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Last Active 12-19-22 9:35 pm
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| Doof Vs Gamification?
I reached half a million scrobbles on LastFM (https://www.last.fm/user/Doofy-) which was always intended as a marker of sorts... | | 1 |  | Interpol
This Mirror Weighs a Ton
A month ago I went down to 20 apps on my phone, deleting 40 or so. Massive cleanse. | | 2 |  | The Tubs
Hard Life
The big move was deleting three fitness apps...I now don't track my fitness. Huge removal of a gamified element of my life. | | 3 |  | Lambchop
Punching the Clown
I've always had half a million scrobbles as the target to then reduce LastFM gamification - my library is now broadly reflective of what I've listened to in my life thanks to some strategic historic plays. | | 4 |  | Mastodon
Marrow Deep
These 'historic plays' were a fun exercise as usually I'd listen to these albums once or twice, often for the first time in ages, while building up the scrobbles outside of that, leaving playlists of albums playing in the evenings when I wasn't ever listening to music. | | 5 |  | Shearwater
The New World
Now I'm phasing that out, and I'd like to get to the point I check LastFM once a week or so, not daily. | | 6 |  | Warning
Rituals of Shame
I now have two CD players in the house and I've been playing CDs again for the first time in a while, that will also increase, might even purchase a few new CDs a year. | | 7 |  | Westside Cowboy
It Goes On
The even more difficult gamification, the final boss, is financial stuff. | | 8 |  | THUMPER (IRE)
Sleeping with the Light On
Three years ago I moved from gambling to investing - investing is basically the same but not as all consuming and nowhere near as stupid. | | 9 |  | Wild Pink
Still Coming Down
Apart from on holiday I find I check the markets and my account every day, and you tinker a bit, try and find more money to invest. | | 10 |  | Chat Pile
Who Loves the Sun
So that's the toughest one but I'll work on that one too. Screen time is coming down, gamification is reducing, feelin' good. | | 11 |  | Alex Cameron
Late to Set
List is digs. | |
DoofDoof
09.11.26 | Anyone else painfully aware of their online/app habits? | RVAHC13
09.11.26 | I had to look up what gamification meant, idk I don’t really use my phone for a whole lot other than listening to music and calling people who don’t ever answer.
I think I’m just gonna get a flip phone soon | Christbait
09.11.26 | I truly don't engage much with stuff on my phone other than listening to music, watching YT while I take a dump, or scrolling Instagram or reddit once or twice a day. I tried tracking my exercise but Samsung's health app was cumbersome and completely worthless when it came to tracking weightlifting and diet. It added work to my daily life and I wasn't going to put up with it. I'm also, personally, just not that diligent when it comes to that sort of stuff and rarely do apps offer any actual convenience to my life.
I'm 36 but I treat my phone like any other object in my life: it serves the purpose I set for it and that's that. I don't request much from it as I assume the majority of shit available on your phone is purpose-built to suck up your attention, steal your data, and overwhelm you with ads. | DoofDoof
09.11.26 | Christbait - you sound more sensible with it, less prone to the addictive qualities, and the impulse to track and improve measurables. As new things they really appealed, had the novelty, but it is time to peel myself away from them now I think.
RVAHC13 - on holiday I put my phone in the room safe in the morning and ignore it until the evening...got a kid so that is a bit too extreme for at home, but I need to try and ignore that I'm carrying the internet around all day, too distracting sometimes. | zakalwe
09.11.26 | Phone is used for calls, WhatsApp, Amazon, Sky Sports/TNT, Banking and a bit of internet but overwhelmingly for music.
Seeing parents gawping at their phones ignoring their children is soul destroying.
| Sharenge
09.11.26 | speak English, doc - we ain't scientists | Meborphus
09.11.26 | I didn't realize how time-consuming and unnecessary some apps were until I lost my oura ring at a concert. The data age is overwhelming. | DoofDoof
09.11.26 | 'Seeing parents gawping at their phones ignoring their children is soul destroying'
Yeah, I try my best with this, laptop is worse than phone with that.
Holidays and weekends I'm very good...weekdays the screen time can seep into the evening a bit, curse of WFH. | RVAHC13
09.12.26 | “Seeing parents gawping at their phones ignoring their children is soul destroying.”
It’s also infuriating how many of these modern adults act like spending time with their kids is such a burden. You either want to be a parent or you don’t, it’s not part-time work. | DoofDoof
09.12.26 | I’ve got some sympathy because parenthood is at least as demanding as a full time job and then now usually both parents also have a full time job.
So sometimes you do rebel and snatch some time for yourself.
It’s more the extent of that. Parenthood is a lot of fun though, my girl is at the age now we have a lot of banter, as she’s an only child I fill in the sibling role a lot…a lot of playing. She can properly throw, and she can really kick a football. Tough as nails! |
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