Well, foo. Lost about 9 hours of mapping work to a backup error. 😭
Ah well. Saddle up and soldier on ...
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@victorgijsbers Yeah. 😭
The weird part is knowing it'll never look the same ... so rather than even try to re-create that work as it was, I'm deliberately working on other parts of the map now ... and when I get back to that part I'll probably deviate from my former approach, just so it doesn't feel like failing to get it right, but rather succeeding at doing it different. 🤔
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@[email protected] @[email protected] I do this with code every so often, and on the one hand it feels such a waste and I hate it. And on the other hand, I then re-write the same thing in half the time and twice as well because I've already done the thing and now I know how I want to do it.
A traitorous part at the back of my brain sometimes tries to convince me that this is what "real" editing/refactoring looks like, and to write code/prose to a "good" quality I should always draft and then recreate. But that's a filthy lying part of my brain that lies, because that way lies nothing but #ADHD procrastination lock and perfectionism. I try and only let the little weasel out on things that actually need that level of polish.
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@mavnn @victorgijsbers I always do draft and redraft as it is, but I agree that too much iteration isn't a great thing; it's a bullet train toward the horizon of diminishing returns. 😁
With a fantasy map I enjoy the benefit of there being only a few requirements for how it must be ... so I'm free to reimagine rather than re-create.
But I have, historically, never been sorry about it in the long run.
Only in that horrible moment of realization. 😭😭😭
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@[email protected] @[email protected] I suppose I need to be more precise: I will draft important writing, and I prototype code all the time. But that's very emotionally different from actually doing it for real and then restarting (which is, of course, a stupid squishy brain matter distinction).
The realization moment when that happens unexpectedly is inexplicably agonizing compared to the amount of time lost; I know on at least one occasion I spent much longer trying to restore the corrupted backup than it would have taken to just redo the work! If I'm trying to get the effect on purpose, I just do my best and then ask my wife (who is significantly better eye for detail than I have) what needs work which inevitiably gives me more than enough incentive to burn the first attempt to the ground and make something better. This strategy works fantastically, except when I'm actually trying to make something for my wife when it works... less well.
@rigger It's rare, fortunately. Every five or six years. 😓 Fortunately my backups are redundant and such so it's almost impossible to lose more than one workday ... but that was an extra-long workday. 😬
@SJohnRoss Ouch! 😕