re: How to ADHD. (mh -)
But, on a happier note: Congrats on ten years, @zx3 – I'm genuinely glad you've kept it going for this long! Sorry I wasn't there last night. You know how it is.
How to ADHD. (mh -)
- get really involved at the start of something awesome that happens every couple weeks
- maintain involvement in that thing for a long while
- get distracted from it by other stuff twice in a row
- forget about it the next couple times
- try to resume
- get dragged away once more
- expect to return to it next time
- continually forget to do the thing until it's too late
- give up until years later when reminded that a big anniversary of the start of the thing is coming up
- plan to be there
- get dragged away by other stuff
- give up
- but not really because the brain never lets go of a thing one could maybe attend next time
- forget about it again
- repeat until dead
tired: baseball card in bicycle wheel spokes
wired: clapping coconut halves while on foot
inspired: this → https://imgur.com/gallery/3yyeffw (sound)
Shaggy, Baggy, and Craggy Game Design
https://medium.com/kitfox-games/in-praise-of-messy-design-62722b88258e
Shaggy Design
A shaggy game design is one that forces the player to experience wildly varying systems and gameplay along the journey of the game. Rather than the smooth predictability of an elegantly cohesive experience, a shaggy game is jagged and perhaps even shocking. It’s less of a smooth ‘arc’ or power curve, and more of a wild ride.
Ex. Nier Automata
Baggy Design
A baggy game design is one that has a wide, some might even say excessive breadth of systems. Imagine a pair of cargo pants, each pocket brimming with goodies. It not only allows the player to wander off the critical gameplay path, but rewards doing so, and in fact the player might forget what the supposedly “core” gameplay was at all.
Ex. GTA, Yakuza
Craggy Design
Craggy design is one that has surprising, some might even say excessive depth of systems. Imagine you’re walking along a mountain pass, pretty sure you know where you’re going, stepping over small gullies, when you take a moment to look into a gully and realize it plunges down into a crevasse. Do you dare to follow it to the bottom? Will you ever make it back to the trail?
Ex. Breath of the Wild
How to get the Electric Keet experience from social media. (second person, implied mh)
1) Decide whose posts you want to see.
2) Follow most of them, and a few other interesting-looking folks.
3) Fret about who you might have missed.
4) Read posts that vaguely align with your hobby interests; respond with paragraphs of minute trivia.
5) Read close friends' posts that resonate deeply in philosophical and personal ways and absolutely beg for insight or comfort; respond by clicking the little star.
6) Via mobile device, read posts that seem very interesting but require audio or long-form reading, then punt them to a "read later" list for when you're at a less mobile device.
7) Never go through those "read later" posts. There are more posts to read.
8) Continue to fret.
9) Get a bit of courage to type a little about your current interests, mood, thoughts, or environment.
10) Get discouraged halfway through when it doesn't come out right and you're not sure what CW to put on it anyway.
10b) ...unless the Adderall's kicked in!
11) Keep on fretting.
12) Refresh feed.
13) GOTO 3
for all your copyright-free shitposting needs: jon manning has created CC0 versions of the expanding brain meme https://secretlab.institute/2021/02/15/cc-0-licensed-galaxy-brain-images/
via twitter (https://twitter.com/desplesda/status/1360743216832606210)
This was made with a python script I wrote that automatically changes the graphics data in an NES ROM to look like a lower resolution. If you'd like to try it out, you can find it here:
US tax product suggestion
W-2s and 1099s are due out today! When you get them, try https://www.freetaxusa.com/ instead of turbotax. free version is full-featured, support & audit defense upsell is only $7, and the UI is way snappier.
It can't try to import your income forms, but turbotax is bad at that anyway and I already have to do a bunch of manual corrections because (by law) employee stock sales are misreported on the 1099-B in a way that makes you pay too much tax if you don't. Thanks Intuit.
The Paperboy theme is such a great groove! Love these crunchy chords.
Super Nintendo Music Does Not Need "Restoration"
by 2Mello
https://www.vice.com/en/article/akdqbp/super-nintendo-music-does-not-need-restoration
I 💖 @orrery
I 🕹️ retrogaming
I 🔊 chiptunes
I 🦄 ponies
I ☁️ cannabis
I � Unicode
and yes to 🤖 but #nobot
avatar art by Dana Simpson (danasimpson.com)