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[โ€“] pete_the_cat 20 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (3 children)

Me, needing to apply to jobs: ugh, I'll do it later. (Then I finally do it, but only for like an hour)

Me, modding Skyrim: four hours later just a few more records to verify and things to tweak!


Me, during dance class: ok, you just spent about 3-5 minutes showing us the figures, but I don't remember anything you just did ๐Ÿ˜ถ Also, my brain refuses to allow my hands and feet to do different things. If I focus on my upper body movements, I completely lose everything that my feet are doing and vice versa. If I don't focus on one thing specifically and just go with it I'm fine. WTF brain?

[โ€“] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago (1 children)

You forgot that after finishing modding Skyrim you're not interested in playing anymore. In fact, it feels disgusting.

[โ€“] pete_the_cat 4 points 8 months ago

You are truly one of my kin ๐Ÿ˜‚

[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I kid you not. A few years back when vortex mod compilations weren't a thing and you had to install every mod by itself and make sure it works with other mods I ended up downloading, installing and tweaking mods for about a week until it looked and felt like I wanted. Then I never played the game. This happened more than once.

I regularly find myself in adhd memes but according to the doc I don't meet the point required to be diagnosed with ad(h)d, so I just try to somehow work.

[โ€“] pete_the_cat 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Oh absolutely, I've done the pages/tens of hours modlist installs too! I started back around 2012-2013, life took over for years, then in early 2020 COVID lockdowns happened in NYC and I needed a way to kill like 16 hours a day. I remembered modding was a good time killer, found Lexy's LOTD list, and spent about 20-25 hours (probably 3-7 hours at a time) going through it.... Twice.

How many hours did I play it before I discovered Wabbajack was a thing and installed a new list? Maybe 5 hours hahaha

[โ€“] TrousersMcPants 7 points 8 months ago (1 children)

God, I get sucked into modding Bethesda games and by the time I'm done I play them for 10 minutes tops

[โ€“] pete_the_cat 2 points 8 months ago

I picked up modding again in early 2020. I'm still doing it 4 years later. I've spent probably a few hundred hours modding the game and maybe 40 hours actually playing it.