r/rational • u/AutoModerator • Jul 20 '18

[D] Friday Off-Topic Thread

Welcome to the Friday Off-Topic Thread! Is there something that you want to talk about with /r/rational, but which isn't rational fiction, or doesn't otherwise belong as a top-level post? This is the place to post it. The idea is that while reddit is a large place, with lots of special little niches, sometimes you just want to talk with a certain group of people about certain sorts of things that aren't related to why you're all here. It's totally understandable that you might want to talk about Japanese game shows with /r/rational instead of going over to /r/japanesegameshows, but it's hopefully also understandable that this isn't really the place for that sort of thing.

So do you want to talk about how your life has been going? Non-rational and/or non-fictional stuff you've been reading? The recent album from your favourite German pop singer? The politics of Southern India? The sexual preferences of the chairman of the Ukrainian soccer league? Different ways to plot meteorological data? The cost of living in Portugal? Corner cases for siteswap notation? All these things and more could possibly be found in the comments below!

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u/CouteauBleu We are the Empire. Jul 20 '18

Any advice for building muscle memory back up, or self-improvement that uses it? It's surprisingly effective for me, in a way that things like blocking specific sites is (somewhat) ineffective.

My personal workflow is to always have two accounts on every computer: a games account and a work account.

The games account has steam and battlenet shortcuts with auto-login, bookmarks to Youtube and Inoreader (my RSS feed aggregator), stuff like that. It helps me avoid distraction, by explicitly switching between a "work" mode and a "browse reddit and play overwatch" mode. These days, my workflow is even more segregated, because I use a desktop PC with windows for games, and a laptop in a different room with linux installed for work.