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I once did 15 hour days Mon-Fri, 9 hours Sat-Sun, and my mental health has not recovered since. 

 

It is weird, because you get into this obscure state where you think you are having fun. 

 

For me it is not just incredibly unhealthy physically, but when you put the breaks on and go back to some sort of normality, you feel worthless, lazy and feel a barrage of other emotionally destructive things that are hard to recover from. 

 

I feel for my wife the most. I am certainly not the man she fell in love with. Hopefully one day I will be back to the positive chap I once was! 

 

I am just so sad to see that this mindset is still a thing, and bragging about it (when he has only himself to answer too and likely makes stupid money) is just fucking gross. 

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29 minutes ago, SuperCapes said:

I once did 15 hour days Mon-Fri, 9 hours Sat-Sun, and my mental health has not recovered since. 

 

It is weird, because you get into this obscure state where you think you are having fun. 

 

For me it is not just incredibly unhealthy physically, but when you put the breaks on and go back to some sort of normality, you feel worthless, lazy and feel a barrage of other emotionally destructive things that are hard to recover from. 

 

I feel for my wife the most. I am certainly not the man she fell in love with. Hopefully one day I will be back to the positive chap I once was! 

 

I am just so sad to see that this mindset is still a thing, and bragging about it (when he has only himself to answer too and likely makes stupid money) is just fucking gross. 

Have you thought about trying counselling? I found it so beneficial I am now training to be a counsellor. 

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On 04/09/2022 at 12:10, Stanley said:

Have you thought about trying counselling? I found it so beneficial I am now training to be a counsellor. 

 

Nice Dude, that is awesome! 

 

I have tried it before aye. Work sorted me out with one, and have had others privately. Gave me some perspective but it is hard to remove my headspace from the industry if that makes sense. 

 

I should have left the industry when the salary was terrible. The benefits of working from home and other factors boosted it to the point where a career change would hurt us too much. Especially when we are hoping for kids in the near future. 

 

It is tough! I love my bosses now, but it is easy to spin down, and get stuck in a shame spiral where I feel useless so end up doing nothing and procrastinating myself into mental oblivion. 

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On 04/09/2022 at 11:39, SuperCapes said:

I once did 15 hour days Mon-Fri, 9 hours Sat-Sun, and my mental health has not recovered since. 

 

It is weird, because you get into this obscure state where you think you are having fun. 

 

For me it is not just incredibly unhealthy physically, but when you put the breaks on and go back to some sort of normality, you feel worthless, lazy and feel a barrage of other emotionally destructive things that are hard to recover from. 

 

I feel for my wife the most. I am certainly not the man she fell in love with. Hopefully one day I will be back to the positive chap I once was! 

 

I am just so sad to see that this mindset is still a thing, and bragging about it (when he has only himself to answer too and likely makes stupid money) is just fucking gross. 

 

Do you work in games? I would recommend trying to look for an out, to take the skills you've aquired and see if you can transition out of it to something else. 

I worked in games, and shifting out to the IT MSP business was - by far - the best thing I ever did. 

 

It always sounds like a hard thing to do, but it really can be done. 

Once you've been out of the nonsense for a while, have real HR and normal working hours you'll wonder how you put up with it all for so long. 

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I remember leaving web development in 2005 after eight years to work in education. On the first day everyone got up to put their coats on at 4:00pm and I asked if they'd all gone cold suddenly.

 

"No, we're going home! lol"

 

"Are you fucking kidding!?"

 

"Umm, no?"

 

":o"

 

It wasn't even in my nature to ask about the working hours. I'd taken nights for granted by that point.

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On 30/09/2022 at 14:40, MansizeRooster said:

Just pre-ordered on Amazon. Cheaper than ShopTo or Base.com.

 

Is this not a AAA/AA game? It seems strangely "cheap" at £45, compared to the other big hitters coming out the same time.

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Just now, pledge said:

That's what I mean, so wondering why its launching discounted. Not complaining, I just ordered it, but wondering if there's a reason other than trying to be competitive.

No idea, Resi 8 wasn’t extortionate either and that was definitely AAA. 

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I dunno, nothing I’ve seen so far looks remotely scary to me. Most of the enemies shown are your typical buffed-up, slightly deformed, aggressive humanoids that don’t tap into any real fear. The tone is a bit shouty, everything screaming ISN’T THIS SUPER FUCKED UP?!? at you most of the time. It’s severely lacking in weirdness. 

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Scariness has always been a very subjective thing.

 

Some hands-on previews were released last week.

 

https://www.thegamer.com/the-callisto-protocol-hands-on-preview/

 

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The thing you don’t really get about The Callisto Protocol until you get your hands on it is just how exhausting it is. I know that doesn’t sound like a compliment, but I mean it as one. Striking Distance Studios has crafted one of the most oppressively hostile and laborious survival horror games ever. Dead Space is a Sunday afternoon in Disneyland compared to the 40 miles of gore and shit The Callisto Protocol makes you crawl through. It’s immersive in the way a nightmare you can’t wake up from is - you know it’s a dream, but every nerve in your body is firing off as though it’s real. Even as a Resident Evil super fan, I finished my hour-long play session in desperate need of a cigarette and a ray of sunshine. I thought I knew what to expect, but this merciless abyss of carnage is a full-tilt assault on the senses right from the jump. I assure you this is not hyperbole: The Callisto Protocol isn’t just a next-gen survival horror, it’s a meaningful and much-needed evolution of the genre.

 

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I have gotten games before that are scary and noped out almost immediately.  It's just too exhausting when I'm supposed to be having fun.

 

Yet I will do the same boss battle literally 30 times till I beat them. 

 

I am that kind of person who falls for even with the most hack jump scares, as my wife looks at me with incomprehension and disgust. 

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I am conflicted. On one hand, I’m all up for a good old misery-crawl through a game, but they’re really piling emphasis on just how awful it is - and in my experience any medium that sets out to be horrific just ends up feeling hollow.

 

Like art for the sake of art or violence for the sake of violence it sort of needs to mean something. I’m definitely pre-judging and all that, but from the above it sounds like a world of shit from the word go.

 

It just sounds like a recipe to desensitise the player.

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