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I have 5?k hours in LoL around high plat / in previous season low diamond and I'd say that LoL while being different from competitive programming

is still exhausting if you want to play it with full focus for a few hours.

Of course there's difference between playing ARAMs for fun and tryharding on "relatively competent" ELO where you try to do not commit mistakes as hard as you can and games are not "fiestas" (lack of strategy, just fighting)

>You absolutely can autopilot through a game and still win.

Significant part of day2day programming can be pretty brainless/trivial too - yet another gluing json over http. Don't get me wrong, there are insanely exhausting projects too.

During programming you can take break whenever you want, go to kitchen, watch memes, hn, read news, blabla, meanwhile when you're in game, then you can't*.

How often do you engage your slow brain (from thinking fast and slow)?

I feel like it's like speed chess and not normal chess. You have no time to think till after the game, you just have to do and trust your gut.

The slow brain is what exhausts you.

There are slower and faster moments.

e.g after recalling/killing enemies/dying you have like 30sec to look around map and think what you as team want to do / achieve and how to do that

It depends on the stage of the game, but generally when enemies are around, then you may don't have time to think.

That's been my experience too. I never felt exhausted playing. Thinking about what to do better between games was more draining.

I've never played competitively, though I did get to about top 3000 in North America. Thanks for sharing!

I mean I'm not saying that I do not feel exhausted after playing

Matches where e.g we lose early game and have to come back somehow by avoiding commiting mistakes hard and somehow catching off somebody from enemy team could be exhausting cuz you're basically balacing on the edge for 30min :P

> e.g after recalling/killing enemies/dying you have like 30sec to look around map and think what you as team want to do / achieve and how to do that

30 seconds is infinite in games like that.

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