Hello Agora. On this lovely 21 December day, I would like to talk about vampires. I am not talking about the mythological creatures, but some of the systems that plagues the modern world.
The term "systemic" vampire is inspired by a video made by Luke Smith where he described video games as "time vampires". I took the liberty to expand this concept.
A "vampire" described is something that takes something away with you, often in excess. A vampire can have many traits (i.e a vampire can siphon both time and money). Some examples are as follow:
Time Vampires: Most video games can be considered as such. This especially true for MMORPGs. If you want some advice, I would reccomend to stand as far as possible from RuneScape as I can. This game is a very big time vampire.
Storage Vampires: Those types of vampires lives on your hard drive and will often play mind tricks on you to buy some external hard drives. Those are often created when buying modern video games or taking too many photos.
Money Vampires: Those vamps can take a lot of forms: mobiles games debt, addiction etc.
Mind Vampires: Those type of vampires are very prevalent on social media. They drain your mental energy and makes you depressed.
Hope Vampire: Those types of vampire feeds on your hope and happiness. Most people believe that they are manifested when watching or reading news.
Soul Vampires: Mostly web and UI designer who suck the soul out of most things they touches. An historical example of this can be seen with the evolution of Windows.
I have made this thread so that we can collectively identify systemic vampires and ideally takes steps to avoid entering in contact with them. I theorize that by starting to put a "vampire" label on things we don't like, it will become easier to sacrifice them on the altar of personal improvement.
Do not hesitate to list a new type of vampires or any activities that exhibit ones.
The term "systemic" vampire is inspired by a video made by Luke Smith where he described video games as "time vampires". I took the liberty to expand this concept.
A "vampire" described is something that takes something away with you, often in excess. A vampire can have many traits (i.e a vampire can siphon both time and money). Some examples are as follow:
Time Vampires: Most video games can be considered as such. This especially true for MMORPGs. If you want some advice, I would reccomend to stand as far as possible from RuneScape as I can. This game is a very big time vampire.
Storage Vampires: Those types of vampires lives on your hard drive and will often play mind tricks on you to buy some external hard drives. Those are often created when buying modern video games or taking too many photos.
Money Vampires: Those vamps can take a lot of forms: mobiles games debt, addiction etc.
Mind Vampires: Those type of vampires are very prevalent on social media. They drain your mental energy and makes you depressed.
Hope Vampire: Those types of vampire feeds on your hope and happiness. Most people believe that they are manifested when watching or reading news.
Soul Vampires: Mostly web and UI designer who suck the soul out of most things they touches. An historical example of this can be seen with the evolution of Windows.
I have made this thread so that we can collectively identify systemic vampires and ideally takes steps to avoid entering in contact with them. I theorize that by starting to put a "vampire" label on things we don't like, it will become easier to sacrifice them on the altar of personal improvement.
Do not hesitate to list a new type of vampires or any activities that exhibit ones.