The worst entertainment setup ever!
So you're watching your favourite fantasy series about dragons or magic or whatever, and you're really into it. You're immersed fully and the world around you has faded out of existence. Then at the bottom of the mountain marches in a... banner ad for the new show coming next.
Welp now that immersion is gone and you've been distracted. That sucks, doesn't it? But after a few minutes, you can get back into it and get immersed again, no biggie. This is how distractions are for many people. Quick interruptions that can be dealt with and promptly forgotten. Oh, you sweet summer child...
You see my banner ad isn't a banner ad. It's another tv, and it doesn't go away! Actually, it's a whole wall of TVs. I think in some respect everyone has a wall of TVs, distractions in life they can't prevent. A car horn, a rude coworker doing something you don't like, the smell of food when you know you're running late and can't stop.
But for most people, this wall of TVs is usually off or muted. There's the main big honkin' game day watching cinema-quality 90" quantum plasma laser dot TV in the middle with Dolby audio. That's our main life, our focus at any given moment, the biggest thing we need to do. But then there's a bunch of TVs for food, video games, daydreaming, romance, thoughts of depression and anxieties, curiosities, and all the tasks you haven't gotten done and stuck on the 'backburner' to never be finished but always nagging at you.
Most people will choose to mute all but the main tv. Some have broken remotes for food or music or other distractions, they can't control these and have to turn the volume as low as possible before returning to the main screen.
The problem is my wall of TVs is ALWAYS ON. Absolutely EVERY screen is constantly trying to grab my attention and pull me away. And the harder I try to listen to the big one, the louder the smaller ones get. The remotes are all gone, and I have little to no control over volume. Power consumption is through the roof. The worst part is if I give in to a smaller screen, all the other screens lower the volume or mute entirely.
As much as I'd love to do this for all of them, it only lets me hyper-focus on bad distractions. It's so easy to give in and slip into a distraction just to enjoy the silence of a good hyperfocus. I can immerse myself in a video game until 5AM and barely realize how long I've been playing. But just 5 minutes of focusing on homework is excruciating and extremely draining. I can't tune out all the other TVs so I just force myself into a state of overwhelming burnout until I give in and take a break for the rest of the day or week or month. If I could just get some half-working remotes, I'd be able to push through so much work, but alas I have the worst entertainment setup ever!
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