#things that might happen in 2024

[britesparc]

Weekend Top Ten #619

Top Ten Things That Might Happen in 2024

January is always the time I do kind of “year-end” style lists about the year just gone and the year that we’re all getting used to. After my mini review of 2023 last week, now I’m turning my gaze to the horizon and thinking about all the exciting-seeming things that I’m going to end up being disappointed by in 2024.

I think these lists used to be a little bit easier as there were huge “things” hanging over the horizon – an Avengers, a Halo, a bunch of comics – but whether it’s just fatigue, time, or my interests narrowing a little bit, I tend to be happier to wait and see. This is also because a lot of the things I really end up loving are ones that kind of come out of nowhere – Everything Everywhere All at Once, Only Murders in the Building, Driver’s Licence – and I couldn’t have predicted how much I’d fall for them beforehand. The big franchises tend to rumble on and I love them to bits – well, the MCU at least – but I’m happy just taking them as they come.

Despite all that, there are quite a lot of things that I’m excited about this year. I’ve tried not to just say “everything that’s on Game Pass” or whatever, and look in the nooks and crannies for things that really seem like they’re going to be incredibly cool. I remain, of course, a basic bitch; there’s Marvel stuff on here, Xbox games, a bunch of movies… same stuff as always. But it looks cool!

Anyway, that’s enough for now. Here we go, gazing into my Palantir of futureness to see what there is to see. Catch you on the flipside!

I’m Seeing Hamilton!: I’m a very big fan of the musical Hamilton, which I’ve only ever see on Disney+, and listened extensively to its soundtrack. So I’m obviously incredibly excited by the fact that next month I’m going to see the show here in Manchester. It’s going to be weird hearing the songs sung by people other than the famous Broadway cast, but I can’t wait to actually see it live and for real.

Great Films Set in Deserts: the two biggest films of the year to me are Dune: Part Two and Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, follow-ups to two of my favourite films from their respective years. Dune I adored as a huge-screen epic adaptation on the scale of The Lord of the Rings – and in its own way just as earnest and successful an adaptation. The second half of the book is when things really kick off so I’m expecting some audacious IMAX action and Josh Brolin playing a baliset. And then Furiosa, the gonzo prequel to Fury Road, starring Anya Taylor-Joy as a young Charlize Theron, and an almost unrecognisable Chris Hemsworth. Fury Road is a landmark, stunning achievement in action cinema, so whatever George Miller wants to do in that world is of tremendous interest. And, yes, both these awesome films are set primarily in the desert. Who’d have thunk?

Doctor Who Continues to Return: pretty much my favourite thing about 2023 was the return to form of Doctor Who, one of my favourite shows which I felt had gone off the boil a wee bit. Ncuti Gatwa has already impressed in the Christmas special episode, and now we get to see a full season, with nice, enjoyable arcs and mysteries and weirdness. Russell T. Davies’ social conscience continues to ensure Who remains a terrifically progressive, forward-thinking show, which is also very nice; and we might even get some sexy spin-offs too.

Deadpool 3, aka The MCU’s Year Off: the MCU took a bit of a kicking last year; partly at the box office but especially from critics OD’ing on schadenfreude. This year is almost a bit of a reset, as the various strikes of ’23 have pushed back almost everything that was due out in the next twelve months. As such we have one film to look forward to, but what a doozy: Deadpool’s MCU debut, the first R-rated movie in the canon, with Hugh Jackman back as Wolverine to boot. And it appears it might be making fun of the entire Fox buyout and the end of their X-Men universe. True, there will be some shows – Echo, Agatha, maybe Daredevil – but it does feel like a chance for the studio to exhale, take stock, and kick everything down again in 2025. And Deadpool 3 could be utterly fantastic.

The Rohirrim Ride Once More: I’ve already mentioned the Lord of the Rings movies in this list, and here they are again. Basically, I think they’re the best movie trilogy of all time, the best literary adaptation of all time, and in general are just flippin’ fantastic. So I’m beyond excited for The War of the Rohirrim, an animated prequel focusing on my beloved pseudo-Celtic horse lords. Brian Cox is playing Helm Hammerhand, the visuals are based on Peter Jackson’s trilogy, and Miranda Otto narrates the whole thing as Eowyn. The Ride of the Rohirrim scene in The Return of the King is a stunning piece of cinema I rewatch time and again; I hope this can be just one-tenth as good.

