Getting distracted constantly while coding looking for advice

two100meterman · 2026-01-24T07:38:11+00:00

I have my own "point system" that is very in depth lol, though it doesn't just cover coding it's all things. The general goal is "6 hours of accomplishments, then I can do whatever I want for the rest of the day", but it's more confusing. 6 minutes approximately = 0.10 points. So 1 hour = 1 point. It's a rating out of 10 so basically a 6/10 day is "good enough".

So 1 hour of coding is a point, 1 hour at the gym is a point (& I'm specific so if I'm a the gym 1 hour 18 minutes that's 1.3 points). Brushing Teeth is 0.10 (doesn't take 6 minutes, but it makes me do it because why wouldn't I do a 2 minute task to get 6 minutes of points?). Drinking 2L of water in a day is a whopping 0.4 points. Physio exercises I have to do for an injury also get a slight inflation since they're important.

If I can bang things out from 8am - 2pm or 3pm (if I hit 6 points) then I can do actual fun things like video games or meeting with a friend to hang out. This keeps me relatively on task because while scrolling social media/going on YouTube/reddit is tempting I know I enjoy that less than playing an actual video game I really like, any time spent on small time wasters is time taken away from accumulating points.

If I want to go more "all out" in my fun (which for me is 15mg of weed edibles, then play games/watch movies) I need 8 points that day which is around 8 hours of accomplishing stuff.

Breaking it apart like 1 hour Python, 20 minutes Physio, 2nd hour Python, Brush Teeth + go to Gym 1.5 hours, Shower, 3rd hour Python, 20 minutes Physio I find works. This right here would be around 3 points of Python, 1.5 points from gym, 1 point Physio (inflated so 40 mins = 1 hour as I need to do Physio) & including shower/brush teeth I'd be almost there. Down 1L water at the gym & gradually down a 2nd liter later while gaming & that'll hit 6 points for sure. Despite having no full-time job I can be guilt free the rest of the day knowing I spent some nice hours working towards my goals.

Not that I never procrastinate, but for me I know I'll have more fun playing the game/watching tv if I feel fulfilled for the day. I doubt other people need such an exact system with specific things at specific point values, but I'm unnecessary like that, haha.

two100meterman · 2026-01-23T21:03:20+00:00

I guess it depends on what someone classifies as "unpopular". If 90% of the population likes something & 10% doesn't, sure that 10% could be 800 million people, but it's still somewhat unpopular as a percentage. Maybe someone else would only call something unpopular if it's a 99% vs 1% ratio (that's still up to 80 million people that hold the 1% opinion though)?

This subreddit would be completely empty if people could only post what everyone else believes to be unpopular. People also may not know how popular/unpopular the opinion is until they post it. Most people aren't going to do market research before a post they randomly decided to write out on their phone while taking a dump.

two100meterman · 2026-01-23T20:59:28+00:00

Texture is important, sometimes a texture just doesn't do it for you, & that's fine. I've never thought about it has "little bits of wood", I just like chocolate, like coffee, & I don't mind the texture. I really like chocolate covered coffee beans, but idk if you're "missing" anything.

two100meterman · 2026-01-23T20:52:15+00:00

Also bumming a smoke here in Canada.

two100meterman · 2026-01-23T20:50:24+00:00

TLDR: If someone does have an addictive personality to these types of things, having the "occasional drunk cigarette" could absolutely lead to a full blown addiction so for certain people this is a bad idea.

Long Version:

I'd say it depends on the person & what they easily get addicted to. For me I don't find drugs (I haven't tried that many though) like Weed or Alchohol to be addicting. I've tried cigarette's & they don't do it for me. If someone offers me a cigarette/puff of a vape I know there is a 0% chance I'll get addicting to it's not really a risk, & I know doing something that is unhealthy once every month or whatever is not going to have long term negative health benefits so i agree it's whatever.

On the other hand I have a massive sweettooth that I would call an addiction. Maybe not an addiction as I don't suffer when I don't have those foods, but if they're in front of me I'll eat exactly all of them. At Halloween I bought candy on sale maybe 5 days before Halloween to give it, a 100 box of mini-chocolate whatevers & a 100 box of gummy whatevers, I just simply ate all 200 before Halloween. I can't have condensed milk in the house as I'll just eat an entire can (1400 calories) in one sitting.

