22 minutes ago, Vilem Otte said:

While I have less time to actually make games now, having more interests made me work a lot more efficiently and waste a lot less time.

This is very nice for you! Keep adding more interests!

I have the modeling/programming programs open all the time, but i code not all the time. For example, chatting here in the forum from time to time is improving my codding. If i am 10hours codding in a row, most probably i will go to sleep and at the next morning i would delete it all for being a completely nonsense. I easily get stuck and blinded from concentration itself. Distractions ire very beneficent for me. And the act of playing with a cat could give me ideas about codding too. 

I bought a cheap electric piano to learn to play, but finally programming won and it is now in its box. I try it, but there is always so much work to do on front of the screen. The worst is even if i try to do other things, i am still thinking in the problem to solve.

I wish to travel a bit. Maybe proving/disproving the Earth is flat That would be great!

5 minutes ago, turanszkij said:

you need to practice, practice, practice

i am most of the time doing investigation. If i tried to code known techniques from a technical papers, i would finish a 3D engine in less than one year. But this, constant experimenting is eating 90% of my time.

I would not try to code yet another engine/app if there were nothing new i think i could "invent". We have already too many engines out there.

Today i forgot to eat again, got very hungry and my head started hurting. "i will just do that, i will just finish that chunk here..and go to eat". The working places at home of some programmers look (sorry for saying that) miserable and depressing.
The monitors hurts too. Having to dig inside the corners of a 3D model inside the modeling software is painful to the eyes. I turn and turn and turn it until i find a corner from where i have visibility. It gives me headaches.
If i were a woman, i would not date somebody obsessed with something so much.

Somebody could say that the problem is i am too obsessive, but what if i were obsessive with sports, not programming? I would have a sixpack and medals. Now i have a basement....

15 minutes ago, NikiTo said:

Somebody could say that the problem is i am too obsessive, but what if i were obsessive with sports, not programming?

A healthy obsession with keeping yourself in shape is not a problem, but obsession with sport itself is more questionable as a pursuit to spend all your time on than programming imo.

Sports are often full of random chance that you have no control over, there are unlikely to be rewards except for a few lucky ones, and any day you can have an injury that will end a sport career, rendering all that effort wasted. Whereas with programming, in nearly all circumstances you will still be able to use the skill you have gained. It is like the difference between putting your savings in a bank for high interest, or gambling them at a casino.

25 minutes ago, NikiTo said:

If i were a woman, i would not date somebody obsessed with something so much.

Who cares what women think who are not right for you? Don't waste time trying to impress them. Just find one (or several) that want you for who you are and what you enjoy.

Good quote here:

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Obsessed is a word the lazy use to describe the dedicated

37 minutes ago, lawnjelly said:

Whereas with programming, in nearly all circumstances you will still be able to use the skill you have gained.

We swim in an ocean, we have to adapt or die. Ocean says: "you need a career and income to proof your as a human being! nobody cares about your inventions nobody paid you for!"
If a person loses the social touch with external world, he could lose his social skills(i open the mouth and everybody instantly hates me. what did i say?!?!). If a person is not able to work in a team, he very very very hardly will find a job in programming. Modern programming practices expect people to work in teams. Everywhere, i was told by everyone like: "even if you are the best programmer out there(i am not, just saying), if you can not work in a team, you will not find work, you will have no money, no money no worth as a human being, antidepressant pills, anime, hikikomori, hentai, basement.."

 I was making once with a kid boy a shooting game in Scratch at Coder Dojo. When the staff said everyone to have a break to pick some sweets, that boy kept staying with Scratch. When his mother came to take it home, I told her that it is not normal for a kid to skip sweets because of Scratch(almost every other kid left Scratch and gone to the table with the sweets). I advised her to not bring that kid more and to not let it become a programmer.

27 minutes ago, swiftcoder said:

With that kind of attitude, I can only hope you aren't in the business of teaching kids anymore. Not all kids are the same - I certainly would have taken an interesting project over sweets at any age.

It was never a business. Nobody took money form the kids and we all were volunteers.
I did for that kid what i would do for my little kid brother, or for my own child. My conscience is white clear.
I am not anymore volunteering there. I tried it to see how is it, but we were forced to force kids to code. Some kids wasn't wanting to code, and was watching youtube. The organizers told me to force them somehow to code. Not cool for me. And i stopped volunteering there.