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Tough Decisions (lemmy.world)
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[-] vithigar@lemmy.ca 52 points 4 months ago

I'm the primary developer for a third party tool for Elite Dangerous and this is basically my entire thought process when I want to work on it.

I could work on Observatory...

Or I could play some Elite...

Or I could just stare at my screen ineffectually for several hours.

Staring at the screen wins frighteningly often.

[-] ulterno@programming.dev 7 points 4 months ago

I came back to playing a few weeks ago and absolutely stopped working on the 3rd party tool for X4 that I was making.

Now, to get back to making programs, I am going to completely stop playing for a while. Because when I start dong something, I feel like doing another thing and then another and it goes on and the day is over.

I also tend to be stuck thinking sometimes, whether to make the program I want, to put on my CV or to complete my resume website and spend a few minutes of staring at the screen, until I just go make some food.

[-] Varyag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 4 months ago

I hate that feeling of bouncing between things, or of just staring at my screen so much. So much. But when it happens, I am rarely able to snap out of it in the moment. It usually takes a few days and a mood change to fix it.

[-] Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works 39 points 4 months ago

Feels a little too close to home, except maybe the 3 hour nap part, more like dozed off but never reached REM for 45 mins.

[-] pixeltree@lemmy.blahaj.zone 39 points 4 months ago

Step 1: be depressed

Step 2: Wake up in the morning, have the feeling of doing anything being unappealing

Step 3: Nap until bedtime

Step 4: go to bed

[-] nifty@lemmy.world 12 points 4 months ago

Depression and social media use is also a fatal combination, a lot of people online really shouldn’t be for their own sake.

[-] pixeltree@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 4 months ago

I shouldn't be left alive for my own sake

[-] Zwiebel@feddit.org 5 points 4 months ago

The napping tends to be escapism to make the bad feelings go away, speaking from experience

[-] Psaldorn@lemmy.world 31 points 4 months ago

Laser guided munition in comic form. I have taken 100% of the blast.

Nothing a short nap can't fix.

[-] pewpew@feddit.it 14 points 4 months ago

This is exactly me when I have some free time

[-] robocall@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago

Why not a 6 hour nap?

[-] Maddier1993@programming.dev 1 points 4 months ago

Yeah, that way they also get a 3 hour nap

[-] mm_maybe@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 months ago

This is definitely me isolating with COVID over the past weekend except music instead of games

this post was submitted on 29 Dec 2024
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