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Arguing with my partner about when to set our goals for the year still seems so fresh in my memory, like it was just a few weeks ago. But just a few weeks ago, we were sizing up the final act of 2022. Since the pandemic started, time has seemed to crawl and sprint at the same time. Or is it just my perception of it?
Anyway, some updates and thoughts on this fine cold night.
Two, actually. Craft the World (the side-scrolling love-child of Dwarf Fortress and Dungeon Master) and Children of Morta (akin to what I wish Diablo 3 had been, except for the loping labouring narration). They have been a big help in circuit-breaking that weird drive to keep working.
Sometimes when there was frustrating or boring work to do, I'd have one of those Storm8 management games ticking along in the background — usually Bakery Story. Yeah, it's a silly and pointless game, but somehow context switching to it would reduce my frustration and get me through the task at hand.
Is that dopamine at work like self-medicating your way through an unpleasant situation? Or does the distraction curb a natural tendency to overthink and perhaps overcomplicate to the point of frustration and boredom? Am I a No-Fun Nancy who needs to lighten up in order to get things done?
How annoying that there's no absolutely correct answer to a question like that. Everyone might have a theory, but something like this would be hard to quantify and qualify in situ. Just have to wonder and make the best of the existential crisis that comes with not knowing.
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My usage is now down to 347.1GB. It feels good. Gives me confidence that I can shed the mindset accompanying the propensity to depend on Big Tech's big "free" quotas. Not that I'm getting this storage for free, mind you. This is more about not being such a digital hoarder because it's so wasteful.
The plan now is to get myself an actual reward for hitting this goal early (maybe a slice of cake from a local bakery), take a little break, then set a new target. Maybe something less ambitious because I plan to convert some old Word Docs to plaintext files.
Part of me is pessimistic while simultaneously hopeful that this is the beginning of the end. That an ensuing deterioration will accelerate a mass migration to better platforms, making something good hit critical mass, triggering a groundswell of action to fix behavioural, social, political, commercial, and environmental things that are broken. Right now, the strongest feeling is curiosity. The second strongest feeling is hoping I'm not a cat.
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