I saw a link on Slashdot to this article, and really, I just feel the same way. The game industry is seriously shallow. I liked Doom, and I liked The Sims, and now I just can’t seem to find anything else like that. Flashy graphics attract me, sure, but good gameplay attracts me even more; not to mention that I really do not have top notch hardware anyway.

I myself stopped playing games around the time I moved to Linux, mainly because I felt I didn’t need them anymore. Every now and then there’d be something interesting (Morrowind), but I just stopped playing after a while - I just sort of forgot it.

You know what, just stop playing games. They suck, nobody needs them, just keep on working.

This is a fundemental idea in productivity: Screw the outside world. Disconnect yourself, alienate yourself, seal yourself up in a jar, do _something_, just don’t be in touch with the outside world. You’re not a part of it, it’s not a part of you, and it’s the one thing that is going to spoil the next line of code in your project.

That was by now listening to other people you can finally concentrate on your things.

I happened to come across this very simple tip.

If you’re working on something, make sure you turn off sounds in IM programs. What I mean is that you should tell Gaim, MSN, ICQ or whatever you’re using to shut the hell up while you’re working on those extremely important documents.

It’ll save you time. Imagine yourself trying to do your important report for your boss - which happens to be due tomorrow in a crowded room where everybody’s talking. Not the ideas environment, eh?

Turn off those sounds while you’re working on something, it’ll help you.