Scenario: You are bored and don't have much energy, but not tired enough to sleep, what do you do?

You're lookin at it

Sit around petting the dogs

The dog in question:

A bright screen will surely make me fall asleep.

Take two Tylenol PM and try to finish masturbating before you pass out.

Your welcome.

gestures broadly at this

Jerk off.

Depends on the level of tired. Currently if I have enough energy I'll contribute to openstreetmap by adding some missing buildings, parkings, opening times, etc. If I don't or I'm in bed I scroll tiktok

I usually ask people on the internet what they would do if they don't have much energy, but not tired enough to sleep.

Go to bed anyway

well, before antidepressants, I would've said "jerk off"

but now, errr... I dunno, torture people in video games?

As long as I’m not too horny to sleep and too sleepy to masturbate, I’ll masturbate.

Watch movies

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I'm in home or at work?

Pretend I am a monk from Monty Python and the Holy Grail until I render myself unconscious.

Get high and watch a random video essay

Watch videos before passing out. It's what usually happens to me every night.

Phone game. Lately it's been Balatro or Slice and Dice.

Pokemon.

Go for a saunter, even if it's just out the front door.

Play a game or watch something

Play a house flipping game until my eyeballs burn.

If I’m super tired but not willing to sleep yet for reasons (lack of free time other than the evening, being the main one), I usually put the tv on and play games on my phone. Not a great use of time but as we’ve established, tired.

If I’m tired but not that tired, I put the tv on and I knit. It’s my main hobby and I’m good at it, to the point that it usually doesn’t require much thought. My secondary hobby is sewing which is much newer for me and I can’t do that tired; I make too many mistakes.

It sounds like I watch a lot of tv, but in reality the period of 9-10:30pm is the only chance I get and not every night. So it’s not that much in the long run.

Watch the YouTube or doom scroll Lemmy or /v/

You brush your teeth

Knock it down, one way or another.

Go here, or finish reading my articles from my RSS feeds.

Read various articles. Scientific or economic, something else. Sometimes analysis together with GPT Chat. But more often it's a series in the background while still reading. And then put the phone down and listen to the series in a mask. And that's it.