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Cake day: March 4th, 2024

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  • Adding to Fallout New Vegas, which others have mentioned, Skyrim. I got into modding but then sold my Xbox and haven’t yet gotten into the fuller glory of modding it on PC. And, anyhow, I don’t really think of it as a game to finish, just a game to play.

    Also haven’t completed BG3 despite liking it. I suffer in games what I suffer in life: the desire to experience it all and not close any options. Which is to say, I struggle with the reality of consequences and so avoid choices and commitments













  • Slowing down

    Establish whether you’re more a treadmill + space, treadmill + distraction, or trail runner (I can run twice as much on trails than pavement, and on pavement double what I’d do on a treadmill, because I just get bored with the latter two. I benefit from the challenge of variety of landscape and terrain).

    Question whether “you” don’t like running or it’s your system understandably resisting exertion. This is the will power aspect. Talk to the resistance, be friendly to it, cajole it, but clear that you’ll be finishing the run.

    I benefit from toggling my awareness around. e.g. from my core to my feet, to my breath and my gaze. Keeping my mind busy with that helps distract that resistance.

    Give it at least 20 minutes for the groove to kick in. Running really only starts then. Many people keep themselves always in the less fun part

    Switch to HIIT running routines. Less time, generally more benefits. So miserable but brief that you don’t have time to process it!