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Depressed Japanese gamer brightens his days by giving himself a log-in bonus for his real life.

Rather than run away to a virtual world, he figured out a way to take something fun about video games and use it to fight off daily drudgery.



While different armchair philosophers peg the exact amount at various points between 50 and 90 percent, its often said that a big part of life is simply showing up. But the sad flipside is that even if you show up, theres no guarantee that opportunities for happiness will present themselves. Sometimes you go to work or school, and all thats waiting for you is a routine day of mundane grinding, making you wonder why you even bothered getting out of bed.

Recently, Japanese Twitter user Kyo-kun (@1122g_) found himself in such an unhappy rut, so he decided to take a page from the world of online gaming and start giving himself a log-in bonus for his daily life.

After a quick trip to discount store Daiso, Kyo-kun came home with a calendar/organizer, with separate pouches for each day of the month. After hanging it in his home, he stuck a 500-yen (US$4.50) coin into the pouch for each day, giving him a concrete, immediate reward of spending cash for logging into real life. Then he stuck an extra one-thousand yen bill into the pockets for each Monday (when everyone could use a little extra boost) and also the last day of the month, as a special salute to his hard work over the past four-and-a-half weeks.

This display of optimism-boosting ingenuity inspired others around the Internet, who left comments including;

What a wonderful system for getting yourself through a rough patch in life.
Its easier to keep making an effort when you know theres something good coming in return.
Im going to try something like this to help me stick to the diet Im on.
Id give myself an extra bonus on Fridays instead, to power my last spurt for the work week.
So if the last day of the month is also a Monday, do you give yourself 3,000 yen?

Technically, since Kyo-kun is giving himself 500 yen a day with an additional 1,000 on Fridays or the last day of the month, if the end of the month fell on a Monday, he should give himself 2,500 yen, not 3,000. Any way you do the math, though, giving yourself a tiny pat on the back for doing your best every day, even if nothing out of the ordinary happens, seems like a great way to make sure you keep showing up, even if the game of life can sometimes fell like a kusoge.
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But he already... had the money.

I'm not opening my log in bonus to get some of the money I already grinded for in smaller chunks.
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This is actually a little bit sad
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Kelystic topic with no Marie Rose or Cool Clock Kid = disappointed.
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I would rather buy mystery boxes and open one a week.
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Hey, man, whatever floats your boat.
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Smashingpmkns posted...

This is actually a little bit sad

It's actually very sad.

Modern life was so meaningless and depressing that he turned to gaming, which still didn't alleviate his ailments. The result? Gamify life itself!

This will surely address the roots of his depression...

Japanese days are named after elements and are so much cooler than English days, which are named after stupid old gods
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But the money he puts on the calendar for one month goes back into the calendar for the next month. This is so dumb.
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