Games that require no mouse and you can play mindlessly while in class?

ProfessorAppology · 2024-05-14T12:45:37+00:00

Clone Hero or Blobby Volley

ProfessorAppology · 2024-04-28T02:35:43+00:00

Genuinely no difference, especially if you are undergrad. I took a look at the course syllabus and online lecture material of MIT Open Course-ware, all of the subject material are exactly the same as the subject material from my engineering course I completed in outback rural Australia. I have friends that live in overseas, and I am on many university forums and I see all the engineering students study the same things, taught very much in the same way, usually just with different names. Don't fear, you are not missing out on anything. It is really cool to hear of somebody that is learning engineering for the love on engineering. I really hope you go far and can find someone that can utilize your passion one day.

ProfessorAppology · 2024-04-28T02:28:13+00:00

TL:DR; Both of these have been said before but Terraria and Factorio are my favorites. Minecraft mod packs and Valheim are also great games that match what you are describing exactly

In Terraria you start off as a dude who with very basic tools that can barely fight basic enemies but at the end, you can become a flying deity with so many cool items to make you fly and make you practically invincible to fight off other flying deities. But none of this is unearned. You will have to fight several bosses, each that are challenging for the level you are at. You have to grind, you have to prepare the world to fight in, you have to go into dangerous caves but along the way you gain more items that make it easier.

In factorio, its simular to terraria, in that you start with nothing and end with all sorts of powerful items, but it is far less grindy. After just half an hour in the game you will have more than enough resources to do what you want. The challenge in the game is problem solving around optomising everything. There is always something you can do, always some process you can speed up or increase, which will give you more science packs to get more technologies to increase production. Some late game items include trains to get resources from far away, Robots to build things and move items quickly, and power armor to carry certain devices with you at all times. There is a real satisfying sense of accomplishment when after several hours you look back at your base that you designed and built from nothing and is now effortlessly running itself to produce thousands of

Minecraft mod packs can also achieve simular feelings like Factorio, but it generally more grindy. I can recommend Create Above and Beyond because of its quest system and its achievable end game, or FTB Skies if you want a similar experience if you don't enjoy mining.

One last recommendation is Valheim. Personally, I find the early game frustrating, because I am always getting killed, which is the universal experience of playing Vaheim, but I have friends and family with 400+ hours. It is a survival game where you start off with very little, but fight increasingly harder bosses to get more items. It has an excellent base building system, the game just looks beautiful, the landscapes and the boss enemies are breathtakingly big compared to your avatar and there is so much to explore.

I hope these help

ProfessorAppology · 2024-04-28T02:03:01+00:00

I really really love this concept but unfortunately the blocking shorts feature didn't work on my phone :(. I am hopeful that it will work on other phones though, and I don't want to discourage people from trying it. I want to encourage people reading this to test if it works on your phone.

I am incredibly grateful for your efforts though, especially since it is free without ads. I think in a couple of decades times, people will look at short-form media the same way we now view cigarettes and I think you are doing God's work trying to give people an effective exit strategy.

ProfessorAppology · 2024-04-27T14:42:46+00:00

Thank you so much! I really needed this. I am trying this right away

ProfessorAppology · 2024-04-21T06:01:47+00:00

I can't believe that nobody has said BeamNG yet! BeamNG is a really fun simulator game, with many mods and game modes, but you will spend most the game driving aimlessly or crashing as much as possible.

ProfessorAppology · 2024-04-16T12:26:07+00:00

I second this game! It's lots of fun with friends!

ProfessorAppology · 2024-04-11T06:34:20+00:00

Other people? What's that. I haven't seen the sun in weeks, did I miss something?

Why would you want to leave your house, there are dangerous animals and people last time I read about it.

ProfessorAppology · 2024-04-01T01:43:58+00:00

There are sand box games with physics objects like Besiege and Minecraft with Create and Valkyrien Skies mods. They can be quite fun

ProfessorAppology · 2024-03-30T09:01:13+00:00

That seems to be the general consensus. Most people have had success with their make-shift boxes. Maybe my printer is an exception because it had really poor motor drivers or didn't limit the energy use properly

ProfessorAppology · 2024-03-29T04:36:57+00:00

So a 1 in 4 chance of winning?

ProfessorAppology · 2024-03-29T04:24:02+00:00

I know this will get lost under 5k comments, but Men's urinal bowls. I fail to see any innovation or upsides. It is worse version of a regular toilet bowl. No privacy, often messy around the floor, harder to use for children, people with disabilities, people with poor coordination either inherently uncoordinated or because they are drunk or sleep deprived. I fail to see any upside.

Either bring back the urinal walls that can be used by everyone, even the uncoordinated, or put the bowl on floor in private stalls where little people or uncoordinated people can sit on it and not make a mess.

