I find that when I used to stay up throughout the night and try to finish work, I made a lot of mistakes because I never wanted to do it in the first place. So I just take an early sleep time and wake up early and just finish everything off.
Yeah, it's almost a given that extra terrestrial life is out there. What I didn't want is somebody to start with the conspiracy theories about Alien encounters lol.
Yeah, you're absolutely spot on.
I think this was more impactful because the whole world was watching it in real time - I mean every channel was covering it and for weeks it was the topic of discussion.
Some people are so materialistic because they tie their existence and meaning to physical stuff. Stuff that in the grand scheme of things, don't really matter and will get replaced sooner or later.
Capcom went through a somewhat similar thing in the 2010s and it wasn't until around 2015-16 that they recovered so I just used timeframe as reference.
When it starts to impact your life, then you need to take a step back which you did. Most parents wouldn't understand gaming as it still has a stigma of being unproductive.