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What is your comfort activity (like comfort food)? (discuss.tchncs.de)
submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Mine is playing AOE2 in easiest (or standard if I want a bit of challenge) mode against 3 bots. I just build my economy, wall up (and laugh at the enemy soldiers attacking my walls in vain), reach imperial age and attack once my army reaches the population limit. I also send 104 in the chat so they don't surrender and I can enjoy razing their all buildings one by one. If any of them builds a castle, even more fun. A build a trebuchet and watch it raze the castle from a safe distance. If there is sea, after I am done with the land, I build 3 docks, do research and build a navy and hunt down ships around the unxplored sea. It is fun, satisfying and relaxing.

What is yours?

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

Meditation

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Gunpla. I go into a zen like state and achieve inner peace as long as I'm making dumb little robos.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

GuildWars 2, small scale stuff on the borderlands with my WvW guild.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Sometimes I pick through homebrew content other people have made and offer comments and suggestions. I used to float around on /r/UnearthedArcana before I jumped from Reddit, I'm kind of hoping something similar pops up in the federation. Either that, or on the really bad days, I play an old game that I've played a bajillion times before. I know the routes and strats, I can kind of go on autopilot while I try to decompress from the shit that happened. System Shock 2 is a favorite.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Smoking and watching YouTube.

Not super healthy, I know.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Fwiw, I’m doing that, and kbin. Kbin isn’t very comforting, you say? Maybe, but at least there’s intelligent discussion to be found.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Op plays briton longbows for sure

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Playing Palia.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Watching YouTube videos of people making things in machine shops. It switches my brain off and just lets me focus on the work happening on screen. It’s so rewarding to see the process and the finished product.

See:

  • Abom79
  • Clickspring
  • Cutting Edge Engineering Australia
  • Make it Extreme
  • bigstackD Casting
[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Sudoku.

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