Spider-Man Gets Hitched (Again): I don’t often talk about comics on here anymore as I’m not going into comic shops that regularly, so I just feel a bit out of the industry, so to speak. But this year we do get a new comic about Spider-Man that touches on one of my favourite aspects of the character: his married life. Ultimate Spider-Man – which launched this week but which I have yet to read – is a whole new universe and new take on the character; but as I do really like it when he’s a bit older, married to MJ, and has a kid, it’s definitely right up my street.

Great Games Incoming: last year I think I was most excited about Starfield, even if maybe it didn’t quite live up to expectations (I still really like it though!). This year I don’t think there’s one “big” game that’s frothing me up; but all the same, there’s a lot on it’s way. Next week, for instance, we’re going to see more of Hellblade 2, Avowed, and Indiana Jones just for starters; and personally I can’t wait for Ara: History Untold, Xbox’s Civ-a-like. And that’s before all the weird and quirky games that just look damn cool: Plucky Squire, for instance, and hopefully Lightyear Frontier, the Stardew­-meets-Transformers game that was delayed from ’23. Despite having more than enough to play already, I think 2024 is going to drip-feed a steady stream of excellent games throughout the year.

…And a Whole New Console (Probably): the games are exciting enough, but it looks almost certain that we’re going to get a sexy new console too. The Switch 2 (Super Switch? Switch U? Switcheroo?) is probably coming out in 2024; I doubt I’ll be getting one right away, but it’s always incredibly exciting to finally see what Nintendo have up their sleeves. I imagine a refined, sexier, more umph-y Switch; how it lands price-wise and with issues regarding backwards compatibility really determines how crazy it’s going to make me. And on the subject of hardware, we may be getting a cool new Xbox controller, with haptic triggers and all sorts; that’s Christmas 2024 sorted, then.

A Good Year for Star Wars: I’ve gone a bit lukewarm on Star Wars recently; although it’s been in the news this week with the announcement of The Mandalorian and Grogu movie and it’s really made me want to catch up with the series I missed. Anyway, 2024 is a big year for the franchise; presumably we’re going to get at least one film finally in production, and on TV we should have (I believe) the second season of Andor and Skeleton Crew, the intriguing Jude-Law-is-a-Jedi-mentor-to-a-bunch-of-kids thingie. If that wasn’t enough, Ubisoft’s Star Wars: Outlaws looks like a bit of wish fulfilment in game form, and we’re getting an amazing-looking remaster of one of the best games in a galaxy far, far away, Dark Forces. More did you spake?

Transformers, at Last: I finally started reading Transformers by Daniel Warren Johnson, the new iteration of the franchise published by Skybound and Image. As it’s only three issues old, I’m really intrigued to see how its story plays out this year; its interesting tweaks on the old G1 Sunbow/Marvel storyline have enough contemporary wrinkles and the artwork is excellent. Yes, obviously, it’s nowhere near as good as the highs of IDW; but, really, we’re looking back nearly ten years to those fascinating stories. This is an intriguing start and I wanna see where it goes.

#top ten #movies #games #books #2024 #2024 preview #things that might happen in 2024 #dune #hamilton #star wars #transformers

[azaracyy]

a lesson on good karma digimon survive week 2024 day 4: supporting characters

#digimon #gomamon #digimon survive #survive week #survive week 2024 #rambling ahead. you don't have to read the tags beyond bc there's nothing that important tbh... you can just look at the art... #exhausted from being out and doing housework yesterday. then got a last-minute job with very urgent deadline today #finished everything but yeah basically i did anything but art so #irl do be like that aint it #anyway it's been a long time since i played survive and my memory isn't that good #but i always remember the part where we had to protect the gomamon #and later they showed us a path via the dam allowing the team to continue exploring #it reminded me of just how important it is to be nice and do good things whenever and wherever possible #and be mindful with the not-so-good things you do and say #be it good or bad. karma is real even if you don't know when it will get back at you #and you know in visual novel settings. whatever choice you make really determines what happens later on #yeah believe it or not i end up thinking stuff like that by helping a bunch of adorable seal mons... #mmm i'm officially behind now so i might as well take my time while also rest a bit haha ;; #this week has been fun with survive week tho fr. even though i came in unprepared (when will i change) #gotta keep surviving #png

[dreamings-free]

“Guy [Massey] is currently producing and mixing albums for Sophie Jamieson (Bella Union) and Mezanmi plus mixing albums for Will Young, Louis Tomlinson (Live) and Lady Blackbird.”

