This is absolutely not what I'm seeing. Travel is at an all time high with crazy amount of traffic jams, every weekend. Restaurants are full, parks, museums.. full. It is almost eerie just how everybody is going out and about like there is no tomorrow. I reduced my friend circle willingly, otherwise they would keep nagging me about doing stuff together, but I currently want to spend time on my own projects.
Yeah, this seems to match up with my observations more. Online spaces seem far less active, while real life tourist destinations and hospitality businesses are absolutely mobbed. Definitely feels like a high percentage of people are trying to 'make up for lost time' after being locked in during the pandemic.
I’m personally tired of how everything worth doing is already mobbed by others.
I blame the death of video games and media during and post Covid. The games and movie and TV industries are shells of their former selves, and are actively in decline right now. Why should I stay home to replay games from the 2010s (since nothing in 2024 is worth playing) when I can simply be part of the problem by going to the national parks or hot springs every weekend?
Plus, we all know that most people who are on the fence tend to regret introverted activities since they are “nerdy” and the opposite of glamorous. Going out to a national park is a chad move, staying home and doing introverted stuff literally keeps you a virgin (and this bears out in sociological data)
Murders on the Yangtze River, Animal Well, Nine Sols, Snufkin, Chants of Sennaar, Slay the Princess... I could go on for a while. How are there no games to play? Those are all recent and fantastic.
