And the music!

Great game. I’ve played it through several times and now am struggling to finish it on nightmare. It’s just so hard when you get down to like 2 health and have to creep around until you can find enough health to be bold again

Yeah I call this a kind of creative restlessness. Sometimes a Thing comes out of it, sometimes I just read too much, open and close files, paw over various notebooks, and then go to bed.

Yeah I kind of didn’t like that word as I was writing it. Similar to how “tutoring” literally means to “straighten” or basically to inculcate to normativity.

Meanwhile, “insight” or “inspiration” is something that you do yourself […]

Good edit, this is a better word choice.

I would replace intelligent with well educated, at least

Just for the thun of it

I have a small amount of swap that I can use for extra burst maybe once or twice a week. I almost always use it up on work.

Yeah the wild swings in exchange value instantly preclude its use as a currency.

pls hold all pedos and rich parasites responsible regardless of political affiliation or how nice there are tytyty xoxoxo

But who wins

May I suggest silent tandem reading

Yeah using your “entire brain” is definitely the key. If you can still have a little thread going in the back of your head, then you need to up the intensity.

Exercising while listening to a video game podcast is a fav of mine.

Obviously these aren’t solutions or cures, but it’s a cope that can give you a break.

I usually associate that more with anxiety, which I don’t have, because I can sometimes short circuit the bad thought spirals by switching to the latest hyperfocus. Like playing through doom levels in my mind’s eye.

I could do this with my eyes closed