#RandomThoughts #Chores #AnimalCrossing #FunvsChores
🤔 Have you ever wondered why we hate doing chores in real life but find them enjoyable in video games like Animal Crossing? It’s a peculiar phenomenon that baffles many players, including myself. As we navigate through our daily lives, we are constantly bombarded with mundane tasks like laundry, dishes, and cleaning. These chores not only consume our time but also drain our energy and motivation.
🎮 Enter Animal Crossing, a popular game where you live in a village with anthropomorphic animal villagers and spend your days completing various tasks and chores. From fishing and bug catching to gardening and home decorating, the game is chock-full of activities that mimic real-life responsibilities. So why do we willingly engage in virtual chores when we despise them in reality?
1. Escapism: 🌟
Animal Crossing provides an escape from the monotony of our everyday lives. The game offers a temporary reprieve from our real-world responsibilities and allows us to immerse ourselves in a whimsical world where chores are not burdensome but rather enjoyable activities.
2. Instant gratification: 💫
In the game, completing chores is rewarded with immediate gratification in the form of in-game currency, items, and social interactions with villagers. This instant feedback loop reinforces positive behavior and motivates players to continue accomplishing tasks.
3. Creativity and self-expression: 🎨
Animal Crossing encourages players to express their creativity and individuality through customization options for characters, homes, and villages. By allowing players to design their virtual world, the game transforms mundane chores into outlets for artistic expression and personalization.
4. Sense of accomplishment: 🏆
Despite being virtual, the completion of chores in Animal Crossing gives players a sense of accomplishment and satisfaction. Progressing in the game, building relationships with villagers, and transforming your surroundings contribute to a feeling of productivity and achievement.
In conclusion, the dichotomy between real-life chores and virtual chores in Animal Crossing highlights the power of escapism, instant gratification, creativity, and a sense of accomplishment in shaping our perception of tasks. While we may still grumble about doing chores in reality, the game offers a refreshing perspective that turns mundane activities into meaningful experiences. So next time you find yourself avoiding chores, consider picking up your Nintendo Switch and indulging in a little Animal Crossing magic. Who knows, you might just find joy in the process of tidying up your digital village. Happy gaming! 🎮🌟
#ChoresInRealLife #VirtualChores #GamingTherapy #Escapism #SenseOfAccomplishment
Stop devolving showerthoughts with garbage. This thought is so worthless, it’s mind blowing you thought it was worth sharing. It’s common for videogames to make things fun that actually arent in real life, and we dont need a shower thought for every single one.
You’re not doing chores tho.
Your digital slave is being ordered by you to do them while you snack on chips and relax.
I guess everyone like to be a boss lol
I don’t mind chores. But I live alone and it’s not too bad. As a kid? Yeah, I hated it. Nowadays, I make my bed daily and ensure my sink has no dishes before bed.
It doesn’t consume a bunch of energy and yields frequent rewards. The same cannot be said of chores.
No we don’t. Some of us find it as tedious as real chores, only pointless too.
Speak for yourself. I found Animal Crossing to be boring and pointless.
We?
I find that game boring as fuck. Not for me
OP is gonna be amazed when they learn about console and pc gaming.
I do not find it fun.
Because I find the chores relaxing I just don’t find someone else forcing me to do them at a very specific time relaxing
This is something I’ve even learned about myself ever since moving away from my parents
Used to think I absolutely hated chores and cleaning and all that kind of crap but turns out it’s actually very relaxing. It can be calming to come home from a day of work and just spend like 20 minutes cleaning up the apartment or something or vacuuming or whatever. Turns out there’s pretty much no stress to cleaning when you don’t constantly have your mom yelling at you that you have to do it right this second because the entire world is going to end if I don’t get off the Xbox right now and pick up that piece of paper off the floor
I can choose to clean when I want to and because of that it’s very relaxing and comfortable
I think people just want the feeling of control over their lives. Animal crossing has chores, but YOU are the one who benefits from the things you do in that game. The game also follows a fair system where you get your own home, and the things that come with it.
…and socializing… hmmmmm
People don’t mind doing chores in games because it’s not actually doing them but it’s still staying busy
Animal crossing is mindless drivel to distract you from the fact your house is a mess and falling apartg around you
One is a video game designed to be fun and relaxing and one is real life and requires effort.
I like Call of Duty but you don’t see me going into active war zones.
Not everyone likes AC. It is probably one of the few games I genuinely thought was a waste of my life and time. Cute to look at though and the museum was cool. Tried to broaden my horizons (badumts) so I played it.
The reason is because with chores, we have to do them. With games that have cleaning or chores in them, they’re 100% by choice.
You choose to do that in the games because you want to. In real life you have no choice.
My favorite part is that the goal is to pay off your mortgage being held by an aggressively upselling salesman
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“we all find it fun” is a big statement, how many people did you ask ? certainly not me
I play Stardew valley in a way my wife describes as “chores: the video game.”
Runescape is this x100, but people still love it.
One reason people don’t like chores is the risk of messing them up. But if you mess up in a game there are no consequences.
Being forced to do things makes them less appealing.
Tom Nook is evil. Chores are a part of life.
People only hate chores when it feels pointless. They just want their effort to mean something / progress them toward something.
Chores like fishing and bug catching?
Finding fossils?
Designing clothes?
Buying art?
What chores are you talking about?
I have run into the same paradox with World of Warcraft.
I don’t want to tidy my house but I will gladly go and gather items for a quest giver.
My dad doesn’t beat me with jumper cables if I dont do my chores in Animal Crossing.
Maybe if I was working to pay off my debts to a raccoon and not the government, I’d be more eager to do chores.
Same with games like power wash sim and viscera cleanup simulator. I reckon it’s you get the satisfaction but without the physical exertion, which makes sense to me.
Some of us also find Animal Crossing boring
I mean not everyone does, I’ve never had any interest in playing Animal Crossing and neither does literally anyone I know
cuzz pressing A to chop a tree is easier than actually doing it
Yea but games reward you for doing them
Cause you do it while on bed
I like doing things that is perectly fine to walk away from for days or for ever without backlash at all. That I do because I can if I want, that feels fun, interesting, etc but don’t have to. Remove pressure and I’m building and doing cool things.
Force me to do so, from early morning or when I am already tired from doing other things and I’m less happy. Especially if I have to use my body, wasting it on non-fun pressured labor.
I wonder if I can gaslight myself into enjoying chores by telling myself this world is simply another layer to the animal crossing cake.
Everyone hates ~~chores~~ labor.
The Sims also be like that.
It’s the not moving from the couch that makes it better