I was feeling like this around that age. 26 now and I have a career doing something I enjoy to do. Stay strong
Does anyone else here constantly, compulsively freak out about how rapidly time passes...
Adam Cooper
Jeremiah Butler
Early AVGN episodes are the worst for making me feel old
>Indianna Jones episode
>Mentions the 4th movie coming out
>11 years ago
James Evans
Thanks user.
Henry Stewart
>How do I slow down time, Yea Forums?
become an indie dev like i did. make a solo release, make 850k in a week, then live like you make 50k a year. i don't plan on working for at least 5 more years. realistically i could do nothing for 10 years if i wanted, and i'd still have enough money to slowly make another game, profit again, and have another heap of cash i don't know what to do with. time goes real slow when i spend most of the time on hobbies, or tanning in the sun. real jobs are a meme designed to turn everyone into a drone with no freedom. glad i never fell for it.
Asher Taylor
I don't even have time to think about time passing. 25 hit me like a truck. Hair thinning, eyes failing, brain slowing down, haven't been to a doctor in years. My only goal right now is to take better care of myself and be in the best shape of my life by 30. It's a wonder I'm not fat.
Carter Jones
The ever increasing length of the development cycle is the thing that gets me the most.
Taking Final Fantasy as an extreme example, when you have a game that somehow makes it up to 14 mainline installments, only for the fifteenth to take an entire decade to be completed. It's a little horrifying to think about the progression that franchises can make when they can take so long to complete (though on the other end of the spectrum there's games with yearly installments that just shit games out, like assassin's creed, fifa, pokemon etc)
Also, sometimes I think about game development on an axis of time. Like, most game series that started off in the NES days ended up the way they are because of their roots in the technology of the time, and because of who created them.
But if the technology hadn't been as advanced, or had been more advanced at the time, how different would the industry have turned out? Other series would have snapped up the genre niches and become iconic instead, or these genres simply wouldn't have existed to begin with. Things we take for granted today might have never worked out if they hadn't been working with the limitations of the time, even given the same ideas.
That time has passed now, it's impossible to create a new video game in the context of the 80s, 90s, or any other time from the present. There can always be more new games, but there can only ever be a finite amount from a specific era. Even if you try to recreate that feeling, it's still tainted by the context from the future.
Thinking about time just fucks me up a lot.
Cameron Carter
I spend all day doing nothing but time still goes fast. It can't be helped
Nicholas Williams
The reason why time seems to pass faster as you get older is because as you age you gradually experience fewer and fewer things for the first time. First experiences imprint themselves on your memory and make that time feel more solid and memorable. When you are a kid, you are constantly doing and seeing new things for the first time, and it seems like a year lasts forever. If you feel like time is just passing you by, it means you have probably fallen into a pattern of doing the same things and are not challenging yourself or seeking out new experiences.
Samuel Turner
V I D E O G A M E S.
Jaxson Adams
Thinking about anything fucks you up, that's the nature of thinking.