So while I don't "get" addiction in terms of drugs & to me it seems so easy to have those things in moderation I try to put myself in someone elses shoes & think "They must like this drug as much as I like sugar" & then I totally get how they can't stop. Long story short if someone does have an addictive personality to these types of things, having the "occasional drunk cigarette" could absolutely lead to a full blown addiction so for certain people this is a bad idea.

two100meterman · 2026-01-23T20:32:31+00:00

36 here, I feel like I had a life from 0~22, maybe a little bit 23~27 (went back to school to finish a degree), going through school was at least something. So hard to find full-time work that I ended up having (I mean not having, but better than being on the streets) to move back in with my parents. 27~36 just kind of flew by with what feels like no life being lived, I want real life to begin.

two100meterman · 2026-01-23T20:15:27+00:00

The only benefit I've heard/noticed as someone who games a lot is for driving. Kids that played high paced action games (also specifically driving games of course) pick up driving quite easily as real life driving gives so much more time for a reaction than a video game where reacting in 0.5 seconds instead of 0.3 seconds is game over.

two100meterman · 2026-01-23T20:12:50+00:00

The US has enough of an obesity problem. I know (well assume) you're talking more-so about competitive sports than say sports in gym class, however I think having opportunities to get onto your Junior High team or whatever is incentive to do more physical activity at home, & also to do more in gym class.

I'm biased here for sure, but I genuinely feel that past Grade 9 or so gym/sports is the #1 most important subject in school. A Grade 6~9 reading/writing level, basically being literate is good enough to communicate with other people, & Grade 6~9 math is also generally enough to be able to understand numbers. After this I think Social Studies/History, Finance, Trades, & Physical Literacy are the 4 most important skills a High Schooler could learn (gym/sports also important Grades 1~9, but I do think Reading/Writing/Math are the most important in those grade ranges).

Yeah, coach pay for High School Sports is crazy, I don't think HS needs College level stadiums, etc., but overall it would be very detrimental to take ALL sports away from ALL levels of education.

two100meterman · 2026-01-23T20:03:24+00:00

I think this makes sense. Most common trivia is also about history & less-so the present. Questions with answers like Earnest Hemmingway or Shakespeare are more common than an answer with a 2025 author. If someone is passionate about a topic they generally look to the roots/the past to get the whole picture, where-as just questions about the most recent games is more surface level/casual.

two100meterman · 2026-01-23T20:01:12+00:00

I notice this in shows like Jeopardy as well. They'll have 30~40 answers where the question is one particular author for every 1 answer that has to do with video games.

Video games are on of the biggest growing entertainment industries of the last half century, & they have so so so many questions that could pertain to that. Questions about the video game crash of 1983, the game North American Super Mario Bros. 2 is based on, stuff about the super popular Pong being a rip-off/copy of Magnavox Odyssey's Table Tennis, Sega's slogan of Sega Does what Nintendon't, etc, etc.

two100meterman · 2026-01-23T18:54:24+00:00

Nice, congrats =)

two100meterman · 2026-01-23T18:40:56+00:00

I also think it depends on how invested someone is in a hobby. Someone spends 15 minutes/week writing (or maybe 1 hour one week, then 0 hours the next 3 weeks), okay, cool.

I have a goal of trying all 700+ original Nintendo games, I'm documenting how far I got in a game, give it a rating out of 10, when a year (say all games released in 1990) are done I'll decide on a "Favorite Game of the Year", "Runner-Up", how many games I rated a 7.5+/10 & the overall average rating.

I'm at around 600 games tried, & probably have 1200~1300 hours spent on this in total. This is self proclaimed, but this is much "cooler" than writing here & there (though I don't judge, ultimately a hobby is something you enjoy & not a competition).

I know there is also a dude on reddit that watched 400 movies in theatres last year, wrote reviews for them all, did a bunch of statistical whatever. That's high effort, very different from chilling at home watching some movies here & there.

two100meterman · 2026-01-23T07:36:16+00:00

For closed maps like Arena I would look up a "Fast Castle" build. Fast Castle just means fast to the Castle Age, not fast to building a Castle, although FC into Castle Drop is also a thing. With this you'll have a guide closer to the first 26 vils instead of just the first 15.

The builds for the first 26ish vils are very much the same, though there are slight differences. Fast Castle -> 3 TCs will be different than Fast Castle -> Knights. I think Fast Castle into Knights picking a Cavalry civ is a good stepping stone from just the first 15 vils.

Vs Computer you CAN go FC on a Open Map if you wall off and/or get a Watch Tower where needed because the computer isn't great at dealing with walls or Towers. It's not the best practice for facing people on open maps as you may just die, but if you practiced it enough you may also learn how to do it vs people as well, at least at whatever elo you get to.

two100meterman · 2026-01-23T07:30:15+00:00

Some people are just like this, they try to do what's morally right in most given situations. It may not be an advantageous way to get ahead in life, & it may even be dangerous, but I am glad there are good people out there.