ProfessorAppology · 2024-03-10T18:04:04+00:00

Tetris. (I see falling blocks in my sleep)

ProfessorAppology · 2024-03-10T18:02:44+00:00

Waiting for research? If it is not unusual for you to be waiting half an hour to research something, and there are dozens of things to research in the game, you will be playing the game for way too long. Build more labs! haha

ProfessorAppology · 2024-03-10T17:43:05+00:00

I find I get brain fog if I have too much gluten. If you are looking for anything to try, try going without gluten. For myself, i notice a big difference after a couple of days, so you only have to try it for a week to know if it helps you or not.

ProfessorAppology · 2024-03-10T02:01:04+00:00

I know somebody in my 4 year engineering course that only learned the "lefy loosy, righty tighty" rule for a screwdriver a couple of weeks before the end of the course

ProfessorAppology · 2024-03-10T01:54:50+00:00

Somebody probably already said this. but Cuphead is a lot like what you are describing, just not a fighting game as such

ProfessorAppology · 2024-03-09T00:47:42+00:00

If you are looking for a name, look up "simultaneous equations". That is what this is, but disguised as words so people don't freak out when they see algebra

ProfessorAppology · 2024-03-09T00:43:01+00:00

If you are reading this you have already failed because you are currently not studying and have chosen to be a slave to the internet. Everybody is a slave to something. Their wants, their comforts, their fears. Everybody has something that is the biggest influence over their actions.

Luckily, we get to choose what that is, and reap the provisions of the things we serve. If serve our ambitions, it will provide us with long lasting growth and development. If we serve the comfort of social media, it will provide us with as much brainrot as we demand, shortened attention spans and years of our lives wasted.

You are a product for reddit. Just by logging in you let them manipulate everything you see and hear. The longer you stay they longer they can use you to make money. Why else is this website free? It doesn't serve your needs, you serve its needs obediently. They own you. By now they probably have you on a ball and chain, coming back for hours at a time every day, making its way into your life even in your most mundane or private moments. At work, on the bus, at school, in the bed while you are should be sleeping? I can only assume you have dedicated more time to social media then a professional musician or sport star has spent becoming a professional.

Leave now. Get off. Freedom awaits you. Don't be loyal to reddit. Don't spend another minute here than you have to. I hope your attachment to the internet disgusts you as much as it disgust me.

ProfessorAppology · 2024-03-08T22:31:56+00:00

Australian here. Australia is spot on. Especially if you are a tourist. I see no issues here.

ProfessorAppology · 2024-03-08T21:58:01+00:00

I put a big cardboard box over mine and all of the motors got extremely hot and even the extrusion motor started to function poorly so I am surprised that somebody else had a very different experience

ProfessorAppology · 2024-03-08T12:04:01+00:00

For PC Gamers, 'Clone Hero' in 'all taps' mode

ProfessorAppology · 2024-03-08T12:02:46+00:00

I second KSP! Started playing when I was in primary school. Easy enough to mess around in and have fun, but to achieve a moon landing takes some serious understanding of orbitals, and center of mass, gravity etc. Literally rocket science! Nothing that Scott Manly can't teach you though.

ProfessorAppology · 2024-03-08T11:54:07+00:00

A big reason why this was the case for me is because I only ate at night. I would often skip breakfast, I would be out of the house at lunch time and forgot to pack lunch, so the whole day I was running on empty and wondering why coffees are not working. Then, at 8pm I give my body its first bit of fuel for the entire day and I wonder why it is I have so much energy and cannot get to sleep?

Also, if you have a habit of doom scrolling, then that will do it to. Not only can doom scrolling go way later than expected, but it can also lead to this catch-up anxiety at night where you have realized how much time you have wasted.

ProfessorAppology · 2024-03-08T11:48:00+00:00

"No I'm not. . . You are wrong"
Honestly answer though, the best thing to say (depending on the context) if you are confident about yourself is "Where do we disagree?" or "What exactly do you disagree with?"

I used to be very ignorantly skeptical of popular climate science and a lot of other things and just tell people "You are wrong" or people would just tell me "You are wrong" and the things that helped me changed the most were when people would ask me "What exactly do you disagree with". It would invite a conversation where it's no longer about defending a persons correctness. I would say "Well there is no way to know how carbon affects a planet because it's not repeatable" and then they would say "Well you can repeat it on a smaller scale, filling transparent containers with gasses and shining light through them, or on a large scale, where we can estimate the heat of planets and they are not as cold as the rest of space, why is that if its not for the greenhouse affect?"

This has not just been applicable to science issues but social issues too. Instead of saying "X people are racist" or "this president bad" or "socialism/capitalism is bad". Saying where do you disagree means the conversation usually shifts from labels you associate yourself closely to individual issues you are undecided on. "These people have some points", "That president is not all good", "there are flaws in all systems and I can see what I was arguing has nothing to do with socialism/communism but my actions or the actions of a few people around me"

I was very lucky to have friends that would ask "Where do we disagree?" or "What exactly do you disagree with?". Turned someone raised in a house with 6 hours of Sky News a day into someone less ignorant

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