SoloRPGs, Anti-Optimization, and the Case Against Efficiency (How to Waste Your Time Well, Part 2)

(link to part one below) Hello friends, it is my birthday today and so if you'd like to get me a present, please consider using my affiliate links for ‪@NobleKnight_Games‬ and ‪@DriveThruRPGs‬ : Affiliate Links: https://www.nobleknight.com/?awid=1506 https://www.drivethrurpg.com/?affilia... Just clicking on those links and making a purchase after that will do a lot to support the channel –as well joining our discord! For $3.99 a month you can join the man alone Seal Team Waffle Alpha discord server which is essentially the discord version of skull and bones at Yale. Also, if you haven’t picked up a set of my solo dice oracle Prima Materia from Dice Nest, please see the link below (they are beautiful and the oracle is a cute lil booklet!). Besides this being my birthday is also my 350th video, and so I make this appeal not to line my pockets but to help me to keep pace with the schedule for the next 350 videos as I am working on spending less out of my own pocket to support the channel this year and it helps me to keep up the pace. I have been making videos at which is an average of 2 1/2 videos per week lol I love doing this and can't wait to make this appeal to you again for my 700th video. As for the video: this is part two of my attempt to explain why solo roleplaying matters so much to me. I know there are lots of videos like this but this is no boiler plate explanation, and– This is hilarious to say given the topic – but it links together a long chain of influential thinkers. Part one of the video if you care to watch it can be found here:    • Vampiric Judo, Apex Predators, Desublimati...   Using the work of Peter Watts, Michel Foucault, Jacques Lacan, Herbert Marcuse, and Byung-Chul Han, I explore modern ideas of power, freedom, desire, optimization, and burnout, and why many of the activities that make life meaningful seem more and more difficult to justify in a culture obsessed with productivity and measurable outcomes... What is it they always call this… Hang on it's very similar…oh, right”Metrics" Here is the core question because I'm kind of burning out on writing this description: why does sitting by myself in a room and thinking about people that do not have never existed make me feel more free than any of the alternatives pro offered to me by a world constantly telling me that I am free to do anything I like? This isn't a rigorous academic argument, just an attempt to think through their ideas in relation to my own experiences as a recovering “optimization” addict. ————— Get yourself some truly incredible artistically crafted dice through DiceNest, where using the promo code MANDICEALONE, you can take an absurd mindbending discount of 20% off your order. Thank you, dicenest for sponsoring the channel and for making such beautiful dice: (Referall Link): https://dicenest.com/?ref=MANALONE ———— ———— Join this channel to get access to perks: @amanisalone /join Lastly, make sure you join this channel to get access to amazing perks, including the Seal Team Waffle Alpha Members Only Discord Server, a.k.a. solo role-playing heaven on a bun! Members of the Man Alone channel who subscribe for at least $3.99 a month ("Seal Team Waffle Alpha" Level) can access the members-only Discord server. Click here to join: @amanisalone /join Link above will take you to the waiting room and a moderator will verify your Youtube membership and then give you access Intro and Exit music provided by Youtube Creator Music Studio #TabletopGaming #SoloGaming #Miniatures #SoloRPG #SoloTTRPG