[watwut]

> Having no friends usually is associated with sadness but some people actually associate it with determination and ambition as “friends” are distractions.

Just a few years ago (5-10), it was popular in tech circles to claim basically "I am hard worker because I did solitary hobby instead of socializing in school". Quite a lot of tech guys in my generations were effectively pushing that as ideology - socializing is waste of time for lazy people. You know, the true programmer is coding during christmas eve kind of meme (which was a thing in the past).

Now days, the same circles talk about loneliness (and sometimes blame lack of traditional values for it).

[taneq]

If there's one thing I've learned from playing single player games, then trying out online PVP in those same games, it's that teaming with (and competing against) other people is essential in improving your own performance past a certain level.

[varjag]

AoC is still very much a thing.

[watwut]

What do you mean by AoC? I assume you do not mean Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and I cant think of anything else.

[rpsw]

OP meant Advent of Code I assume, in reference to programming on Christmas Eve.

[waveBidder]

AoC is great as a social activity, tbh. only time I participate is with friends as a goofy coding exercise

[urthor]

AoC shouldn't take all of Christmas (it does however require quite extraordinary algorithmic prowess).

[varjag]

Well it does have an assignment on Christmas Eve naturally. The only time I did AoC that was the day I skipped since honestly it's super low priority compared to cooking/arranging with the family.