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Re:Last Flight Out by 0xbadcafebee on Wednesday February 15, 2023 @09:28AM (#34804223)
As someone who has lived rather isolated for long stretches, I think the one thing that helps fight feeling isolated is to find your joy and practice it. My joy is in creative outlets. When I'm alone, I sing, woodwork, cook new recipes, garden [indoors or out], sew. If I had a large indoor space I'd probably practice slacklining, aerial arts, tumbling, parkour, climbing. And then there's the computer, where I can create music and endless programs, websites. I haven't even touched on painting, drawing, playing music. And all that can be supplemented by podcasts, music, movies/TV, reading, chores, working out. There's really so much to do indoors if you can cultivate a creative mindset.
Re:Last Flight Out by Aeolun on Wednesday February 15, 2023 @11:11AM (#34805784)
Or, instead of all that. You can spend your entire summer at the south pole playing a single game of Factorio.
Re:Last Flight Out by 2-718-281-828 on Wednesday February 15, 2023 @01:13PM (#34808094)
the joke's lost on me? I know the game (never played it, though) but why "a single game"?
Re:Last Flight Out by recursiveturtle on Wednesday February 15, 2023 @01:56PM (#34808776)
The…base…must…grow…
Re:Last Flight Out by tomalpha on Wednesday February 15, 2023 @03:18PM (#34809963)
A single game of Factorio can take a long time. Mine usually take around 100 hours.

The craving to (tweak|move|refactor|grow) the base for certain personality types that are richly represented on HN can mean you can spend hundreds more on it too.

Re:Last Flight Out by rippercushions on Thursday February 16, 2023 @06:05AM (#34817254)
Try installing the Space Exploration mod, and you can easily add an extra zero to that figure.
Re:Last Flight Out by isoprophlex on Thursday February 16, 2023 @05:32AM (#34817043)
I played more hours than I care to admit during the pandemic and I think that was... 3, 4 games?

You can practically play it forever.

Re:Last Flight Out by a-priori on Thursday February 16, 2023 @10:54AM (#34820282)
I think a lot of those physical things you suggested, like parkour and climbing, would be extremely risky because the last thing you'd want is to injure yourself in the middle of an Antarctic winter.