— Sound On Sound, March 2024

👀

#live album #!!! #louis #FITF live album #might be happening after all! #rumours #nice find @omglarryrabbit !! #always digging up things ☺️ #sound on sound #mar 2024 #guy massey #he has a connection to bmg and felix howard #they follow each other and I’m pretty sure howard signed / A&R’ed lady blackbird after epic (once again like with louis) dropped the ball #he also worked with kylie - another bmg artist #lt collaborators

[autistic-katara]

acting like byler hasn’t been used to advertise the show multiple times/has been talked abt by the cast in a way to draw in queer audiences, aka the literal definition of queerbait if they don’t do it

#not saying they’ll definitely make byler endgame but if they don’t it would infact be queerbaiting #like have yous not seen all those posts from the cast (specifically noah) being like “lol byler canon 2024” #the cast aren’t just some fans everything they say abt the show is to promote it #so again if it doesn’t happen (which it might not) it would very much be queerbaiting #byler #anti mileven #<- incase anyone has that blocked #stranger things #ryan shut the fuck up

[chirpsythismorning]

When ya'll told me I was crazy for saying s5 is gonna take up to a year to film and so I stayed quiet, but now it's low-key being confirmed:

#byler #stranger things #i tried to tell you guys #even if they could finish filming it all in 7 months #they still aren't able to because of scheduling conflicts with the cast #if this was s1 and they had mostly unknown actors #they could get it done quicker #the problem is they're all a/b-listers now #meaning they are high in demand #meaning that they all have to negotiate and plan their scheduling so that they are able to film everything #this means that some actors could be unavailable to film a few months out of the total months allowed for filming #meaning that adding on a few extra months is going to accommodate a lot of those conflicts #and that's not even including unforeseen delays #more often than not they will take longer than they estimate bc it just happens #so if they said it would be early 2024 that filming would be complete #you could hope it's Jan 1st #but it's more likely to be April #and then even in that scenario you might as well shoot for May/June #the good news is that time goes by a lot fucking faster than we realize #and by the time filming is done early/mid 2024 #they'll have a good 8+ months to do post production #i do think that it's likely March 21st 2025 is a big possibility after this new atlanta extra posting #that would mean filming ending in june/july 2024 #and then i'd imagine they would be able to have it done by like January if they really wanted to #but why do that when they can get another 2 months of wiggle room and less sleepless nights with a March release #that release date would also be them acknowledging Will's birthday which is likely to be explored right away at the start of s5 #march 21st would allow them to re-contextualize stuff from 4x01 that wasn't brought to light... #who knows for certain though! #we could see a vol 1 in late 2024 if they want to roll it out asap #but i just don't think they want to

[girl-bateman]

Exchange semester in the Netherlands???? Hello ???? Fall of 2024 ???? I got accepted ???

#yippie ✨️✨️✨️✨️ #this end of 2023 is making me so hopeful for 2024 and thats crazy bc i dont think ive ever been happy for the new year before #i know these little things like my novell and studying in Netherlands might seem small #but to me its proof that i can do anything i set my mind to :) ! and i dont mean that unironically either ! #like genuinely- as long as i try i have a chance of success !!!!! #i used to just think abt or do things without taking that first step #u know. just write novells or books witouth sending them anywhere despite the fact that i dream of being published #or look at uni websites in foreign countries without applying to them #BUT YOU SEE WHAT CAN HAPPEN WHEN I ACTUALLY TRY !!! 🥲💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗 #life is beautiful :) and good things happen to those who stick around to find out #yay <33333 #personal

[aroaessidhe]

2024 reads / storygraph

The Final Curse of Ophelia Cray

fun YA adventure

follows a girl who’s seen as cursed because of her recently hanged notorious pirate queen mother, and runs away to the navy where nobody will recognise her

and her half-sister who’s desperate to find her before she’s arrested for using a fake name, to bring her home to their dying father & save the family business

both get on the bad side of some pirates and have to brave storms to find each other

aroace MC, sister relationships

arc from netgalley, out april 9

#The Final Curse of Ophelia Cray #aroaessidhe 2024 reads #This is ok! I enjoyed it on the surface level but think it could have had a bit more depth and structure #I do always like to see an aroace MC who mentions it casually throughout the story and the central sister relationship #The writing is a little young for me… I think it has this silly/satirical element of the plot and caricature-villains but the prose wasn’t #quite funny enough to make it work....so parts just felt a bit random and undeveloped to me? #I genuinely love a lot of MG and younger YA but this is on the side of writing style #that felt too noticably young for me to enjoy fully (for me - obviously it's for teens! so that's okay!) #It’s quite slow to start (it doesn’t get into it until half way?) and the two storylines felt a bit disconnected. #All the different things happening felt all over the place & I felt the ending was a bit unsatisfying #Betsy’s love interest seemed like a nice interesting boy but it was such instalove I felt like there was no development between them lol #I think it has some fun parts and some good characters! I would still recommend to teens looking for queer piratey stories #(tho as a note - THEY aren't really ever pirates. maybe briefly.) (I think maybe ofmd comps might do it a disservice if you're not clear #it's just 'piratey and also there's queer people) #there's some good side lesbians (def side tho)

