Wouldn't calling someone during the hanging of clothes also be multi tasking?
But having a youtube video running isn't? So you already concluded that it adds nothing and is barely considered a 'thing'? I still have videos and streams on my second monitor but half the time I just close it cause I realize I'm not paying attention. Streams are more on-the-nose about it; videos I can tolerate cause I can pause and rewind them. I've started watching Sopranos before bed and the slow pacing and deliberate dialogue focus almost feels otherworldly. A time when media wasn't summarizing what has happened non-stop cause they assume people aren't watching. It's becoming harder to detach from our phones and non-stop media consumption cause it has become the norm. I read the other day that audio balancing in movies has trended towards lower dialogue audio because the focus is meant to be elsewhere. Movies are polished theater, and now you want us to focus on the drapes instead?
With Lent coming up, doing the technology fast is a great idea. Along with the archery and hiking, it'd be good to take up reading, cleaning, writing, etc. to fill out those moments between work, sleep, eat, and your outdoor activities.
I automatically clean and shit, even after work when I'm tired, cause I've sat by my PC and done nothing for an hour and already read 30-40 pages. I do productive shit out of habit, and the fact I eat dinner and brush my teeth at 4-5pm means I got another 4-5 hours to do things, and gaming just hasn't covered those interests, but even if it did I'd have plenty of time to focus on it.
Being bored is good, but it does get overwhelming, leading to dumb decisions. Rusty Cage's month of sobriety vlog more or less just jumped straight into "Dawg, being sober is fucking boring, I need to actively find shit to do". For me it used to be bike riding for 25-30 miles, but it's such a time investment with chances of puncture making it take even longer. I've wanted to get into running instead but in that case I'd rather just bike.
I'd love nothing more than to genuinely get into games again, but I basically need to force myself at this point. Or to force myself to do 50 mins of street fighter a day or something. Put in the actual effort and work to get into something again. It's what you need to do with any other thing, gaming isn't any different. I feel like I'm in the fall of my life despite being young, simply cause I've gotten so used to not having passion for anything in particular. I "just" clean, shop and do maintenance. It's better but boring.
Its the simple fact that this site an Youtube replaces my socializing. I dont have any friends and I dont even know how to make them considering how the average person my age is a brainwashed phone zombie. But with Spring coming, my goal is to sign up for stuff like hiking, archery, and all that.
A friend of mine used to do this "ironic" thing of just going "anyone got skype?" in WoW dungeons and he made a fair few friends that way. Once you stoop to being cringe and put effort into socializing, it usually works out. Granted, most games these days are just brainrot central; everyone on Discord and not even paying attention to the chat. In that case, niche forums or Discords might work. I've found the best Discords being like.. one channel from some streamer's Discord that has nothing to do with the rest of the discord, if even the streamer.