Weekender XLBS: How Do You Deal With Gamer Burnout?
February 4, 2018 by brennon
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First!!!! Yeah Baby …. unless Warren has snuck in a sneaky Haiku
No you definitely beat me to it this time lol
Your butt is welcome
Remember @higgy, my butt didn’t get one lol
Happy Sunday!
Well lute we have here! A light that burns twice as bright, burns half as long…and we have games that burn so very very brightly…err or something 😉
Good morning, everyone. 😀 Okay, to answer @warzan ‘s question – the US Marine Corps used to bolt those wooden planks on the sides of some of their tanks during World War II (I’ve recently been mildly corrected on which tanks exactly), not really to add any extra armor thickness (it’s just wood, after all) … … but to defeat Japanese magnetic antitank mines. So less like schürzen, more like improvised Zimmerit paste. The first Marine unit to really use this was Charlie Company, 4th Marine Tank Battalion, during the landings at Kwajalein in the Marshall Islands, February, 1944 (Source:… Read more »
Thanks @oriskany exactly as I thought all along mate 😉
“… Exactly as I thought all along mate …”
See that? We’ll make a historical grognard of you yet! (steeples fingers, sinister chuckle)
Yup Jim got photos of Marins Shermans like that, Think Warlord do a model. Though my hero Marine tank crew is the one with a Japanese tankette strapped on the back.Must have been an interesting conversation when he tried to get it shipped home.
Yeah, kinda figured Sam was gonna be Seal Club’d. Tho Justin had logical reasons to field the stuff he did, it was maybe subconsciously but undoubtedlt built to beat Sam at every turn.
I was cringing more & more throughout the *logical-ing* that was, to me at least, thinly veiled power-gamey. Maybe it was in good faith, but damn, even tho I don’t play MB:P, I could tell it was over before it started.
Blaster was here… no offense intended, just calling it like I saw it
Hmm, idea for non-Greek deities to “guest battle” in the Greek pantheon?
Lets get some Egyptians and Babylonian blood in there.
Isis and Ishtar vs. Aphrodite and Athena. Tag Team “bra & panties” match.
You’re welcome.
Soooo, that was a fallen AT-AT on the table. Someone spill the beans!
Happy Sunday!!
Happy Sunday!!
Sounds like it might have been an interesting topic today but for the first time in a long time Xlbs kept pausing,resetting itself to the start of the video or just went to a blank screen so sadly gave up
If your on a mobile device or tablet click the cog wheel and select 520p
That seems to help
Thanks
For a invading god maybe juptier or mars coming to put the final nail in the coffin for the greek god and firmly planting their sit on the table
fully on board for the Bootcamp
@warzan thought that might give you a boney part 🙂
It did mate lol
Gamer Burn Out – also know as Hobby Burnout
Interesting article I came across some time ago:
http://www.stevensavage.com/blog/2013/12/geek-job-guru-the-danger-of-hobby-burnout.html
Interestingly I don’t suffer gamer burn out as I don’t get to play more than once or twice a month … that sort of keeps it special. Hooby burn out as described above by the dashing and knowledgeble Mr @ultramarine40 used to be a problem for me until I got over it by having four projects on the go at once , and you just do what you feel like doing… It’s a hooby not a chore.
