net slum: Everyone can binge.4

A quick concept I’ve come up with. I was thinking of how I eat food - I always eat until I’m full, if I can. Then I realized how I spent the last 45 minutes: like a crazed animal, (xD bad analogy) I have been pounding through my YouTube subscriptions. When larry called me as I was playing SC2…

        That’s pretty much what I do. Flash games, regular games, books, homework, webcomics… Wouldn’t be the first time if I sat down with a bunch of flash games bookmarked to plow through. On the other hand, flash games are the only thing there that give the same kind of immediate pleasure, followed by recriminations and self-loathing in the vein of binging on junk food while I’m at work. I’d say that’s an essential part of it, knowing you shouldn’t but doing it anyway. When I don’t drink enough water or don’t bring a big enough supper with me, I’ll spend a good $5-10 every day or two that I work. Especially when I work after school, because I may not have bothered to eat lunch and likely haven’t had much water, so I feel super empty and grab an ice cream sandwich and a sub and a chocolate bar, and continue to snack on stuff until 10 pm. Likewise, say I’ve been studying for a while and collecting flash games and feel pretty empty, so I spend the night playing whatever random games.

        I’d say when it becomes so commonplace it stops being a binge and starts being a routine/bad habit/whatever, which goes back to this thing that vossk posted which I’d do if I had stupid routines. Unfortunately, instead the things I need to get away from are school and work, and I can’t really avoid those.

        @ vael/brain improving: I dunno about the memory thing, because where does information become useless? I remember a lot of stuff, and it probably won’t ever help me, but they’re nice things to remember. I don’t want to be the teenager who gets no sleep and is always saying “man I barely remember yesterday, you expect me to remember that” which stops being funny when it’s true. I don’t expect people to remember that time they got a bloody nose during a snowball fight, but when I go “hey remember when we made plans a few weeks ago” “no, we never made any plans, plus that would be boring” “ok, I guess that’s a no then” it’s kinda ridiculous.

        Of course, I’ve been learning “useless” junk for most of my time in school, so who knows? I’ve already forgotten all but the most basic of physics applications, because my teacher this year was terrible and I will never, ever, touch physics with anything less than a hazmat suit to protect me.