Case Study: Why you should play Factorio
The benefits of playing Factorio compared to? Compared to programming on your own project? Compared to reading something intellectually stimulating? Compared to working out or investing time to eat healthy and sleep properly? Compared to spending time with people you love? Compared to fulfilling your actual _responsibilities_?<p>&gt; &quot;If you’re in a slump (rut), chances are you feel like you can’t complete anything. You feel like you’re unable to finish anything so what’s the point of starting. Factorio is a great cure against that. Especially when you view it as a challenge.&quot;<p>&quot;Why you should play Factorio&quot; ; you absolutely can, it might have more benefits for you than other games, but besides that I really have trouble with such a headline, especially since the URL is called &quot;deprocastination&quot; (the home page sells an e-book, which promises to solve your problems and you can sign up via e-mail, not confidence inspiring). If you want to stop procrastinating, you probably should just delete Steam and get on with your tasks?<p>I&#x27;m not saying it&#x27;s easy. There are things that can help: Meditation, proper task scheduling, talking to people about your problems, stress management techniques, in extreme cases therapy ...<p>&quot;Play Factorio!&quot; - Great advice &#x2F;s<p>&gt; &quot;You can start taking the skills you learned and use them for anything else that is productive.&quot;<p>FAANG should look for new employees on World of Warcraft servers... &#x2F;s<p>There is no technological cure to a spiritual problem. This is selling snake oil.<p><i>Edit1: interesting to see the up-&#x2F; and downvotes on this. I am not dissing gaming, not dissing the game. But recommending a computer game as a means to deal with procrastination and develop &quot;real life skills you can use being productive&quot; (paraphrased), that notion I do indeed find ludicrous and stand by it.<p>Edit2: From an answer I gave to a comment below (sorry for the edit, but I think I worded it in a nice way there):<p>The implication, that &quot;procrastination&quot; means &quot;no due diligence&quot; in anything is _WRONG_. It&#x27;s due diligence in things that should take no priority as the very means to avoid the things you should be doing instead!<p>&quot;Play Factorio, it has benefits for you that help you be productive&quot; in response to someone dealing with procrastination? If that isn&#x27;t absurd, I don&#x27;t know what is.</i>