I feel like I just stumbled onto a very niche type of video and I’m the only one here. I like it.

Hi Brother! Today I'm doing the Sunday morning shift at my job on a chilly, super quiet winter morning, and for a moment I felt like I was the only person alive in my city. Your video was a good company and very interesting, I don't know why, the context made it much more special.

Don't really know how I ended up watching this... but I'm glad I did. Great narration.

In another comment you replied you're glad your "ridiculously specific" idea appeals to people. I'd like to say I'm glad you saw it through. Many mainstream ideas start off as "ridiculously specific", and, sadly, never see the light of day for a fear of being as such. There's no telling how many ideas were lost this way. Again, I'm very glad for having the opportunity to see yours. Thank you kindly. :)

Philosophy and gaming! Perfect combo

The thing that gives me purpose and drive is kinda a type of goal-setting, but instead of setting deadlines or exact number of things I need to achieve to reach my goals, I set directions. For example, some of my goals include learning more skills, improving my health, becoming more successful, etc. This is vastly different than saying I want to learn this one thing, I want to go to the gym 4 times a week, I want to earn 100k/year. As stated in the video, reaching the specific goal feels like the end, and you're left with no purpose, but until you've reached the goal, you don't feel fulfilled or happy, since you're not at your goal yet. If you're 20%, 50%, or 80% of the way there, you've still not succeeded. The actual feeling of accomplishment lasts for a very short time before you feel purposeless again. When setting a direction there is no certain end goal because you can always go further, but since your goal is to improve or get better, every little step of the way feels like a win. I feel accomplished even if I improve 1% at something, and there is always a way to improve as well. Set directional goals, instead of specific goals. Hope this makes sense and helps someone.

Very cool concept and execution, well done!

I took a philosophy class in 2004, I forgot how enjoyable it was until watching this video!

I feel that being honest and telling the truth even if its not convenient is what I live by.

I was wondering if you arrive to similar conclusions as I and indeed you did. There are many ideals/principles one lives by forming the hierarchy of values. But I would maybe dare to wonder a bit further and offer a distinction. Because in introspection I see principles and drives (motivations). These principles are more like the overreaching rules one deems as central to a good, meaningful life. But they are not the impetus for action in itself. For example adherence to truth, recognition of reciprocity etc. These can produce motivation in reaction to it's breach, but usually not in default. What I see as my primary drive in life is curiosity. This is the one that does not need something violating my other values (endangering someone important to me, hunger, etc.). Even if my life was in complete tranquility, there would be impetus to learn something new. So basically I live to experience and learn. That includes that what I am capable of, how can I be useful, leading to lesser goals.

my goal is to be fulfilled, and sometimes, happy

Another great video. Can't wait for the next one

Duty, honor, country. And when I get home from work, I play Valheim. 😊

these are interesting thoughts. good video!

Wow! Idk what I was expecting when saw this video. Almoat passed it over... glad I didn't. Explains a lot. Especially my friends mentality and how it translates to life. Wild. Out of a game. But it is masterfully created. If you can't find hours of happiness in valheim, you probably won't in life.

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dude wtf did I just watch loved it insta like insta sub

How did the algorithum know i needed to hear this. . . Lol❤❤

there are goals that can have meaning without being able to be accomplished, lots of vocational work relies on that, there'll probably never be a time when we aren't trying to end world hunger, disease or invent and discover new things, there'll always be a next milestone, some way we could improve access to food, another type of cancer we can improve our treatment of or another more distant world to probe, these are goals that can't be expected to end or finally be accomplished, the pursuit is enrichment of itself

You need to release yourself from the quest of meaning and purpose . If you except thier is no meaning and any perpose you have is just a personal construct then you are a lot more likely to find some level of contentment . I look after 2 rabbits , they have no great purpose in thier lives , they don't seek neaning , they just are . I've learnt alot from them over the years

There is some degree of irony in discussing the philosophical understandings of purpose and meaning, while playing a survival game. I think that meaning and purpose become more self-evident, the further you move away from a stable society. If you were in a situation in which you were desperately foraging for food and water, on a daily basis, someone posing the question of, “what is meaning and purpose?” might elicit an angered response. It’s because in the face of desperation/self-preservation, pondering meaning and purpose is a luxury pastime. Merely posing the question publicly, would imply that you are distracted from other, more essential duties. So maybe meaning and purpose are more fluid than we are giving it credit for?

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Please find out how to use the object snapping mechanic in Valheim before uploading another building video haha

I was bothered by the first few second of the video.. the house not being properly supported drove me insane. 😅

Hey you should come visit my sandbox Valheim server! You would be welcome

Alec Baldwin needs to listen to this

The only reason to do anything is the sense of pleasure you derive from it, either by doing it, or by having done it. If result pleasure of having done it is not equal or greater than the time invested of having done it, we feel unsatisfied with the result. This is why gaming in the end is unsatisfying, unless you just have pleasure in the playing itself. When you're finished playing you end up with nothing, just a score on a scoreboard. It is why I don't like Valheim. The game was fun in the beginning, but the low level creatures end up just being annoying bugs to swat away, and with every new erea that opens up you just do the same thing over and over again. That is not fun, aka it serves no purpose. If meaning is purpose, then the only meaning to life is to have fun for as long as possible. You can do a fun thing endlessly, literally until it is no fun anymore, at which point doing that has lost it's porpose, it's meaning. Saving lives is not just 'good', it is pleasurable to feel good about having done it. Doing good is nothing more than stroking your own ego. It is masturbation.