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What is your comfort activity (like comfort food)? (discuss.tchncs.de)

submitted 1 year ago by hardware26@discuss.tchncs.de to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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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?

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[–] RagnarokOnline@reddthat.com 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Putting on a good old mindless comedy movie. Give me Black Sheep or Airplane or Mr. Deeds or Bridesmaids and I immediately zone out and relax.

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[–] bfg9k@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Smoking and watching YouTube.

Not super healthy, I know.

[–] Maeve@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

Fwiw, I’m doing that, and kbin. Kbin isn’t very comforting, you say? Maybe, but at least there’s intelligent discussion to be found.

[–] TawnyFroggy@hexbear.net 3 points 1 year ago

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

[–] dudewitbow@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

Op plays briton longbows for sure

[–] ProtonBadger@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

GuildWars 2, small scale stuff on the borderlands with my WvW guild.

[–] lauha@lemmy.one 3 points 1 year ago

I like wandering around skyrim and doing occasional side quest

[–] LoamImprovement@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago

Sometimes I pick through homebrew content other people have made and offer comments and suggestions. I used to float around on /r/UnearthedArcana before I jumped from Reddit, I'm kind of hoping something similar pops up in the federation. Either that, or on the really bad days, I play an old game that I've played a bajillion times before. I know the routes and strats, I can kind of go on autopilot while I try to decompress from the shit that happened. System Shock 2 is a favorite.

[–] kozel@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Sudoku.

[–] CuddlyCassowary@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Playing Palia.

[–] jamiehs@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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

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