Devoid of Anything Useful

It appears everything I have done so far has followed a certain pattern.

This is only an example. Actual curves may vary



Now, first the introductory trigger + phase. This is when you learn about it/whatever. You stary trying and may be a little noob, or maybe still can manage. Whatever. Try it once in a while for "practice".

Then comes the secondary trigger. Usually marked by "mastering" or others doing it too. Then the frequency of activity would escalate to a high peak.

This peak would then be there for a certain amount of time. The kill trigger would then bring this down to zero. The time of decline could span from a week to a day.

This period of non-activity would be followed by the restart trigger. Quite the determining factor. Like the life (or actually death) of a star, 3 things could happen: Rebirth, Replay or Dao.

Dao is easy to explain. You dao the trigger since you decide to give up already.

Rebirth also easy to explain. You play it like a newbie. The graph restarts.

Replay is slightly different (thus illustrated in the diagram). Firstly, a period of turbulence. Then a period of stability. Then again, this could result in any of the above states. Therefore, it will be too complicated.

Let me just give a few examples. DoTA (for me), N and LF2 followed this. LF2 was started, somehow, by me. I dunno why. I had one too many connections. I think it was some guy on the N forums who had Julian as his avatar, and another with Firzen as his avatar. Whatever, they played and played, then Mdm Math came in to stop. Then a few pockets of activity, then it eventually declined to nil. DoTA I still play sometimes, but you can't really call that playing. N i still touch occasionally.

Things that have already stabilised are my Ubuntu, Juggling, laming and Jappiness.

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