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by colechristensen 246 days ago
A touch of alcohol turns the overthinking volume down which often leads to more productivity and better code. A not so uncommon ADHD experience. In university of course also sometimes I would do my programming drunk and the result would regularly be that it worked but the solutions would be very odd.

Standard ADHD meds often lead to playing Factorio for 17 hours in a row and forgetting to eat.

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>Standard ADHD meds often lead playing Factorio for 17 hours in a row and forgetting to eat.

Ain't that the truth.

I've found that sessions of Factorio lasting 17 hours (or more!) are entirely possible even when a person is completely unfettered by any manner of inebriate or medication.

(It's almost like the birds can hear the loading screen, and that hearing this prepares them for their pre-dawn onslaught of particularly-profound singing.)

The entirety of the dot com bubble recovery was powered by adderall, weed and booze.