"He doesn't care about money, political influence, or bathing. Just games."
Does he care about games? I used to watch him years ago, but then he turned into a misogynistic drama farmer and rage baiter who occasionally plays games.
I guess I can see that, but I never said that it is cleaner. It's the same for me. It's not dirtier. It's not cleaner. It's only faster. Eating the banana sideways might look weird to other people, but there is literally no advantage for me to eat it normally.
When someone tells you that they finished a book in a really short time, the first thing you think is probably that the book is really good and they had to like it. You probably don't think, "oh, that's not really reading. You technically just skimmed through it, you don't know what you even read."
Some people read faster. Some people listen faster. It shouldn't be that surprising.
I don't know what to tell you. It looks like to me that you seem to think that somehow I am wasting my enjoyment of the media. Or that my consumption of the media isn't the right one or
fulfilling or something like that.
As I said before, I can understand everything. Why should I listen to or watch something in normal speed? It's just a waste of time in my case.
When somebody can hit a target that is 300 meters away, why would you tell them to shoot at the target that is only 100 meters away? What's the point in that for them?
I don't know if that is a good analogy, but I don't know how else to explain this.
When I am cooking, cleaning, etc, I listen to audiobooks. Not at those same speeds as YouTube videos. Between 1.25x and 1.8x, depends on a narrator again.
At first I watched every YouTube video on 1.5x for like 6 months.
Then I watched everything on 1.8X for another 6 months.
Then 2.2x and so on.
Now I watch everything between 2.8x and 3.6x, Depends on the talking speed of the person in the video.
I can understand everything.
Of course I watch some videos in normal 1x speed but those are usually just like artistic videos or movie trailers and stuff like that.
If there is just a person talking to the camera, there is no reason for me to watch it in normal speed.
Yep, Muskrat is playing Frostpunk and completely ignores anything that doesn't make him money.
Edit: Actually, not a very good comparison. Because in Frostpunk, you are actively fighting for your survival. Elon probably doesn't even know what that means.
I really wanted to like bookwyrm and use it but it's just so bare bones.
Instead, I switched from goodreads to StoryGraph like two years ago.
I really like some of its features like content warnings, moods, very detailed stats of my reading habits, etc.
I use Steam Chat for playing games with family and friends. It has better audio quality than discord in my opinion, and you can make groups (something like Discord servers) too. It doesn't have all the functionality of servers, but the basic idea is there.
I am actually surprised nobody mentioned it yet Why use some third party application, when you can use the Steam's one.
It's not like the OP is concerned about privacy. They were using discord. They didn't say it has to be open source.
For talking outside of gaming or away from PC, I use signal.
I listened to the audiobook last year. It was amazing. Best superhero stories I have experienced. Better than marvel or dc imo. But what do you mean trilogy? Worm is 7000 pages long. Which is like 15 books. Then there is sequel "Ward" which has 9000 pages. I didnt read this one yet. I heard it isn't as good as the first one. Maybe when I will have more time. As far as I know there isn't anything after Ward.
There are 2 audiobooks for Worm. One is older, fan made. Where every chapter is narrated by diffrent person, mostly guys I think. I didn't listen to this one. I like consistency.
Second is new. Fanmade too. Finished last year. Narrated by a woman, which fits better when main character is a woman too. Only interludes are by diffrent narrators. This one is very good. The narrator isnt perfect, but better than some professionals I listened to. It is 170 h long. I finished it in less than 3 weeks.
I just turned off notifications for everything, except Signal and banking apps. Most convenient solution IMO.