[ferromagnetiic]

【 KID'S BIRTHDAY 2024. 】

          It is his birthday.

     The party hasn't even started and he is already drinking.

     He's ready to get wrecked and remember absolutely none of it tomorrow.

If you catch him when he's pissed enough, he might even be a little bit less horrible to you. Or maybe he'll be even more aggressive. Depends on how the night goes.

#【 ⚙ ˊˎ | BLOOD AND IRON-WILLED | open. 】 #【 ⚙ ˊˎ | RECKLESS TONGUE | ic. 】 #tw alcohol #tw drinking #// hello i am here!!! #// i just got home and i am getting ready to party. i have a few things to do before the night starts but then i'm good! #// this is the single drunkest day of the year for him. #// i will warn you that heavy scottish accents are inevitable. probably also badly translated gaelic. #// he will remember absolutely none of this tomorrow so say anything you want to him. #// also heads up that i will be spreading this event out over the course of the next few days #// because i don't think i can reply to everything in one night i'm sorry;;;; #// it might end up being a week long event depending on what happens. #// anyway hello and happy birthday to all the other kids on my dash! #// i am tagging all these posts as kid's birthday 2024 just in case any of the subject matter is uncomfortable for you #// and you want to blacklist #// okay love you all see you in a bit! #kid's birthday 2024

[novelconcepts]

i don't make resolutions, but if i did

it would be to finish this fic

(and to be kind to myself for however long it takes to actually do so)

#i'm finishing it if it kills me #i know i've been writing this makeout scene for 3 weeks but baby that can't last forever #if we want to get deep and dark and serious for a second i do think a lot of my struggles to write lately have to do with engagement #and how incredibly low engagement has been on the last few things i've written #which like. is what it is. i'm not entitled to anybody's time or comments or kudos. #but when you write stuff you're proud of and it feels like it's barely getting read it's hard to keep momentum. #this isn't intended as a woe is me or whatever it's just kind of like. there. hovering. #happens enough times you start to wonder if it's you. am i just writing for the wrong fandom/ship? #(too bad if so. they're in my bones i'm writing for them and no one can stop me.) #but yeah. if you ever wonder if authors do care or notice about hits. comments. kudos. buddy i am here to tell you #not only do we care and FLOURISH we also notice when those things drop off and readers vanish #and it is a giant bummer. and sometimes makes us wildly paranoid about why that might have happened. #so if you liked a fic today--not even one of mine. just. anybody's. share it. comment on it. #kudos at the VERY least (cuz frankly kudos is there to be an 'i got to the end and this was nice' feature. #so when you get 500 hits and only like 30 kudos? it feels like 470 of those people hated your work) #anyway. that got out of hand. lil' too raw lil' too honest. happens when you let yourself ramble at 11:30 instead of sleeping #to sum: let your local fic writer know if they've made you happy #and as we go into 2024 i am swearing to myself that this fic (and probably several others) are getting finished #come hell. high water. or dishearteningly low engagement numbers. #(and then maybe we...actually work on something original. cuz why not. new year same old me but i'll do my best.)

[airenyah]

i see everyone fill up the gmmtv 2024 bingo card and it's like. i don't really have any predictions and i also don't have enough things that i want in order to fill up the entire thing.

i really only have three four wishes for gmmtv 2024:

firstmix 12 ep main couple series

earth/fourth return as an uncle-nephew duo

joongdunk series, but better written and more serious/deeper/grittier/darker/sexier this time. bonus points for vampires

midnight museum s2 but make it canonically gay and also bring back nanon as The One (and KEEP him as The One!!!!)

