Ask HN: What video games do you play during the day? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: What video games do you play during the day?

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Post by davidkuennen » Mon, May 30, 2022, 1:54 PM UTC

League of Legends / Team fight Tactics.

Love that you can do a short game for 20 min and then quit or do more. Perfect to clear your head.

Re: Ask HN: What video games do you play during the day?

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Post by nfbyte » Mon, May 30, 2022, 1:54 PM UTC

Mindustry. It's like Factorio + tower defense. There is a basic campaign and sandbox mode with multiplayer as well. It has in-game visual programming (logic) with which you can do crazy things like play Chess: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hoeS3S9S9Dk, and it also has a JavaScript API for mods.

Re: Ask HN: What video games do you play during the day?

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Post by wanda » Mon, May 30, 2022, 1:56 PM UTC

I tend to avoid video games until I'm on proper vacation time. For diversion between programming boring stuff I tend to do some graphic design stuff or occasionally I'll go on StackOverflow and answer some Perl/JavaScript questions.

During vacation time I'll typically play one of the Fire Emblems or Halo (3, Reach or Infinite).

Last vacation I quite enjoyed Dirt Rally, nothing quite like nailing a stage at speed in Lancia 037. I don't care for driving games usually but these games are fun even just on a gamepad.

Re: Ask HN: What video games do you play during the day?

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Post by jdalgetty » Mon, May 30, 2022, 1:56 PM UTC

Elden Ring!

Re: Ask HN: What video games do you play during the day?

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Post by jmclnx » Mon, May 30, 2022, 1:56 PM UTC

probably not what you are looking for, but here goes. Usually one of these: xpat2, xgammon, rogue or nethack

Re: Ask HN: What video games do you play during the day?

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Post by dmos62 » Mon, May 30, 2022, 1:56 PM UTC

cruano wrote: post #3

I had a friend that used to take mid-day breaks to play CS:GO. The weird part is that it seemed to work wonders, I guess there's something about getting shot at that really gets your energy levels going

I play some Insurgency: Sandstorm from time to time during the day. It's a descendant of CS:GO in many ways. I usually do it when I need to facilitate a mode change in my mind.

Re: Ask HN: What video games do you play during the day?

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Post by danamit » Mon, May 30, 2022, 1:57 PM UTC

Master Duel,

Re: Ask HN: What video games do you play during the day?

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Post by voidfunc » Mon, May 30, 2022, 1:57 PM UTC

Minecraft Creative

More often these days I just go lie down for 20 minutes since im right at home.

Re: Ask HN: What video games do you play during the day?

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Post by kgwxd » Mon, May 30, 2022, 1:57 PM UTC

Rocket League. 5 minute matches.

Re: Ask HN: What video games do you play during the day?

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Post by imdsm » Mon, May 30, 2022, 1:58 PM UTC

cruano wrote: post #3

I had a friend that used to take mid-day breaks to play CS:GO. The weird part is that it seemed to work wonders, I guess there's something about getting shot at that really gets your energy levels going

It's essentially the pomodoro break. Concentration and focus followed by a short relief. If that's a coffee, a chat, or a quick game, if it works it works!