• Kowowow@lemmy.ca
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    5 months ago

    Audiobooks with video games that don’t have dialogue are what got me into books

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      5 months ago

      I have a handful of “low focus” games for podcasts, audiobooks, youtube video essays, etc.

      Vampire Survivors, or almost any “bullet heaven” type game works well. Old School Runescape also has a ton of ways to skill grind with minimal attention needed. Turn based RPGs with minimal story are great too.

      Played through a handful of Pokemon randomizers and romhacks while binging King of the Hill.

      But the king for me for a while was Elite: Dangerous. Hop in my cargo ship, use spansh road to riches to generate a trading route, and binge stuff while flying fron planet to planet in supercruise.

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        5 months ago

        OSRS player here with 20 years under my belt for RuneScape as a whole and the amount of books I’ve read throughout those years is astronomical.

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      5 months ago

      I need to try audiobooks. I generally struggle with auditory input, but that’s mostly if I’m trying to dedicate all my focus to it. Games + audiobooks might be my jam

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        5 months ago

        Binding of isaac and many rougelikes fit pretty well, a lot have vert good music but I like taking on a book more(also book recommendations would be the golgatha series for magical wild west, johannes cabal series that’s the adventures of a decent but unfriendly necromancer, john dies at the end is a cosmic horror comedy series, space team is stupid fun scifi, oh and the black company follows a fantasy mercenary group who are sine of the very best but also too threatening to not be betrayed by the employers that’s mostly told from the perspective of their medic

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          5 months ago

          Sounds like some good book recommendations. I like black comedy and scifi. John Dies at the End is one that I’ve heard of before. Thanks!

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            5 months ago

            It’s awful but I always come back to the mcdonalds part of john dies at the

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      5 months ago

      when i really really want to read something ill usually pick up both the audiobook and the ebook so i can actually fucking focus on it.