Counterpoint: if they’re implemented well you wouldn’t need them anyhow. 😁

Achievements.

I want to enjoy the game, not artificial milestones for bragging rights.

Tomb raider.

Or, wait, capitalism. Damn that’s not a franchise, too bad.

Answering to how the question is worded:

Toilet paper. I wouldn’t normally think to buy but it’s kinda essential.

Fuck others, I need to be comfortable.

Am Neurodivergent.

Thanks, you put it better than I can.

I’d recommend not to go containerized but that can start a flame war. I would think it easier. But best to stick to the recommended beginner tutorial that someone else posted and go along from there.

Then ask questions on the way.

If you have systems or services you’re dependant so strongly, always have an backup / emergency access. 3rd party or self hosted.

My 5c but I think you agree.

Point being as a decades old it professional I see design more important as the detail implementation.

A lot of gamers actively chose this.

When the teamspeak debacle happened due to the license change a lot of players left out spite and instead of choosing the logical route to independence (like foss alternatives) many went directly to the then soon rising discord to suffer differently in another golden cage.

I will never understand (I chose mumble/murmur).

Interesting, I didn’t know the spoons. I’ve always thought of an energy bar like video game status.

Now I am at about 6 different energy bars. Still not fully figured out which it what applies where.

The fight against neurotypical expectations is real though and a massive issue.

If you want some book recommendations:

The (female) Autists by Clara Törnvall

A fields guide to Earthlings

The former is more a personal experience report and the latter a (dry) analysis from one Autist. I don’t see it the way he does fully and sometimes it’s too abstract but in general, yeah.

However there’s also the hard truth of “you’ll lose” at the end.

Good on you!

Yeah, empathy lol, it just runs rampant. It’s like that diagram that should be a circle towards the outside being balanced but in my case is a total spiky ball.

Things I “should” empathize do nothing (‘how can you be so insensitive’) and other things totally tear me up. Why? Sometimes no idea. Being overwhelmed by everything is my standard.

By now from what I read the empathy thing is just about the appearance, which goes with pretty much anything else. A neurotypical would think and conclude so, on the surface.

I’ve also never had reactions to pain like other people. And thats a major social issue, since people don’t react then, too. The logic is it can’t be bad if you’re not reacting like it.

What I found enlightening for me, since I am likely a highly masking individual:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LuZFThlOiJI

I’ve always felt different, an outsider, weird. Clumsy too. My sister had adhd diagnosed decades before it was called that. So I was aware of that but it never fit me.

At an advanced adult age I am finding out to very likely be an Autist. Never thought of that because I really don’t fit the cliché. Still, it fit and it’s like all my life is suddenly validated.

That is absolutely what the public needs to understand although we’ve been through several iterations of this already.

It’s been proven that power corrupts humans and just recently even in a medical / biological way that empathy is lost.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/social-empathy/201909/power-blocks-empathy

So, absolutely.

Let me just drop this here as constructive criticism…

https://www.mindbodygreen.com/articles/the-most-common-regrets-people-have-at-the-end-of-life

Now I know some might think there’s this guy on the internet throwing around stuff feeling very clever but let me tell you that’s not it.

I experienced it, my heart stopped. And so could yours. I was very lucky. And now I’m not running around selling the next religion (the contrary actually) however I can recommend making the time for things that count.

Because we decided to play this fucking game. Not growing is stagnation, which is wrong of course.

So we keep on hoarding more money for smaller groups.

Even needing to ask… I mean, there are no stupid questions and I know nothing about you, so, fair.

But imagine this. Streets are public transport paths with agreed upon rules. These rules are there for (likely more than but also) survival and safety.

So willfully ignoring that and racing there is risking the safety of others on purpose.

Now the answer should be clear.

For context: am motorcycle rider, drove several cars >200 km/H (>120 mp/H) legally, when it was safely possible, in Germany. Nowadays ist mostly isn’t at all.

I guess I don’t comment enough for that to happen. Or I’m too old and don’t gaf if even I myself sometimes can’t follow my thoughts.

It’s like a box of candies…

Surprising constructive discussion or did I clumsily step on someone’s ego again?

Surprised Pikachu!

Prepare to run people over!