Comment on I'm Not Participating in This Year's Advent of Code For Very Good Reasons
spencerwi@lemm.ee 6 months ago
Thank u Jason, very cool !!
Seriously though, good for you I guess? Not sure why you’re grandstanding about it.
Meanwhile, I’m doing it the way I have in years past: as a fun set of puzzles that let me write code I enjoy in a language I like, because I do actually enjoy writing code, and only until my real-life schedule no longer allows.
Nobody’s saving the world by posting on their personal blogs about how they’re bravely and boldly not doing a serious of optional advent-calendar puzzles.
jasonbot@programming.dev 6 months ago
I’m not “Grandstanding” so much as “resisting”; I’ve been peer pressured into participating for half a decade. It’s always made me feel bad. There’s no shame in opting out.
spencerwi@lemm.ee 6 months ago
I mean, is “other people are having fun” really something that demands a resistance?
Or could you, perhaps, just not do it and not care whether that makes you “cool” or not?
It’s like that bit from Community: “wear it because of them, don’t wear it because of them — either way, it’s for them.”
Just be you, without having to have some sort of faux “resistance” to justify yourself.
Styxia@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I hope you don’t mind my asking; what’s the nature of the peer pressure to participate you’re facing?