paxenThe Hedonic Treadmill
I’ve definitely bought myself something more than a few times to try and fill an emptiness inside. It makes you feel better for about a day or less, then you go back to feeling how you did before.
It works better of you buy something that has additional positives. Like a new oven and cooking more often or something to do sports.
But ya, I know that feeling.
Exactly, like a 10gbe nic to transfer all those pics you never take faster to your server, or maybe some heatsinks for your nvme drives so the degrees go down a little and you can see some data on benchmarks change a little
Or that video game that is on sale in the off chance you remember to play it later if you happen to be browsing your 200+ game library.
Which game will make me feel any sort of desire to play a game again?
I’m always looking for a game that is the perfect mix of like two games