Only 4? You are doing better than me with the multi tasking as I reduced it to 2 only painting projects on the table at any one time to help me stay on task when I get Hobby time and actually get stuff completed that being 1 unit of infantry and 1 unit of vehicles max. For me it wasn’t so much Hobby burnout, more Hobby frustration as I had too many things started and only getting limited windows – stop – start – just fail really at getting any completions. Breaking these down into manageable smaller goals has seen… Read more »
I’ve hit this burnout issue. First it was miniature games last year. One day I couldn’t face the thought of another massive ruleset to learn, the cost and the painting of loads of new minis actually made me depressed. Finding people to play a new game was difficult as although you could teach people, very few people now seem willing to take on and invest in a a new minis game. I turned to board game, with cheaper costs, smaller rulebooks and less space required. I always loved painting and painted most days but two weeks ago I couldn’t face… Read more »
Good point about TV. My hobby life entered a new era about 4 years ago when we had massive work done on our home. Right at the beginning of the project the builders took out an external wall and severed our TV aerial connection. There didn’t seem much point reinstating it until we had progressed further into the build so I left it and left it and left it… We went without TV for over 12 months and it was amazing. My painting increased exponentially. I started a gaming club in my local town. I moved away from GW into… Read more »
Happy Sunday 😀 .
So when do @dignity and Mr Ronnie Renton go head to head in ( what i refer to as ) a ” Bard off ” ?
For burnout, I consider myself quite lucky. With work and everything, I get to play any game so rarely now that its always a novelty and enjoyable, my hobby is mostly painting miniatures now. However, when I get a bit burned out on that, I switch things up, and make a scale model of some kind. I find just changing subjects a bit works wonders. In fact, after I have painted a squad or two of miniatures, I always try and do a vehicle, or some terrain before I start on the next mini, again, breaking things up so the… Read more »
Well for me the guest God into Pantheon would have to be Blind Io from the Discworld, or any of the Discworld gods for that matter because they are essentially based on the different gods of history and so it would be good to see them matched up against their counterparts…:-)
This. All of this. Just… just yes. Discworld.
Hobby fatigue – have had it more than a few times. Biggest case resulted in a 7 year gaming break. Something I’d say straight off the bat is that your hobby time is your entertainment time. if you are not enjoying it or if it is feeling like a grind or like work then something is probably up. You might need to evaluate what is causing you to feel this way – if you can zero in on it being one particular aspect of the hobby process you can probably work out ways to address it. Without doing a full-blown… Read more »
Lots of good ideas here @evilstu
really great post @evilstu
happy sunday! now im on hobby time painting some elven union comission and having fun with episode.
@dignity wow you really pooped the bed on this one. it’s like you’ve never seen a tree in person, the star shapes one is maple (canadian flag) and ash is so different from many others that its really hart to mix them up. @warzan may I suggest that you take justin on one of youre walks, so he can see for himself that cows are not purple and sheep don’t wear really fussy pullovers.
p.s. I love all of you
lol @tosjeck I will have to drag him out with me for a ramble mate
Justin in codpiece
No tickets sold for boot camp
Sorry Game of Thrones
Would rather in than out of codpeice…..
Burnout is a fascinating topic. Something that is probably worth saying is that the solution for avoiding it is very specific to the individual. Personally variety is huge for me. Like Justin I cannot face playing the same game week in, week out. Board games don’t appeal to me as I know I cannot play them more than a couple of times before the experience becomes stale. Miniatures games offer variety of factions, armies within factions and variety of opponents. Much more exciting for me. My point? If you are not enjoying something any more, spend a few moments to… Read more »
How do you deal with gamer burn out? badly for the most part. The thing is when it comes to most gamer burner out I think comes from other reasons. For example, I have had wargaming burn out for a long time mostly because of the opponents in my area but when someone who is a mate of mine wants to have a game of any wargame I get really excited because I know we are going to have a good time. Like when I got tabled by my mate but I won on points in one game we had… Read more »
Rather than bad, I’d say opponents with a different mind set. But the point is very valid.
If you game for fun and the social experience and face off win at all costs net listers on a regular basis this is a recipe for misery certainly.
see I don’t even think it is netlists I think it is everyone being on the same page, I loved competitive magic and people playing netlists was super common but everyone was on the same page. I think netlists are a bit more toxic in wargaming because the average game lasts hours not minutes. But ultimately I think we agree, but yeah I meant bad I can accept different mindsets, but maybe if you met some of the opponents in my region you might get it ha ha…
Yeah there bad :/