What is your comfort activity (like comfort food)?

Mine is playing AOE2 in easiest (or standard if I want a bit of challenge) mode against 3 bots. I just build my economy, wall up (and laugh at the enemy soldiers attacking my walls in vain), reach imperial age and attack once my army reaches the population limit. I also send 104 in the chat so they don’t surrender and I can enjoy razing their all buildings one by one. If any of them builds a castle, even more fun. A build a trebuchet and watch it raze the castle from a safe distance. If there is sea, after I am done with the land, I build 3 docks, do research and build a navy and hunt down ships around the unxplored sea. It is fun, satisfying and relaxing.

What is yours?

jamiehs,

Watching YouTube videos of people making things in machine shops. It switches my brain off and just lets me focus on the work happening on screen. It’s so rewarding to see the process and the finished product.

See:

  • Abom79
  • Clickspring
  • Cutting Edge Engineering Australia
  • Make it Extreme
  • bigstackD Casting
Adalast,

Factorio. Hands down. I have a few other games that I self-soothe with, mostly colony builders, idle games, or automation games, but Factorio is my go-to when I get into a bad headspace. To the point that my “end of world” plan includes immediately scraping the entire mod database to a portable hard drive, along with Rimworld’s entire collection. If I have those + my Steam Deck, I feel like I would be able to manage in a full social collapse and Mad Max-esque world. I know how to build a variety of generators and the proliferation of solar panels has made post-collapse planning a lot easier.

I am also regularly doing mirror backups of the whole of Wikipedia. I am thinking of adding Wikihow to that automated task. Wikipedia is only like 20GB for the aggregate knowledge of most of humanity, so well worth keeping for research after the internet dies.

Case,

Could you go into detail, even just privately, that seems like a solid use for some otherwise idle storage space.

Then again, the only part of being a scout (boy) that stuck with me involved fire or survival methods, and to always be prepared is a good maxim.

Adalast,

Assuming you are talking about Wikipedia here. It is pretty straightforward at the most basic level. So much so in fact that Wikipedia has a page dedicated to it.

en.m.wikipedia.org/…/Wikipedia:Database_download

I use Python on a scheduled job on my Windows PC to update it every so often, but you could setup a cron job in any job scheduling software for whatever OS you are using to do it. There are even ways to do it on your phone. I am only doing text currently, but I will likely so images and videos for certain knowledge domains in the future. Articles in fields of Math and Engineering rely heavily on them for illustrating (duh) the concepts.

If you are talking about the emergency download of all of the mods for Factorio and Rimworld, that I still need to research some. I was planning on just using the check all and download inside Factorio’s in-built mod manager. Rimworld I will probably have to see if an api exists for the Steam Workshop and build off that.

Adalast,

This one seems promising at first blush for downloading from steam workshop in bulk: github.com/shadoxxhd/steamworkshopdownloader

TawnyFroggy,
@TawnyFroggy@hexbear.net avatar

Gunpla. I go into a zen like state and achieve inner peace as long as I’m making dumb little robos.

Astroturfed,

Getting near blackout drunk and then hating myself for doing so for a couple days with a hangover.

redballooon,

Meditation

dQw4w9WgXcQ,

A nap.

kozel,

Sudoku.

jaanus20,

Whenever I feel like I need a breather, I ride my bike. Just ride, not hard or fast, just spinning the cranks. Feels amazing.

Pulptastic,

Same. Moving my body, experiencing the world, it’s good.

jamiehs,

Agreed, this can be so zen.

TheAnonymouseJoker,
@TheAnonymouseJoker@lemmy.ml avatar

Sitting in silence.

boogetyboo,
@boogetyboo@aussie.zone avatar

I call it ‘havin’ a stare’. I just sit and either look into the distance or middle ground and do nothing. We don’t get to do a lot of nothing as we get older, so when you get those moments it’s nice to indulge in them. I’m not meditating, or being mindful, or any random words you want to use. Just havin’ a stare.

My dog does this also, but his gaze is fixed on me and from the top of the stairs or round corners. It’s very unnerving and not even remotely relaxing for me, but maybe he enjoys it.

TheAnonymouseJoker,
@TheAnonymouseJoker@lemmy.ml avatar

For me it is a form of meditation. I either stare a blank space, or the hustling city noise with a blurred vision, or close my eyes.

CyanFen,

You may not be consciously meditating but what you’re describing is meditation

boogetyboo,
@boogetyboo@aussie.zone avatar

I prefer the lack of association with that. The moment I think I’m doing a thing, the less interested I am in it.

Case,

Call it whatever you want man, whats important is that it helps you.

dan,
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I like driving around in open world games like Forza Horizon and Watch Dogs. Not even doing anything, just exploring the streets.

Beanbags,

Recently it’s listening to audiobooks. Makes commuting or doing chores great.

thelsim,
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Watching old Mystery Science Theater 3000 episodes. They never showed on tv where I’m from, so I got in to them about 10 years ago.
There’s something comforting about watching an old movie with dated pop culture jokes being made in the background. I don’t really focus on either one and just enjoy the coziness.

verity_kindle,

May the Rowsdower be with you. That is supreme coziness. Minnesota jokes I don’t understand? No problem. No need to look up anything, I’m just happy to be with the boys.

lauha,

I like wandering around skyrim and doing occasional side quest

HipsterTenZero,
@HipsterTenZero@dormi.zone avatar

Making TTRPG maps. I just put on some music, throw down a background and a grid and start doodling. Thinking about details to add in here or what kinds of encounters could go there is pretty meditative.

cwagner,

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    Gargantu8,

    LOVE this lol go you!

    lauha,

    I’m now vey knowledgeable with civ v. What do those do and what is nee

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