Are you Australian?

Haha I had to chime in.

Best beginner tips - explore a level fully before you drink any potions. Certain “potion” rooms will always have the potion that solves the puzzle in them on the same floor -

• fish room will have an invisible potion,
• evil crystal sentry will have a haste potion,
• gas filled room will have a purity potion,
• Wooden door can be burned with fire pot,
• Magic fire can be put out with ice potion,
• Completely trap filled room has a levitation pot on the same level

Upgraded items (wands/armor/weapons# x , potions of strength, and scrolls of upgrade cannot be destroyed by bombs, or explosive traps/stones. This is a good way to identify items with bonuses (armor/weapons)

Well of health will cleanse all worm cursed items, heal you to fill, and remove all negative status (including hunger/starvation)

Oh also. Sneak attacking/surprise attacks - yellow exclamation above their heads. Moving through a door, with an anemy right behind, will close the door behind you, and cause them to have to open it - meaning you get a free chance to attack and auto-hit.

Have you beaten Yog Dweza, and retrieved the Amulet of Yendor?

Shattered Pixel Dungeon. I have another phone, this one is recent, with at least 2k games on it

Evan consistently updates Shattered Pixel Dungeon, and I fucking love his game. It’s it’s own version of the open source Pixel -f415-471f-9968-8e2f71c3ea3c.png)

Sounds to me like you have learned some things. You’re just looking for encouragement, now, which is totally understandable and very very commendable.

Don’t ever let yourself question your progress as a static benchmark. You question your habits and wish to return to a more productive/happier state… do you see something wrong with that? It’s very human, and we all fall off the horse and have to recover, sometimes

Dust yourself off - take a breathe - keep going, when you can.

Follow your own drum beat and keep focus on those things you wrote about - improving yourself seemed to make you happy. Good luck - You don’t need it. ✌️