You ever hear that saying of ‘Too Much of a Good Thing?’
Of course you have, it’s where you have everything that you want and when you eventually have all that stuff, you have no idea what to do with it? Chances are you have some kind of streaming service, be it Netflix, Hulu, HBO Max, whatever…and even more chance is that you have more than 1…say 5 of them if you account for password sharing.
You ever just look at all these services and just say….’The hell do I watch?’ Or toss this in there, you have a video game streaming service like Xbox Game Pass…so many choices…what do you play?
Nearly everything is available to you at the click of a button. I may sound like the old guy here, but back in my day, we had to WAIT for the new TV show to broadcast on air or watch the TV Guide channel forever to see what was going to be on. I think gaming is highly affected by the this most though…when you have hundreds of games at your disposal, what the hell do you play?
I have Xbox Game Pass, Nintendo Switch Online, and Steam…and a real scenario is when I get bored with a game, I just pick another one, then I get bored again, and pick another….and you know what happens? I don’t really have an experience, I just sit there and pick pick pick and never really PLAY a game! It sucks! Back then when gaming wasn’t as attainable as it is today, we’d go to Blockbuster and have that ONE game to play for the weekend or maybe you owned 1 or 2 games, but never the vast libraries we have these days.
What I am getting at is that there are so many choices, all of the time, that eventually you get ‘Decision Fatigue.’ Where you are clicking, clicking, and clicking and never really pick something to watch or play. For some of us, we get maybe 1 night to watch a movie or play a game, so when you have 9000 choices and you start doing the cherry picking, before you know it, you spent the quick hour you have? Really doing nothing but scrolling and scrolling.
Maybe it’s just me, but there was something simple about keeping entertainment….simple!
