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Slimebeast said:
highwaystar101 said:
Slimebeast said:
highwaystar101 said:

I heard about this on the news and my feelings about it were dispassionate. A couple of years ago this would have really excited me. This discovery's made me reflect on an enthusiasm I think I've lost.

How come?


I don't really know. It's not that I don't care, I do. I just read this news now and I don't get particularly excited, it's more of a case of "Ok, that's been discovered, let's move on", where before I would want to explain it to everyone and argue about it.

I'm not like that with own field and related fields, I can still get excited about that.

Interesting.

Now slightly off topic, how do you feel about games nowadays? Not much excitement at all, right?

I don't tend to have fleeting interests, if that's what you're getting at. I'm still very much interested in science, as I said. I still read books and lots of papers (heck, I'm in the research game myself). I just don't have the urgency to post about it on forums or bore my friends with it down the pub anymore. To be honest, I feel that attitude was kind of pretentious now. I can, however, talk about my own work for hours on end.

As for games. I now restore and sell retro games/consoles as a profitable hobby, I've been doing that for about a year. I also occasionally play strategy/football management games in my free time. I never completely stopped, console gaming just took a big hit.