Hi, I’m Jack.🤷‍♂️ chronically unserious, cautiously cynical.

Customer/User Experience Specialist/Consultant

(rant incoming, not a personal attack on anyone, please do what you enjoy)

i think I'm more concerned with the dopamine hijacking than the gambling.

gambling itself hijacks dopamine ofc, but flashing lights and fomo and status games make me grind my teeth with rage. 

i am not interested in consumerism or tokens or free money. 

i am interested in doing what I want with my life and having fun with my friends. 

everything in the world wants to masquerade as those things — and they are incentivized to make me believe it's real and true. 

it's not.

it's bullshit and dark patterns and psychological warfare — and i would just as soon torch my entire online life than allow space in my brain for a fucking spinning wheel I have to tap five times a day just for 7¢ worth of ad space trying to sell me another attack on my attention. 

bc none of this shit has real value.

if it did, it wouldn't need to rely on dark patterns.

maybe someone'll say that's naive but ill still say fuck off: build something useful.

Playing casino games on your phone literally makes you hate your life.

Your body can only respond to so much dopamine in a day, so if you waste it on stupid Internet games then you'll get less satisfaction from the actually meaningful things in life.

The dopamine hijack is exactly the cost that you pay by succumbing to the dark patterns of the Internet. 

I honestly don't even open Warpcast throughout the day because the dopamine hijack of just scrolling the feed sucks life out of me right through my eyes.

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💯 agree. It's wild how much a difference it makes just not looking at a screen for the first few hours in the morning. Sets a different vibe for the rest of the day!

There will be studies about this. I do feel for our generation there is no understanding of what it was like before 24/7 cyber dopamine hits