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[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I often find myself getting distracted from whatever I'm watching because my brain takes over and starts making up alternative scenarios.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I've noticed my brain lately has been doing this thing where I'm watching something cool and it goes, "hey, wouldn't it be cool if <exact thing I'm watching>?"

Well, yeah, but why are you activating the "I have a cool variant idea related to this" pathways and distracting me instead of just watching how this one plays out?

Edit: corrected "largely" to "lately"