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Beer kills my creativity. I'm about to turn 30 so I need to cut back but now I'm in limbo at my job. So I get the "why not?" drink and from there it cascades until I'm 12 in and can't see straight. Feels bad, man.
World of Warcraft.
Playing video games is a loser thing to do. Just stop it already. It's irritating to see so many grown men hunched over a joy-stick. No one ever changed the world playing a game.
Some people take it too far, but that's true of pretty much every recreational activity.
Distractions. The internet[1] being the major one, occasionally video games or books. Somewhat unpleasantly I seem wired to seek new distractions whenever I don't have one currently occupying my mind. I've been thinking of forcing myself to spend half an hour each day without stimulus, just thinking and writing on a paper notepad to get around this. [1] I find posting on the internet much more distracting than surfin…
going to school.
So having to deal with mathematicians'/scientists'/engineers' egos, hearing the light snickering every time I ask anything less than a brilliant question, is extremely disheartening. At times I want to turn around and explain stern-facedly to please contribute or keep silent, this is the closest thing I have to a religion. But I lack the ability to deploy such a rebuke that would not detract overall from the learning environment, so I take the jibes. I swear, college isn't that different from high school. (it's been a while since high school, so maybe that's an exaggeration. but the social interaction has a real and discouraging potential for immaturity.)
Also, the strict time schedule around classes screws up my natural creative rhythm, and I'm still working on the concept of a school that addresses my kind of temporal sensibilities.
But yeah, I hear you.
The two biggest obstacles to me getting more done are my job and my ongoing efforts to get well. They both take up a lot of my time and frequently leave me too tired, both mentally and physically, to spend the kind of time I would like to spend on other things. If I am 'mindlessly' surfing the web or something, it is because I am not together enough to do something more productive. Still, looking back, little by little, some things gradually make forward progress anyway, in spite of my constant lament that "I never get anything done!!"
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Playing video games is a loser thing to do. Just stop it already. It's irritating to see so many grown men hunched over a joy-stick. No one ever changed the world playing a game.
Nobody ever changed the world getting over 13k karma on HN, either. Recreation is an important part of being human, and choosing to spend some of your recreation time playing games does not make you a loser. Some people take it too far, but that's true of pretty much every recreational activity.
How could I have accomplished those things shredding sprites?