#i was gonna say ''three wishes'' like in your classic fairytale but then i remembered midnight museum #and i just HAD to include it on my list lbr #also i'm not too big of a fan of horny/sexy series bc i'm a little too much on the sex-repulsed side of the ace spectrum for that #but!! judging by JD's dum dum performance and also how excited they were for hidden agenda ep8 #i feel like they would have a whooole lot of fun with a sexy ofts-type of series #so i want it for them #for their sake <3 #gmmtv 2024 #gmmtv 2024 wish list #airenyah plappert #adrm #actually dunk was saying only yesterday that he'd like try and act in a fantasy/magic related series #and then he gave vampires as an example sooooo 👀 #also this happened RIGHT AFTER he was asked to give some spoilers upon which he told the audience to follow gmmtv 2024 #(though i think he was asked by the presenter what kind of series he'd like to do) #(she asked him a question before he talked about the fantasy series thing) #(but i couldn't really understand the question) #anyway i'm very 👀 #i suspect dunk def has a series planned for 2024. though i have no idea if it'll be with joong or something else #might even be a het thing who knows

[frasermints]

i have such a tolerate/hate relationship with trans tape. like, why do you have to bite me when i use you?? i literally cannot function without you and here you are, ripping me to shreds???

#thisnis an open invitation for someone to explain What I'm Doing Wrong™ #like i'm literally doing everything right. leaving 1.5'' tails at the front and end #rounding my corners. pushing into my armpits. using baby oil and WAITING. a LONG FUCKING TIME. #i genuinely think i just Might Be Allergic To Adhesive bc the same thing happens to me when i use bandaids or get blood drawn or have + #- holter monitors put on and get paper or silk tape applied for any length of time #so if anyone knows ANY alternative to trans tape or kinesiology tape lmk because i literally cannot bind anymore and my fsa doesn't + #- roll over until january first 2024 #trans tape #transtape #binding #binding alternative #binding alternatives #my post #ftm #f2m #trans man #transmasculine #trans guy #female to male #transmasc

[phoenixriaartemis]

"Open the door"

The Just Dancers but it´s Fionna and Cake ´s Vampires World

"Close the door"

#just dance 2024 #adventure time #having that thought since ep 7 of Fionna and Cake and the whole thing that happens in Just Dance 2024 edition #again might delete this later

[bigcats-birds-and-books]

Books of 2024: THE GIRL IN RED by Christina Henry.

We took a trip to Red River Gorge this weekend, and I both started and finished this book while we were there! It was a very speedy read.

While I did really enjoy the genre-savvy protag, I was expecting more Wolf Presence in a Little Red Riding Hood retelling, either literally or metaphorically (I mean, come on, look at that cover??). There were a couple references to (metaphorical) wolves and one coyote-man comparison early on (also metaphorical), but it felt like the Wolf Motif mostly was dropped, which was an Interesting Choice™, given that the plot entire was Red walking through an apocalypse and the forest to her grandmother's house. (Yes, she really goes by Red, which is not her name--she just really likes her red outerwear.)

This was also much more ongoing-apocalypse than post-apocalypse, and said apocalypse is referred to in-book as "the Cough" (publication date: June 2019?? wild). Family Units are endangered and fall sick on page, be warned! In addition to the Cough, there's also quite a bit of gore (via both brutal axe murders (self defense) and chest bursting a la Alien (which is the in-book comparison lol--see "genre-savvy protag")(admittedly this chest bursting subplot did feel very What The Hell Is This Fresh Bullshit, and not exactly cohesive with the rest of the story...not sure why that's in there lmao)).

Again: Quick read! Not super complicated or twisty, but it was a nice simple read after making it through THE BITCH QUEEN CHRONICLES, and I'm glad I read it for my own LRRH retelling reasons.

#books of 2024 #book photography #my photography #the girl in red #christina henry #lrrh #forreal though i am SO GLAD i didn't try to start this one while my whole family actively had COVID lmaoooo #(we just got over it finally) #and it was perhaps not the BEST choice to take to an isolated cabin in the woods but i WAS right that the forest walks vibes were on point #SERIOUSLY WHERE WERE THE WOLVES #AT LEAST A WOLF!! #i really thought one character we met toward the end might be Wolfish but. he was just a genuinely nice guy #that was lowkey a disappointment ngl #also the Cough/crawler thing felt. out of place and unresolved. #like she (the author) could've picked ONE of those threads they weren't both necessary?? #and then the chest bursting/crawler thing wasn't. resolved. at all?? #like the protag even said in narration she was just gonna let it go not her business??? also disappointing. #(it also happened with like five pages left in the whole book so. not sure what else to expect) #the whole book was literally trying to get to grandma's but it wasn't a beat for beat fairy tale retelling #(mine is beat for beat. or it will be. when i get to revising.) #(but we both have fucked up post apocalyptic viral/bacterial end of world scenarios leading to our Reds so i thought maybe a good comp.) #(not actually a good comp besides vibes though.) #OH AND SASHA (mine) AND RED (henry's) ARE BOTH NARRATIVELY AWARE #like red knows genre stuff (horror movies and scifi and survivalist things) #but i want sasha to be aware that she's In The Fairy Tale but weirdly and meta about it. so there's SOME similarity but not quite the same. #i did not like how her whole family dies horrible deaths #(spoilers i suppose) #(but you know by the first chapter that she's alone so. is it a spoiler.) #anyway i have a surprising amount of thoughts about this actually so i guess it did something to my brain?? which is nice?? i guess? #easy prose and very predictable otherwise lol

