Productive Procrastination

I suppose the best part about having something to put off (such as this blog) is that it forces you to work on something else. While it may not seem like much, since the last time I posted here, I made the first real post on Ubuntu Beginnings. That and I played a lot of Diablo II.

You may notice that I started to work on the theme and then gave up. I'll save it for a day when I really need to put out a Rich Magazine article and then I'll make something fantastic. I did end up making a userbar though, because that's what I've been doing a lot recently.



I think a big problem I have is I consider playing Diablo (and pretty much any game) somewhat of an accomplishment. Killing enemies gives you experience, experience allows you to level up, leveling up allows you to use better equipment and skills, better skills allow you to get farther in the game, getting farther increases the difficulty and starts the cycle over. I just want to see the end of the game. And then beat it on Nightmare. And again on Hell. A friend once told me that playing games is not a waste of time because the creator put a lot of effort into making the game and it's a waste of all that work not to play the game. I like thinking of it that way because it makes me feel less like a waste of space and more of a productive member of our information driven society.