Anyone get permanently overwhelmed with stale notifications and obligations?

Someone sends a PM, or writes a comment, or submits a pull request, and I think in the moment "I can handle it later this weekend".

Then the weekend becomes the next because I'm too tired to handle it then, and so I push it later. In the meantime more notifications, more obligations, more this and that arrive.

Rinse and repeat until what was 1 thing that I had to complete grows into an insurmountable pile of "1 thing to complete". Such that I open the site, look around and decide to nope out of it since that's faster and easier than actually address them.

I assume others get it too, I see one of my favourite game's authors posting regularly in a game dev forum when their website hasn't received updates for 10 years and counting, or a repo's maintainer having activity on his other repos while ignoring the pull requests that were in a pretty much complete state for the last X months, you get the idea...

Responsibilities fucking suck. How the fuck do you guys adult with shit like this? No wonder so many people seemingly disappear without a trace - it's much easier to lurk than to be active.

The more concerning part is that this lack of energy seems to be spreading to my work as well. Ah this bug is too much of a bother, I'll handle it later...only the threat of deadlines and appearing like a slackoff get me to finish stuff. Am I becoming a lazy fuck or is this a sign of something worse?

Idk I feel like this is generally what things have been trending towards. Too much to do in order to afford rent or keep up with exams or whatever, not enough time for the fun stuff, not too many signs of things getting better. Have to take things in stride to avoid burning out.

I've just come to accept that the issues page in our NG repo is a hydra, and the tickets are the heads. Every time we kill one, 2 more take its place, and that's just the nature of the beast. I can be bad about putting in late nights and working weekends, but I definitely have been better about paying attention to the signs of burnout and walking away or just doing easy busy work when I need to recharge.

The trick I've been doing the past couple of years is before I take these little mental breaks, I make myself write some notes about what task is holding other things up, or what chunk needs doing to make everything else seem simpler. Having that note out there makes my brain latch to the note, not the larger to-do list, and honestly when my brain has that smaller focus, the motivation comes back because it has that ah-ha moment of "this is fucking easy, what am I worrying about?"

I wanted to say something @Gimmick but I'll just say another, dunno if it relates to you

college feels like a limbo for me.

I can't focus on assignments because they are open-ended. I can't focus on paying attention to classes because they are either too easy or too theoretical. I can't focus on side projects because I also want to have fun. I can't focus on having fun because my house is a mess. I can't focus on taking care of my home due to pending college assignments or work. I can't focus on work because of I need to do well in college.

time passes, it feels like I'm going somewhere, but I haven't really gone anywhere. limbo.

so I really just want to finish college. I have this expectation that once I start working full-time, I'll get back my insane productivity I had back in high school. I feel like a well delimited separation of work and personal life would do wonders, and I'd be able to be 100% in each moment of the day, without lingering.

maybe that's true. or maybe it's a fantasy. I don't know.

Id say it’s a mix of both based on personal experience. I am glad I finished college as it was a giant time suck mosty. for mainly the reasons you stated.

I find it’s just simply impossible to reach the level of productivity I had on this site during my most active times. It’s a bit of a bummer for sure but on the other hand, I’d like to think quality over quantity situation.

I think my lifestyle nowadays has a bit more balance as well. As productive as I was back then. All that drawing being hunched over using a mouse to draw took a toll on my wrist and I got a bit scared when I had to wear that glove and shit. So I’d like to think the marathon stuff is probably good to be retired. I say that but I’m marathoning right now for a Halloween cartoon hehe

I know that ActionScript derived from javascript considerably, but how much like java is ActionScript 2.0? Are functions outside of a class (such as like python or C++) where it doesn't have to be a member of a class to be used possible? Or is it like Java where everything must be in a class no matter what? In Python and C++ (And by extension, C) you can define and use functions outside of a class. But all my ActionScript information and documentation point to making it in a class. If I must be more like Java, It's not a big deal, but wanted to know more if I'm thinking too much like python here.