[phantomoftheorpheum]

.

#people really relate thinness to health so much that i keep getting compliments about how 'great' i look lately #like yeah thanks just rapidly losing large amounts of weight and none of my doctors can figure out why and also my hair is falling out #just girly things obvs #but yeah i'm skinny rn and my ribs and collarbones are sticking out and apparently that trumps everything else #in december i might have weighed a lot more but i felt great #so far all of 2024 i have been incredibly sick and all my lab work comes back weird but not definitive #anyway #tw: weight loss #tw: ed #tw: disordered eating #<< i mean it's not but this could be triggering for people so tagging it #tw: chronic illness #I think the extreme weight loss and the hair falling out are related like both of these things have only been happening since my #chronic illness flare but they can't find any reason for the flare and it is not stopping so honestly idk what to do #also i feel like i have a uti all the time but the results come back negative #venting will delete this later #my chronic illness was in remission for basically exactly one year and now it's worse than ever #and i'm so tired #td #personal

[lukaherehelp]

okey I have to get back to working on the fox & the prince, I've being putting it off for like a week almost because I also need to get into the more nitty gritty stuff of explaining concept art and why I choose this project and present the draft to my project tutor in time to be able to adjust anything before going head first to work on it because the draft also counts for the final grade!

I'm totally not panicking or loosing my mind about this :D One of my friends (and former classmate) is being my emotional support, but she has recently found a job so obviously she can't be with me 24h and I don't want her to be either… I almost forgot about how nerve wracking the preparation of a project is, this is why I like to just make drawings and maybe sell them as prints, my anxiety and low self esteem are not made to go through these calamities not even at an academic level.

#the fox & the prince #I guess also kind of a rant? #I guess I'm really nervous because we are already 2 weeks into 2024 #and the final draft has to be presented on the first week of march #it also has to do with the fact that I don't take any classes anymore #not even the one where I have to submit the draft #so I'm terrified of going there with all my hopes up and then my teacher being like #“nah you have to make your old project yes or yes” #WHICH I DON'T WANT TO BECAUSE I'M BURN OUT #I want to got there with a first draft and be “please listen to me and let me change my project to this” #which can be another whole thing #because the tutor I have choose me because my last project was going to be a picture book #and now I'm changing to concept art which is not her field of expertise so I might need to change tutor #AND I ALSO DON'T WANT THAT TO HAPPEN #please somebody save me :DD

[oediex]

The reason House episodes are fun to watch is because they solve the riddle, right? There's a problem and a number of side streets are explored but eventually they hit the jackpot and at the end there is a treatment.

It's for the same reason that gaming is so fun. There's a puzzle that you have to figure out, even if it's just figuring out the right way to shoot the baddies who invariably deserve to be killed, until you make it to the next level.

It's dopamine hits. You're rewarded to stick it out until the end and you know that it's coming, so you do stick it out. Arguably watching a tv episode doesn't require you to do much, but depending on the difficulty setting you've introduced - and I happen to like the highest one - gaming does.

Now the question is - are we supposed to find ways in life to get the dopamine hit? Is that how you stick with something? Is that how you get disciplined? How to get things done? Or is it about finding the same fulfilment and reward even when the neurotransmitter is lacking? Is my brain supposed to work in other ways too?

#gaming #tv show #house md #now I've only just started watching #so obviously there might be quite a lot that'll still be happening in 8 seasons of house that don't follow the formula #but so far it's a 100% kind of thing #and it's FUN #writing #my writing #a story every day #11 march #2024 #listen they can't all be hits #but somewhere in the future if I'm reading through old entries I'll be like #“oh 11 march 2024 is when I started watching house huh” #I actually started yesterday or the day befoe that though so joke's on me