• @[email protected]
    52•4 days 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.

    • @[email protected]English
      6•4 days 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.

      • @[email protected]English
        5•4 days 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.

  • @[email protected]
    37•4 days 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
      12•4 days ago

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

    • @[email protected]English
      4•4 days ago

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

  • @[email protected]
    37•4 days 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.

  • Psaldorn
    29•4 days ago

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

    Nothing a short nap can’t fix.