My strategy is different on 2nd Step

I am using method of the ancients of watching stuff weekly as they come out. Watching 1 episode a day has really elevated my enjoyment of the shows as my dopamine receptors are not oversaturated.

Books and Manga on the other hand serve a different purpose so I binge them indiscriminately.

If you keep running out, you’re probably consuming too much. You need more past time where you have fun another way. Walk around town and superglue rocks to walls or whatever floats your boat. You really have to enjoy it, and not try to force yourself. Disconnect.

Switch to gaming?

All of my interests are niche, so this SHOULD happen to me all the time. The thing is, I have about 40,000,000 of them, so I usually get inspired to work on something else when I get bored

That’s usually time to do something else.

!Television@lemm.ee

Sometimes it’s time to solve your problems. No I am kidding let’s watch another episode

I made a my own tv schedule! I watch only one episode from each show once a week on its assigned day. Not only was the process of filing it out fun but I’m constantly excited to watch things that I wouldn’t have chosen before (for whatever reason).I was bored before watching the same stuff and people say after day. This has been a huge step for me in solving the problem you described

I don’t really follow content creators. YouTube ads are more annoying than tv and half the content feels like an ad.

I’m more into prestige tv shows. I just look at critics top lists for different years. Whatever looks interesting goes on jellyfin. Generally HBO is good or at least was.

It means you aren’t waiting for shows to get renewed or see if they iron out the kinks. I don’t bother with anything that hasn’t been renewed unless it’s getting ratings over 7.5 or critical acclaim, preferably both.

If I run out of new content, I go to old reliable a, like the west wing or ab fab or six feet under. I’m not a big fan of reality tv but the traitors, especially the UK one without celebrities scratched an itchy and I’ve binged them all. I think it will drop off in quality as people learn how the game is played successfully. Too quiet or too loud and you’re out.

There’s just so much content available these days I don’t know how you can get stuck on step four. Like people are saying, maybe you need to look at doing other things.

When if find miself in the situation when i’m out of that entertaining shit I was doing, I see it as a chance to switch my attention to work/study/something useful.

And about step 4. I usually don’t stop after finding something. I continue to download diverce things until I sick of the seeking. So I always have a few games/shows waiting until I have free time and mood to get to them.

I usually rewatch old stuff, and one of the YouTube channels I follow generates so much different content that I can’t keep up.

Also my schedule sadly doesn’t allow for step 2 and 3.

Have a Kodi add-on setup integrated with trakt and custom widgets. So whenever I load up Kodi I get a feed of

• New episodes for shows I already watch as soon as they air
• New trending shows (in descending order of current viewers)
• Newest shows on steeamers like Netflix, Amazon, Apple, BBC (which depend on the fine folk whom add them to trakt lists)
• Recommended shows from trakt

And then a separate similar set of widgets for movies. I find the trakt recommendations include a lot of old movies too. So if I can’t find anything I want from the feeds of new stuff, I just pull up the trailer for one of the old movies I’m recommended and take a punt on it if I’m interested.

For YouTube I just use the recommendation algorithms (delivered via SmartTube)

I don’t. I don’t find video media very engaging, and typically avoid it. If there’s nothing interesting to watch, I do something else.

Well my YouTube algorithm is pretty good. I’m always saving stuff to watch later or in Hoarder. For movies and Tv I just download a lot for Jellyfin. If I truly dk what to watch I can always shuffle a good show like futurama, modern family, or mash