Hello, welcome to Dystopic Multiverse,
and today I want to talk about withdrawal.
The beginning of this year, in the month that has passed since I recorded my last video, lots of things happened, it's been a busy month,
many good events, some very bad things, and I had no time really to dedicate to RPGs, I read little, didn't play or watch videos...
Pretty much nothing whatsoever.
And in this time I was already able to notice some signs of abstinence, which is somewhat funny as it's only a psychological dependence,
but some things I got to see, study, whatever in this period helped me develop a picture I consider very interesting
about this issue of psychological dependence and the consequences of withdrawal from it.
RPGs as a hobby, like any hobby including physical exercise, releases neuroreceptors that cause pleasure.
For RPGs specifically, there are psychological components of creativity, being rewarded for an effort, the social aspect,
and all of those have strong influence.
In any scale or specific aspect, every hobby has that. If you practice martial arts, if you go to a shooting range and spend the afternoon shooting,
if you write something, or go out with your friends and drink beer, each of these ways of having fun cause a different reaction in your brain.
Human beings as social creatures have this social contact aspect in high relevance neurologically.
For me, it's been a long time since I last swimmed a little seriously, like 10 years, but when I enter a swimming pool and
swim for 15 or 20 minutes I feel very well, in spite of knowing my body doesn't answer as well as before, my hydrodynamics aren't the same,
I still feel well. When I take some time to train a kung fu form or something I still remember, even though the time I trained in my life
is a few times over shorter than the time since I stopped training, that still satisfies me.
If I take an instrument to play, be it a bass or a guitar, I enjoy it, I really like music a lot!
But the way I miss it is different for playing and for playing with a band. That's something I think is very interesting, really
the way that playing with other people, even if it's the same song and I'm executing it exactly the same,
those people make a difference in the experience.
There are documentaries and studies on how professional athletes or members of the Military suffer, feel pain,
psychological and social pain but with the neurological aspect of real pain, when they retire and move away from it.
Even though an athlete can still play in a random pick-up game, for instance, and execute at a similar level,
the team relationships are sorely missed.
So the pleasure componente, and consequently the dependence, doesn't depend only on his performance but a lot on the team issue.
This brought to my mind the situation of RPGs, and how if you're playing a computer game, even if it's an RPG game,
it doesn't give the same satisfaction, in spite of the difference in immersion and having some better developed aspects,
at least for me it doesn's give the same satisfaction as playing an RPG because of the collaborative experience.
That's very curious, I think this idea of social pain seems very weird, at first, but I believe that any person who has had
some romantic disadventure in their teens knows that it is possible to feel pain due to something like this.
the lack of a person or whatever.
So making an analogy between these situations, it makes sense to feel this longing and suffering for something that's just a source of fun.
Evidently it depends on the intensity of your addiction. A person who plays once a month or every two weeks will feel it less than
someone who plays everyday.
A person who is always in touch with RPGs, through reading or videos or whatever, will feel it differently
compared to someone who plays every once in a while just as an excuse to get together with friends.
In a not so recente video, sameøldji mentioned he stopped posting and that he felt a bit rusty
in relation to RPGs because he hadn't played or read them in several months, so he wasn't so immersed in the hobby.
And damn, does that make sense! Personally, to manage to record a new video I spent a long time just thinking
"I want to record a video, I want to record a video, what can I talk about that I haven't already and that I feel confortable with?"
Withdrawal!
I do intend to get back into a rythm, really get better at this and revive this channel, etc.
So... This is it. Just a short video to get in motion again.
Thank you for your patience and I'll see you soon.
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