My 13 hour flight just got delayed 7 hours, I’m stuck at my second airport, and I dont think I’m gonna make it. I have some movies and audio books on my phone, but really only anticipated having to burn the flight time via napping and some media, not 7 hours leading up to it, and I’m pretty sure I’m gonna mentally burn out on passive media.
- I have media on my phone - movies, shows and audio books, but I can only do about 2-3 hours at a stretch before I burn out on those things.
- I have wifi and power both on the ground and on the plane, although I’m sure the connection once we get going isn’t going to be performance enough for online games.
- I have a phone and headset but didn’t bring a laptop because it was just extra bulk I didn’t think I’d need. I don’t have a switch or steam deck or anything neat.
- I have access to the airport lounge, so drinks are free, and I get free drinks on the plane. I don’t want to get wasted or have to pee constantly, so my plan is to jim lahey it.
- I’m intrigued by mobile games, but every one I’ve tried has felt too gimmicky with gambling or freemium BS mechanics. Also tried started valley but it never got me hooked either. I have an android and will buy games if they’re worth it.
- I’m open to any other ideas that could somehow mentally (or physically while on the ground) stimulate me.
- I’m a dude in my 30s with a family and kids, but I’m currently traveling solo.
- I’ve already killed 2 hours on a plane and 2 more on the ground (my planned connection time) doing nothing, I was saving my media trying to avoid burning out on shit before I get on the plane.
- I suck at sleeping when on the go.
- I’m on my 3rd mimosa and bored as fuck.
Help.
Unfucking your email. Find all the newsletters from worthless sites and block / unsubscribe. Sightly productive, and brainlessly easy.
In a similar vein, go through your photos and clean up all the extras and outtakes that you don’t want anymore. Also, star your favorites so they’re easier to find later. This can take hours if you’ve put it off for years.
Tell TSA your username. They’ll find something for you to do for 20 hours.
Those are for later 👀
Loving the Lahey reference. Might try exploring the airport with a few drinks in your head.
Getting two birds stoned at the same time
Frig off, Ricky.
I want to upvote you but your upvotes are at 69 and I don’t want to ruin the magic
Try this fruit game, it’s really addictive! Watermelon Game - Merge the Fruits
You could try Plants vs Zombies 2 or it’s other mods they are really great
Maybe it there’s a bookstore close by you can get a book? I’ve been really enjoying I am robot by Isaac Asimov. It’s sci-fi. It basically tells stories from a future where robots are more capable than humans will ever be. And to stop the robots from rioting there are 3 rules.
- Robots can never hurt people, or let them get hurt by doing nothing. (I’m translating from my first language if there’s any mistakes I’m sorry)
- Unless it interferes with the first rule robots will always obey humans.
- Unless it interferes with first and the second rule robots will always protect themselves.
One of the main points of the stories are how the robots get into situations where they hit an edge case or work around the laws.
Robots can never hurt people, or let them get hurt by doing nothing. (I’m translating from my first language if there’s any mistakes I’m sorry)
Your English is great :) The first law of robotics is usually written like this in English: “A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.”
I was a bit off 😅
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Learn Factorio.
Oh wait, you said 20, not 2000. Never mind.
Read Das Kapital Volume I by Karl Marx
:michael-laugh:
Ironically I think 20 hours is about the estimate for reading it if you read 300 wpm, iirc
Of course it’s pretty dense theory so most people aren’t gonna be reading at a fiction pace. Took me a few months to get through it.
20 hours? Just enough time to knock out two two three chapters.
Put an alarm and sleep.
Twist your thumbs
Uhh, start drinking?
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Anything interesting like a museum in the area around the airport? I had an 8 hour layover once and I just left the airport and went to a nearby Air Force museum of some sort. It was nice to walk around instead of just sitting in the airport, and I got to see a B-24
Start a new factorio game on a handheld device. Don’t forget to get out of the plane after 20 hours.
Or watch the extended cuts of Lord of the Rings plus The Hobbit. That is 1171 minutes (=20 hours).
On a more serious note: I would schedule multi-hour blocks of work time, off time and sleep. Watching movies and playing games is much more fun after work is finished, and you feel like you accomplished something. It’s also a good opportunity to do the tedious things you always wanted to do but never had the time and/or motivation (finances, taxes, studying, sorting files, sorting mails, that kind of stuff). It’s not like you had anything better to do or other places to be, and it might actually make you feel better. After three hours of working you will look forward to the movie, before going to sleep.
The Lahey link made me laugh way to hard, I’ve been sick as fuck the last 2 days and I’m laying on the couch watching trailer Park boys with a decent buzz so it’s fitting.
