[muzani]

Gaming and debating with people on the Internet.

I like progressively increasing my skill. I have to force myself to do passive things like watching TV. Even then, I need shows that are 'active', like Rick and Morty or Game of Thrones, where I can reverse engineer characters, think up conspiracy theories, or do something.

The problem is that my choice of relaxation is active, and thus draining. I get better at these things, but it sucks away my attention from things like programming.

I like the pain of improving skills, and games are perfect at this. Online debating too, because it takes only 10 minutes to come up with a well phrased answer.

Progress at programming is also very jerky. You end up hitting a lot of walls, being forced to debug something, or realize that the plan you spend 2 weeks on was wrong. The problem is usually very vague so there's a meta where you have to figure out what problem we're trying to solve first and whether we have resources for this solution.

[photojosh]

> I have to force myself to do passive things like watching TV. Even then, I need shows that are 'active', like Rick and Morty or Game of Thrones, where I can reverse engineer characters, think up conspiracy theories, or do something.

I watch Game of Thrones with the fan-made slippy map open on my phone. And documentaries with Google Earth open. :)