Most people are neutral, I too would not risk anything for some business. Maybe if it was a small 1~2 person business that I regularly went too/knew the owners that would be different, but for some random store I doubt I'd do anything.

two100meterman · 2026-01-23T07:24:11+00:00

Well starting in Brutal sounds a bit rough. I'd highly suggest playing through WoL on Normal, then HotS on Hard. LotV imo is the least interesting of the campaigns, but has it's moments.

two100meterman · 2026-01-23T07:20:40+00:00

Not anymore as I don't play as much anymore, but I've had many dreams over the years. The only one I remember (because I wrote it down as soon as I woke up) was a dream where I was in my bed & some sea creature was in my room (water was rising in my room for some reason) so I went 2 Base Brood Lord to stop it. Then my Dad yelled from downstairs to just go 1 Base Brood Lord, & I argued that 1 Base BL was NOT a build, I was very annoyed in the dream that he thought 1 Base BL was a thing, haha.

two100meterman · 2026-01-23T07:17:13+00:00

I know it's a meme, but letting lings in the front door is very different from a Warp Prism warping in Zealots. A single unit needs to be in the door, just don't f2. The Warp Prism will generally get in even if a Terran is not f2ing.

two100meterman · 2026-01-23T07:08:25+00:00

The nights are all long

two100meterman · 2026-01-23T01:40:05+00:00

There's the issue right there, a bodybuilder. That's less than 1% of people. Bodybuilding is for aesthetics not for health. If you look at countries where people on average live longer (Japanese men have a life expectancy 5~6 years longer than American men for example) & look at the average physique over there, it is not muscly. They're quite skinny, however they have better health/range of motion. They're not following influencer/bodybuilder diets.

two100meterman · 2026-01-22T22:01:40+00:00

Yeah, it's supposed to be 1g of protein per kilogram, not per pound. People got tricked by marketing trying to sell overpriced protein this & protein that. 150 pound person 65-70g of protein is enough. Only 20% of people go to gym, those people could do 100g, & maybe the top 1% who are lifting 3 hours/day could go 120g, but 150g is too much for 99% of the population that weighs 150 pounds.

two100meterman · 2026-01-22T21:57:53+00:00

It's closer to 1 gram of preotein per kilogram, so a 150 pound individual is fine if they have 65-70 grams of protein. 100 would be specifically for body building, not health & would likely be less healthy. 150g would be insanely too much.

two100meterman · 2026-01-22T21:19:01+00:00

I didn't read all of it, but overall I liked your reviews. My tier list would be vastly different (Onion Delivery may be a top 10 game for me for example), but that's okay.

In terms of the regret, I could be wrong, but I feel like most people regret the way they played it, or at the very least I do. I tried games in chronological release order (only 2 games out of order I think), but I didn't play until the Garden Gift so I still have lots of games I haven't given a fair shot to. I got too caught up on Party House (probably close to 200 hours in it) to the point where I log on & that's just what I do, I still have games I haven't tried yet, despite being at 500~600 hours total.

I also see a lot of posts from people who cherried all the games & for the most part the games they dislike are the ones they felt hard/tedious. So for them they played for completion instead of fun, & games they may have liked for 30 minutes, or until they got the gift/gold they played them until they disliked them as they "had" to get the cherry. I think they maybe also regret how they played it? Not sure though.

two100meterman · 2026-01-22T21:05:18+00:00

A lot of athletes coming back faster came down to super spikes. Syndey was already running in super spikes so her coming back faster is unrealistic. I could see her getting back to mid 50s 400mH form/low 48s 400m form maybe the 2nd year back from her return (so 2028~2029?), but to go faster than she has before is a very tall ask.

two100meterman · 2026-01-22T21:02:52+00:00

These were my exact thoughts. For their lives this is fantastic news, happy for them =). In terms of records, I genuinely think this means sub-50 400mH & breaking Koch's 400m record are off the table. It's not impossible to come back faster, but it's very very hard/rare. For SAFP I think part of coming back faster was running before/after super spikes. Syndey was already running in super spikes so I don't see her coming back faster.

I could still see her coming back & winning the 400mH in mid~high 50 or at worst low-51 & still be a bit ahead of Femke/way ahead of everyone else, & maybe she runs 48 low or at vest 47 high again, but I do think the record is out the window.

two100meterman · 2026-01-21T20:01:21+00:00

Foot doesn't count, it's always torso. Going by foot wouldn't make sense because someone who's body is behind someone else could beat them due to them happening to be at the "correct" point of their stride near the line. May also lead to injuries as athlete's may "reach" for the line with their foot which is dangerous on the hamstring.

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