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?
Sudoku.
These comments are more safe for work than I expected.
Walking and running
You might also enjoy hiking, which is pretty much those two things but mostly the first.
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Op plays briton longbows for sure
Lemmy. Lol. And a nice walk with my favourite music is good too
Playing Palia.
Ah, you mean what do we do to cope with the crushing existential pressures of modern existence?
In order from productive to not productive:
Hike, photography, walking, playing music, writing music, editing photos/videos, producing music, cooking, playing videogames, Lemmy, porn.
That about accounts for all the time I’m not sleeping, working, shitting, showering, or shaving,
Can you please change ‘working’ to ‘slaving’ so that you keep the alliteration?
Hey you just coincidentally listed all of my interests
Sir/Madam, as an expert in this area, I draw issue with your comment: several of these can be performed WHILE shitting. The determination of which specific activities are compatible is an exercise left to the reader.
Since when is producing music less productive than playing music??
… okay so first, the word produce has like 600 definitions, so start there.
Playing music takes me away from reality and my thoughts a fuck ton more than producing ever will.
It is far more productive in terms of stabilizing mental health.
What the fuck did you think I was “producing” on hikes?
To be fair I’d argue hikes are productive for the beneficial health effects. I know they’d be good for me for sure. With that said, very similar list, just add 3D to the mix lower on the list and the photo/video is my job so not really hobby nor relaxing.
Haha I excluded web development for the reason you’d exclude photo video editing. And also network adminning even though I do have a little self hosted media server setup
Hikes are good for the body and the mind 🙂
Cycling. It’s the only way I can relax.
Fuck yeah, I see you buddy.
Nothing like the clear head when you’re putting the miles down.
I found this post while playing AoE2. I enjoy playing the campaign a lot because there are so many and because of the sandbox gameplay.
So I can pretty much infinitely play them and have done so from time to time since it launched :)
Walking, watching lets plays, playing minecraft
I have two:
- Lichess vs computer, easiest setting, trying to promote as many pawns to queens as I can before checkmating.
- Civ 5, duel, Shoshone vs. Venice. No city-States, the only winning condition is time. Farming generals until Venice is reduced to a single hex.
I don’t normally watch streamers, but I suddenly want to watch you streaming lichess.
It would be kind of boring though. I rewind the moves quite a bit when I’m doing this. (Kind of weird since I make a point of never rewinding moves when actually playing, at difficulty 5.)
Hah, I do the same in AoE 2 as well, though I put the AI to standard and like to give them grief, like build towers around their base early in the game, or use an army of monks to convert every unit they send towards my base, and build up my own army of converted units; or lure them into my base by deliberately leaving a gap in my walls, except the path to my tc is lined with towers along the way - sometimes I even make a maze of walls and towers and it’s fun picking them off one by one as they make their way towards my tc.
But lately though, I’ve been doing all of that in 0 A.D., an opensource RTS like AoE. One of the cool things about 0 A.D. is the soundtrack, it’s really, really done well, especially considering it’s a free game; and I also like the customisable AI - in addition to difficulty, you can set their behavior to defensive/aggressive/balanced etc, and you can have a ceasefire period where the enemy doesn’t attack you at all for x minutes after the game starts, which gives you enough time to build up your base.
That sounds fun and creative
Doing dumb runs in EU4 while cheating. I give myself a few techs at the beginning of the game to be stronger than everyone else and focus on my objective.
For example, Hindu Hungary, Jewish Arabia, Totemist England, Tengri Russia, Protestant Ottoman Empire, destroying France as a small East Asian country and forming it again by culture converting, being Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire by starting with an African country etc.
Beat Saber, currently. Get me in that music zone and let me wave my arms around like an idiot.
Depending on the weather, go for a walk while listening to some music
