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[–] [email protected] 49 points 5 days ago (3 children)

Have attention spans dropped that drastically? Holy hell.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 5 days ago

Absolutely. Many shows need to pad to 43 mins to fill an hour with ads, and it's mostly wank

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago

Sorry, I didn't finish reading your comment but it's true: I look amazing in this outfit!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

They have not. Media conglomerates take advantage of the fact that our surviving ancestors saw the suddenly appearing saber toothed tiger before the ones that didn't.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 5 days ago (2 children)

gives up and goes to bed even though it's 7pm and I haven't eaten yet today

[–] [email protected] 38 points 5 days ago (2 children)

I think that's just depression. Sorry to be the one to break it to you.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 5 days ago (2 children)

sorry to be the one to break it to you

Take a quick look through my post history

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 days ago

That was pretty tongue-in-cheek. I assume we all are like that here

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Wait, going to bed early is a sign of depression? Or the not eating part?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 days ago

When you go to bed because the alternative is trying to force yourself to do things you once enjoyed to kill time

When you get into bed at 7 pm and don't manage to get out of it till 11 am

When you don't feel hungry but you haven't eaten in a day or two and you know you should and people would want you to but you can't bring yourself to go make or get it and not eating feels satisfyingly self destructive

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

Thankfully now I can be mostly asleep for 15ish hours, it was hell when I would go to bed at 7 to avoid existence and would wake up at 3

I should really just unalive myself and get it over with, things are worse than when I started drugs and therapy and there's no way things are going to get better. Things don't improve unless you improve them and I've tried and failed over and over

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

I can't say I've been there, but as another person on the Internet, I can say that sometimes failing a lot is the only viable path forward and it sucks. It's the famous quote about the invention of the lightbulb, it took over 1,000 attempts to get something that worked well, and when asked what that felt like to fail so many times, Thomas Edison is attributed for saying, "I didn't fail 1,000 times, I discovered a thousand ways not to make a lightbulb."

So I guess I'm saying to keep finding ways that don't work and I hope you do get your lightbulb soon!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Gets up to get my 8th meal of the day even though it's 3am

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 days ago

The best part is that both can be caused by depression!

[–] [email protected] 19 points 5 days ago

Glad I’m not the only one

[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 days ago (2 children)

I urge you all; just watch one screen. Its all you have attention span for anyway, and youre just gonna end up unsatisfied trying to do both at once.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

I need to know who's downvoting this and why

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

If it's a good show sure. Some shows are just so bad you get distracted.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago

Can't relate

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Me but with audiobooks. I listen while driving home. A thought might distract me so I’ll hit back, only to get back on the train of thought while I wait for the audio to get to the part I missed. Only I’ll miss it again and have to hit back again.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Then you miss your exit but it's too late to turn back now so you start your new life in a new country

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago

Did that last night. Went from 11 minutes to home, to 25.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

That's why I can't listen to audio books. Driving takes way too much attention. I have a set of driving podcasts which don't need much attention and it doesn't matter if I miss a bit

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

For me audiobooks makes the drive tolerable and enjoyable. I don’t find them distracting, rather I get distracted from them at times because of thoughts of work or needing to focus on dumb drivers around me.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 days ago (5 children)

I just want a button that rewinds 10-15s, turns on subtitles, and then turns them off when it catches up again. It's a pattern I do manually with some regularity.

I suppose with Jellyfin/OSS, this is something I could implement myself if I was so inclined...

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Most of the apps on Roku have a 10 second rewind and you can set subtitles/CC to be on resume which means they only stick around for about 10 seconds or so.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago

A bunch of platforms have this. I think all Roku apps support this and I noticed on Apple+ on Chromecast I think.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago

My Roku used to do this, but sadly my NVIDIA shield doesn't.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago

Omg yes same

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Why not leave the subs on all the time?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I can't have full-time subs, I can't read and pay attention to the show at the same time, even though I can read fast. I just impulsively read the subtitle over again.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago

Anime and gaming trained me just for this

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

Because it covers some of the screen and is distracting? I actually prefer subtitled anime, but not if it's a language I understand.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 days ago (1 children)

If you're on your phone I'm not telling you what happened and it's not getting rewound.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago

In that case we're only watching really good, full attention required stuff, no light fluff

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

it wont be long before theaters will have to have two screens, one for the film and one with subway surfers gameplay

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 days ago

Sometimes this is me not solving the problem, sometimes it's the show/podcast/audiobook having a boring/poorly explained pocket as a lead-up to something important.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

This is why I despise those that constantly check their phone when watching something.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago

I absolutely did this the other day. Right in the middle of a boring ass scene they casually dropped a huge plot point.

I've also missed stuff during uncomfortable parts and just let them go.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago (1 children)

So, uh, I don't know how to tell you this, but it sounds like you're an addict. You should consider taking days off from your phone. Like, 100% powered off. The false sense of urgency your phone provokes destroys your productivity and makes you less happy. You gotta unlearn that reflex.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 days ago (1 children)

yes, addiction. totally not ADHD. nuh uh, not one bit.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

I mean it can definitely be both. Speaking from personal experience, and most people ive known with adhd, it tends to make you way more prone to addictive behaviours.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago

quiet sound of me putting my jacket on to leave this person mid-film

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

My OH goes mad at me for looking at my phone when watching stuff.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

I’ve done this multiple times, today.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

I blame cable/broadcast TV. It's impossible for me to stay focused on a show because there were always recaps after commercial breaks.