Oh, it’s worse than that, the consciousness is in on it.

It’s a zachtronics-like, but in a side-scroller? I like coding games but am not sure the combination works just like that. Personally, I’d expect the coding to be relevant to the world, not an unrelated theoretical exercise. Project Euler randomly tacked onto Mario would be a nope for me, but using coding as a meaningful part of the game, so it does visible, tangible, useful or just cool things? Sign me the fuck up.

If you haven’t tried playing Zachtronics games, I’d give them a try. They’re a major subniche of “coding games” and could be good for some inspiration. They’re all basically coding either in spirit (SpaceChem, Magnum Opus) or directly (TIS-100, Shenzhen IO, Exapunks…), usually with some twist. Their languages tend to be “fake assembly”, simplified and stylized.

Personally I’ve rarely had as much fun coding as in my early ComputerCraft days (computers/robots in Minecraft) because it… did stuff. I was already a coder, but was not used to seeing it translated into “physical” actions. Like the difference of learning/teaching Python with text-based UIs and exercises, vs a “robot” that drives around in the room and does things.

I’ve had some ideas along these lines myself, borrowing a lot of Zachlike inspiration, but I was going to go topdown or just omit the “overworld” entirely.

This is a new take to me, anyway. What do you mean?

And it really does seem therapeutical. I scoffed a bit the first time I read about dopamine detoxes and stuff, but I’ve also, since then, caught myself being very nearly literally afraid of getting bored. That is insane.

Don’t worry about it. You will get distracted, and it’s fine. In mindfulness the clue is to just “notice” whatever the intrusive thought (or whatever) is, then resume whatever you were doing. I found it helpful to do the “breath focus” thing and counting them - lost count all the time because that isn’t really the point, it’s just something to do while essentially waiting for your brain to do something. Noticing is the point, both whatever you’re doing and what your brain does when it veers off.

Yes, all the time. It’s a crucial part of the whole thing, as far as I know. (Not an expert, barely do it, have been meaning to get back into some kind of habit)

Before this, I thought of meditation as the whole “still mind” thing, but if it’s how anyone works, it sure isn’t me. Mindfulness is more about realizing when a new thought “arises”, looking at it sort of dispassionately, and gently refocusing yourself. There’s no real “failure state”, you will get distracted and that is fine, just get back into it.

I really struggle getting into games on touch controls. Even old pokemon games with like 5 significant buttons is hell, let alone anything that requires timing or consistency. Any tips? (Short of actually hooking up a controller, I’d just use my PC then)

Not trying to be a contrarian (it just happens!) but boredom will not kill you. In fact, I challenge you to sit and be bored for a good few minutes. It’s good for you. I’m terrible at it myself, but that’s what being a dopamine crack addict will do, I guess.

If you’re out of ideas for things to do, try mindfulness meditation (Waking Up is an app with a bunch of free lessons to get you started) - very little woowoo, just pay cursory attention to something, then when your mind inevitably wanders off, just “notice” and be, well, mindful. It’s like an antidote for boredom, in a weird way, and studies have shown that for whatever reason, it’s good for you.

Myself, I read books for any “random short term downtime”.

Software vulnerabilities that aren’t (and never will be) patched.

I haven’t played Factorio in a while, but something about FFFs is just… nice. Wube seems like an interesting place, I like the way they do things.

Judging by the replies: yes and no, respectively. No fun allowed, there’s offense to be taken!

That does sound pretty terrible. While sugar can quicken you up in the very specific case that you’re literally acutely hypoglycemic, that’s also about the only reason to do this.

Napping would leave me sleepier and disoriented but ymmv

Certainly if you’re overdoing the naps. If I nap for 20-30 minutes I’m refreshed. 40 and I’m fucked-in-half, worse off, and might not have bothered.

Red meat, and processed meat, and processed red meat, etc. certainly aren’t great for you - cancer risk and such. Limiting their consumption makes sense for (long-term) medical reasons, often for economical, ethical and environmental reasons as well. In terms of acute food safety, most “developed” countries will do a good enough job to make sure you don’t catch a pathogen from it. Can’t assume everyone plays fair, but you also can’t really assume they don’t.

If you feel ill or have measurable changes to your health just from eating red meat, though… you might want to see a doctor.

(Net) reducer/increaser make sense, yes. I haven’t seen “carbon positive” a lot: in reality, we assume most of our activity frees CO2 (or whatever else), so it’s almost redundant to point out. When it doesn’t, or actually causes a net reduction in whatever pollutant, that’s a Big Deal and we needed a term for it. There’s not much practical room for confusion: same as how a “positive” medical finding might be really bad news, it’s all context.

In what sense, in what context?

Also, as long as it links there, it serves the completely ass-backwards purpose of actually providing Reddit with extra traffic. Probably not a lot though, I guesss.

I don’t think you can have general without intubation. To protect against aspiration or something, if not actually to breathe for you.

I had general anesthesia, some kind of pretty strong opioid. “10… 9… 8…”, then the room felt like it was spinning very briefly before everything went black. Only thing I remember about coming out of it was a sore throat due to intubation.

Unfortunately, there’s realistically not much to be gained by arguing, it’s not like they’ll change their mind. Also, for all their bitching about the allegedly hypersensitive left, they sure don’t love hearing different opinions themselves.