Does anyone else

Yes

I’ve never met anyone in person who’s even heard of Lemmy. Well, at least whenever it’s brought up 😅

it escalates into an emergency, at which point you don’t really need dopamine to deal with it anymore, now that you have adrenaline.

Oh, that’s why that happens

And be angry at the fire for interrupting you? And forget what the comment was about and just send it, hoping the response made sense but it doesn’t matter anyway because you forgot what the comment you were replying to is about and what the post was about and hey let’s open another app?

ADHD can feel like you’re putting in 350% of effort 100% of the time but only achieving 50% of what others achieve, and then being treated like you only put in 10%.

My whole childhood & life before diagnosis, my intelligence and literally everything am good at was used as proof up career & academic & household stuff out of spite.

The paradox of #ADHD - being excellent at complex, high-stimulus tasks and fuck- all at routine, “easy” tasks was a weapon in the hands of parents, teachers, & employers and a constant abusive echo in my brain.

What internalized was that accomplishments that were fun or that came easy to me had no value, only the ones that involve effort “count.” But the things that involved the most effort for me were mundane tasks that came easy to others, so they had no value, either.

ADHD involves SO many micromoments of shame. Stepping Over the pile of laundry. Re- remembering the bill you still haven’t paid. The sink full of dishes and the fridge leftovers lurking in the back. The small but recurring should have" is cumulative and it’s painful.

The last one’s text wasn’t "Select"able on my phone

In Korean (and I think some Chinese/Japanese keyboards) you can “build” the character, from building blocks like this

I’d say you’re not building the character, but typing in the characters one by one.

집, as you know from typing it, is three characters in one. All three components are distinct. They can’t stand alone, but that’s not much different than “c” not really being able to stand alone in English. (If we refer to the letter C, we often capitalize it)

In Japanese, people can easily type in Hiragana (their “alphabet”), and the Kanji can be suggested like with autocorrect. The sound is the same, but the visual is different.

Chinese is a different beast because they don’t have an “alphabet” of “letters” the ways that Korean and Japanese do.

(They’re not “alphabets”, but they do have elements that are much closer to letters than Chinese does)

You said “I’ve learned” meaning it’s not common knowledge. This post also makes it sound like something you’ve recently learned. So you should have the source handy, no?

There’s a set story, but it’s discovered. The world is wide open, and the player can go anywhere right at the start of the game. There’s minimal railroading at any point.

Unless I misunderstood what you meant by emergent narrative. The progression through the game requires the player to learn what to do by interacting with aliens and also exploring a bit. There is an in-game hint system (an alien dialogue tree with prices), but there are often multiple solutions to each “problem”. The player can even get through the game being good or evil – whatever they choose!

The game plays very differently than ME, but you’ll probably find the dialogue trees very familiar. And I think SC2 actually does them better than ME.

I forgot to mention that part – yeah, the series is still alive, and fans have been waiting for that sequel from the original creators for what, 30 years now?

A game that meaningful should always be given a look, even if it can feel a bit “dated” in some ways.

Thanks for bringing that up!

There’s the game that inspired them from the early 90s, Star Control 2.

It’s free on Steam as Free Stars: The Ur-Quan Masters, but the best way to play it today is Ur-Quan Masters Mega Mod. So many QoL features!

The game also had some sequels, including Star Control Origins, which is a more modern game, but the story isn’t quite as good.

Star Control 3 exists, but sucks.

And then there’s the series from the 80s that inspired this one, Starflight. That one was too dated for me to get into, though.

I don’t think it’s talked about because it’s missing the point, isn’t it? It’s about digital security and privacy. The fact that it’s a social media platform doesn’t make a difference. If a mobile game were able to harvest data inappropriately the same way, wouldn’t the problem be the same?

Not that I agree with the ban, but making it about freedom of speech seems like a stretch to me.

So… it’s looking like OP is the dumb one, huh? Lol

My brother tried before, but Mouse Trap seems to kind of suck as a game.

I didn’t know Operation has cards…

Why would I want to subject my pet companion to being forced to pose for pictures with ghosts? That just sounds cruel!

Yeah, see? I didn’t read that. And I’m not going to read anything you post/comment with this account.

A 5-paragraph shitpost is also stupid. Do most people even read them to the end?

I’m guessing this is satire, but it’s also just not funny.

If this were a serious question, I’d answer it with “/s”. That’s the way to do it on the internet

Rock Band 2. Bladder of Steel achievement playing with a full band of 4 (locally).

It’s playing the entire setlist of 84 or so songs all the way through in one sitting. Without pausing or failing.

We did it with all instruments on Medium, but we did it! (I could pass anything on Expert, but maybe not all the way through. My friends were borderline Hard players at best, so Medium was the only way we’d ever be able to do it together)

I’m on Voyager and sh.itjust.works, and they’re still not working for me, lol

Yes, it is redundant. The things people can say are not always completely medically accurate.