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I made a swing boat that reacts to doom scrolling
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I made a swing boat that reacts to doom scrolling

DEV Community·Mohamed Idris·about 1 month ago
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When I was a kid, I tried the swing boat a few times and hated it. It made me dizzy. The kind of dizzy where you are not sure if it is fun anymore. You start slow, then someone keeps pushing, and before you know it you are too high and your stomach does not agree. I got that same feeling recently, but from scrolling. Doom scrolling is that thing you do when you open your phone for no reason and close it twenty minutes later having seen nothing worth remembering. Your finger goes up and down, up and down, the same motion as a swing. Your brain sits there getting rocked back and forth until it is numb. That is the brain rot part. Not dramatic, just slow and quiet. Your attention gets shorter. Your mood gets worse. You feel tired but you also cannot stop. I kept thinking about how the finger movement looks exactly like a swing. Up and down, rhythm, momentum. The more you do it, the harder it is to stop. Same physics, different damage. So I made a small thing to show that.…

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