of course this guy’s from a michigan vs ohio state game i have always longed for both teams to have fun because the rivalry baffled me. its only game, why you have to be mad? unzip case, press button, hear ‘bloop,’ play video games. thats simple. do that instead of pining over the next gear for you to wait on.
or go back to preordering games, except instead of preordering you just don’t spend the money and eagerly watch the countdown with anticipation and let yourself form a neurotic pattern of “is it here yet? nope” with something you actually control, rather than constant void-filling consumption.
don’t get me wrong i am projecting but I am projecting from a different technological hobby than expensive fully compiled consumer electronics gear. (I genuinely enjoy the anticipation of something arriving in the mail and feel an abyss within my soul when it arrives that is not sated by the device.)
If you are like this, you’re not stupid. You’re not wrong. You like what you like, and there’s something more there to explore on your own time… But if it doesn’t fill the abyss then the next thing will not fill it either. You have to set the parameters of what you want in a device. If you want an OLED screen but operated under the information you had available, then you can operate within the recourses available to you to get one. For some, that’s a cancellation of their order and a reorder. For some, it’s a support return and refund. For some, who have had their steam decks for 24+ months of valve’s research and development time and have played hundreds of hours on video games on it and developed that same insatiable craving for device consumption, it’s a constant path of “discover new* (*note: make sure to cite the ORIGINAL arbitrary technical stat no one outside deep in the industry has used before 2018 was originally mused about in the 90s and used by esoteric deep-industry shit to make sure it doesn’t look too new) and point at an arbitrary alternative device’s arbitrary technical stat to try to avoid others purchasing it.”
if you have used ‘nits of brightness’ in the past 72 hours, I want you to actually get a fire extinguisher, an armful of candles, and a meter stick, then turn off your lights, and do an actual experiment. Light one wick, then measure out a 1Mx1M square on a white wall about a meter away from it. Stare at the square on the wall. Congratulations. You are now face to face with one nit of brightness. Turn on the lights, and watch how they wash out the square. Can you measure how different they are with your eyes alone outside of a lab setting?
Regardless, turn off the lights and start lighting more candles. Stare at the square, and contemplate how the brightness changes. Light another candle, and stare at the square until you contemplate how the brightness changes. Keep doing this until you don’t notice the brightness changing or until you get bored. You have now reached the maximum range your instruments allow outside of an optics lab.
Congratulations. You now actually have more experience with nits of brightness than anyone who has read a blog that talks about NUMBER X MORE NITS OF BRIGHTNESS ON SCREEN MEANS MORE BRIGHTER MEANS MORE BETTERER.
of course this guy’s from a michigan vs ohio state game i have always longed for both teams to have fun because the rivalry baffled me. its only game, why you have to be mad? unzip case, press button, hear ‘bloop,’ play video games. thats simple. do that instead of pining over the next gear for you to wait on.
or go back to preordering games, except instead of preordering you just don’t spend the money and eagerly watch the countdown with anticipation and let yourself form a neurotic pattern of “is it here yet? nope” with something you actually control, rather than constant void-filling consumption.
don’t get me wrong i am projecting but I am projecting from a different technological hobby than expensive fully compiled consumer electronics gear. (I genuinely enjoy the anticipation of something arriving in the mail and feel an abyss within my soul when it arrives that is not sated by the device.)
If you are like this, you’re not stupid. You’re not wrong. You like what you like, and there’s something more there to explore on your own time… But if it doesn’t fill the abyss then the next thing will not fill it either. You have to set the parameters of what you want in a device. If you want an OLED screen but operated under the information you had available, then you can operate within the recourses available to you to get one. For some, that’s a cancellation of their order and a reorder. For some, it’s a support return and refund. For some, who have had their steam decks for 24+ months of valve’s research and development time and have played hundreds of hours on video games on it and developed that same insatiable craving for device consumption, it’s a constant path of “discover new* (*note: make sure to cite the ORIGINAL arbitrary technical stat no one outside deep in the industry has used before 2018 was originally mused about in the 90s and used by esoteric deep-industry shit to make sure it doesn’t look too new) and point at an arbitrary alternative device’s arbitrary technical stat to try to avoid others purchasing it.”
if you have used ‘nits of brightness’ in the past 72 hours, I want you to actually get a fire extinguisher, an armful of candles, and a meter stick, then turn off your lights, and do an actual experiment. Light one wick, then measure out a 1Mx1M square on a white wall about a meter away from it. Stare at the square on the wall. Congratulations. You are now face to face with one nit of brightness. Turn on the lights, and watch how they wash out the square. Can you measure how different they are with your eyes alone outside of a lab setting?
Regardless, turn off the lights and start lighting more candles. Stare at the square, and contemplate how the brightness changes. Light another candle, and stare at the square until you contemplate how the brightness changes. Keep doing this until you don’t notice the brightness changing or until you get bored. You have now reached the maximum range your instruments allow outside of an optics lab.
Congratulations. You now actually have more experience with nits of brightness than anyone who has read a blog that talks about NUMBER X MORE NITS OF BRIGHTNESS ON SCREEN MEANS MORE BRIGHTER MEANS MORE BETTERER.
GPTL;DR: Enjoy simple pleasures, avoid excessive consumerism, and find fulfillment within.