History PlayingWith / LaboriousLaziness

%%* '''Played For Drama''': ???

* '''Averted''': Brian doesn't work hard for being lazy. For instance, he can be an ordinary RidiculousProcrastinator.

** Brian's team is working on a English-to-Spanish (and vice versa) program, the homework is a unit test he's running at home.

** [[BrilliantButLazy Brian]] gets some simple "conjugate and insert the missing verb" for Spanish homework. It would have taken 15 minutes, but Brian instead spends hours writing a computer program that inserts the correct verbs automatically.

* '''Downplayed''': Once when Brian got some maths problems, he found a general solution to the problem, which required use of vectors and trigonometry, even though solving them one by one using simple geometry would have been possible and easier.

** Brian does this with every task he's given. He doesn't have to do everything this way and has to skip some tasks. This takes its toll on his grades, his social life, or both.
** Brian does this regularly for the homeowrk, so when it's time to take the exam, he doesn't have a good understanding of the material.

** As it turns out, the amount of effort it took to make the "laziness solution" required enough understanding of the subject material where he understands it better than he would have by simply doing the homework as intended.

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* Brian does this with every task he's given. He doesn't have to do everything this way and has to skip some tasks. This takes its toll on his grades, his social life, or both.
* Brian does this regularly for the homeowrk, so when it's time to take the exam, he doesn't have a good understanding of the material.

* Brian invests so much time and effort into "labor saving devices" that he ends up creating a number of useful inventions that actually do make life a little easier for him... not to mention, makes him a mint when he files the patents. (Or at least, it ''would'', if he could ever be bothered to do that.)
* As it turns out, the amount of effort it took to make the "laziness solution" required enough understanding of the subject material where he understands t better than he would have by simply doing the homework as intended.

%%* '''Implied''': ???
* '''Deconstructed''': Brian does this with every task he's given. He doesn't have to do everything this way and has to skip some tasks. This takes its toll on his grades, his social life, or both.
* '''Reconstructed''': Brian invests so much time and effort into "labor saving devices" that he ends up creating a number of useful inventions that actually do make life a little easier for him... not to mention, makes him a mint when he files the patents. (Or at least, it ''would'', if he could ever be bothered to do that.)

%%* '''Reconstructed''': ???

** Brian has a test on Friday. Practising for it would have taken a couple of hours, but Brian instead spends an entire week analysing different methods of cheating, trying to find an effective one that also minimizes the chance of getting caught.

** Brian loves working hard to the extant that he [[RidiculousProcrastinator procrastinates]] so he will have to work quickly.

** Brian's motto is "Let's get this shit over with."; he believes in getting work out of the way quickly and with as little time and efort spent as possible.

* '''Inverted''': Brian loves working hard to the extant that he [[RidiculousProcrastinator procrastinates]] so he will have to work quickly.

** Charlie has a test on Friday. Practising for it would have taken a couple of hours, but Charlie instead spends an entire week analyzing different methods of cheating, trying to find an effective one that also minimizes the chance of getting caught.

* '''Inverted''': Brian does his homework normally and very effectively.

* '''Subverted''': Brian writes programs that do the work for him. Because he's a programming genius, they actually save him time.
* '''Double Subverted''': Until he starts finding many bugs that need fixing.

* '''Conversed''': "Brian could save himself a lot of trouble by doing those things normally."

* '''Downplayed''': Once when Brian got some maths problems, he solved them with vectors and trigonometry, even though simple geometry would have sufficed and been easier.