimist.
Waiting for the other boot has been my mindset for a long time lol - I want to change to “the boot’s coming, bring it!!” Lol
@@tabletopalchemy Your content now is the one I'm looking forward to the most each week. Thanks.
"Life is hard. It's even harder when you are stupid."
~ John Wayne
Often true but sometimes … sometimes stupidity somehow gets some folks by lol
You are, of course, absoulutely correct, @@tabletopalchemy. This is exactly the reason I play No Man's Sky (free weekend, btw) in Perma-death mode.
Interesting that you recorded this on my birthday :D
Serendipity is a thing! And the universe is not what we think it is 😉
@@tabletopalchemy What do we think it is? "What we know will always be eclipsed by what we don't know"
@3nertia this is pretty true!
It's not an accomplishment if its easy.
I keep telling myself that. 😐😂🍻🏴☠️
People think the dunning kruger effect is just dumb people thinking they are smart. This is a gross oversimplification. Its actually a feature of human psychology. We overestimate our capabilities. This is crucial. Our reach must exceed our grasp or we never learn our limits. Failure is built into life and has been with us from the beginning. Its a strange kind of ally.
Also when i do something that sucks to do, i make a game out of it. Play is the easiest way to get though difficult things. Feel free to disagree its just how i see things.
I can dig this for sure. I have also often tried to make a game out of stuff I didn’t want to do … but I’m a terrible game designer lol.