My girl is a saint and takes amazing care of me when I can’t. I know how lucky I am to have her. I’ve never had to be the carer other than when an ex recovered from a crash, but that was all bruising and whiplash.
The Tetris thing is actually pretty specific, it doesn’t work for everyone. It helps with intrusive images and thoughts for me. https://theconversation.com/can-playing-tetris-help-prevent-ptsd-if-youve-witnessed-something-traumatic-226736 I’m decent at Tetris, saved up and bought the OG Gameboy back in the day. I get into the zone when I’m feeling bad and I can feel it push out some the bad stuff. It’s something to do with the forced geometric thinking.
I never really got into strategy games except for Sim City. Adventure point and click, RPG (especially SF and Fallout 1-3), fps (Doom and Duke). These days, I find games that my girl enjoys watching such as Zelda. She does her yarning and I’ll play Zelda. Just finished Tears of the Kingdom, was thinking about replaying MYST or something next.
Ah, I didn’t realize the specifics of Tetris and the geometric puzzling being particularly effective.
But if you did like SimCity, and the earlier Fallout games…
There are a lot of modern rough equivalents to those.
Open Transport Tycoon Deluxe is roughly SimCity 2000 on steroids… more game mechanics, similar level of graphics, open source, totally free.
Fallout 1 and 2 have many, expansive, total overhaul mods these days, that basically use the base game and tell an entirely new story with it.
There’s also Fallout Online, which is I think a modded/jerry-rigged version of Fallout 2 that expands it and turns it into a multiplayer, sort of MMO.
Beyond that you’ve got like… Atom RPG Trudograd, the ShadowRun pc games, Colony Ship… there have been a multitude of isometric RPG games with turn based combat in the years since Fallout 1/2…
And, if you liked Doom… well, there are now tons of Doom mods, infact, a reworked and opensource version of the Doom engine, gzdoom, has actually served as the engine a bunch of successful indie games have been built off of… the Zoomers have given such games the moniker of ‘Boomer Shooters’… but yeah theres tons of those kinds of games on Steam or otherwise available.
…
But uh anyways, me?
I’m doing alright.
I could trauma dump about all the insane bullshit I’ve been through, but whats the point?
Hermit me is happy me, genuinely.
I’m a simple man at heart.
Very intelligent snd academically gifted, high functioning autistic.
“Hell is other people.”
Socializing often doesnt go well for me because most people are hypocritical bullshitters by default about most things, I call that out instantly and laugh at it, and because most people are so stuck up their own asses, they hate me for that… the few who can laugh at themselves become friends.
But in the end, all I need to be happy is food, water, shelter, a decent bed and chair, some kind of creative input/output screen or otherwise.
I used to play bass, would love to get into that or perhaps another instrument if I can get decent dexterity recovery… but I am now almost at the point where I can actually do a daily walk, and I honestly just love going for nature walks, so that’ll be great.
If I can get a cheap but not immensely shitty apartment somewhere close to Canada, I plan on making a video game … doesn’t have to make me rich, just serves as a creative and techbrained hobby… and, it might actually make some money, who knows.
Looks like the downvoters are chasing you again. Must be putting in work, fuckem.
I don’t get the same enjoyment from computer games that I used to. (I played heaviest when in highschool which was miserable and during my first marriage, which was hell) I rarely watch TV when alone. Tend to read or tinker, do some hardware hacking or whittling.
These days it’s a good way to spend time with my girl. Finishing up a Supernatural rewatch currently.
But yeah, it’s weird, I just don’t enjoy it the way I used to. Not that I don’t understand why people enjoy gaming so much. I’ve got a badass computer that I don’t think I’ve installed a game on. It’s built for CAD so it’s real beefy.
That, or I’m just becoming an old fart and casual gaming is more my speed.
My girl is high functioning, I’m crazy AF, but typical. When we were in a triad, that partner was high functioning as well. In the BDSM community, autists are so over represented compared to gen pop it’s wild. I don’t know what causes it, it’s probably a field that needs investigated. I tend to get along with autistic folks, always have, I think it’s a compatible communication style, I tend to over define by typical standards. Also, y’all don’t seem to lie much.
I’m a music lover and had music lessons on guitar and sax as a kid. However, I lack musical talent. I’m missing that spark that lets music flow and I can’t improvise or even come up with an original melody or rhythm. I just wasn’t born with it.
My talents are mechanical and artistic. I’m better at sculpture than drawing or painting.
You don’t have to have a reason to make a video game other than you want to. Maybe it makes money, maybe it doesn’t. Completing something you built, you put art and science into it, that’s a powerful thing. Taking an idea and making it real is an addictive thing. (Probably has a lot to do with why I love machining so much.) You should do it. Don’t wait until you’ve moved, no reason you can’t start.
Laying down and don’t have headphones, I’ll have to listen to it tomorrow.
My girl is a saint and takes amazing care of me when I can’t. I know how lucky I am to have her. I’ve never had to be the carer other than when an ex recovered from a crash, but that was all bruising and whiplash.
The Tetris thing is actually pretty specific, it doesn’t work for everyone. It helps with intrusive images and thoughts for me. https://theconversation.com/can-playing-tetris-help-prevent-ptsd-if-youve-witnessed-something-traumatic-226736 I’m decent at Tetris, saved up and bought the OG Gameboy back in the day. I get into the zone when I’m feeling bad and I can feel it push out some the bad stuff. It’s something to do with the forced geometric thinking.
I never really got into strategy games except for Sim City. Adventure point and click, RPG (especially SF and Fallout 1-3), fps (Doom and Duke). These days, I find games that my girl enjoys watching such as Zelda. She does her yarning and I’ll play Zelda. Just finished Tears of the Kingdom, was thinking about replaying MYST or something next.
How are you feeling?
Ah, I didn’t realize the specifics of Tetris and the geometric puzzling being particularly effective.
But if you did like SimCity, and the earlier Fallout games…
There are a lot of modern rough equivalents to those.
Open Transport Tycoon Deluxe is roughly SimCity 2000 on steroids… more game mechanics, similar level of graphics, open source, totally free.
Fallout 1 and 2 have many, expansive, total overhaul mods these days, that basically use the base game and tell an entirely new story with it.
There’s also Fallout Online, which is I think a modded/jerry-rigged version of Fallout 2 that expands it and turns it into a multiplayer, sort of MMO.
Beyond that you’ve got like… Atom RPG Trudograd, the ShadowRun pc games, Colony Ship… there have been a multitude of isometric RPG games with turn based combat in the years since Fallout 1/2…
And, if you liked Doom… well, there are now tons of Doom mods, infact, a reworked and opensource version of the Doom engine, gzdoom, has actually served as the engine a bunch of successful indie games have been built off of… the Zoomers have given such games the moniker of ‘Boomer Shooters’… but yeah theres tons of those kinds of games on Steam or otherwise available.
…
But uh anyways, me?
I’m doing alright.
I could trauma dump about all the insane bullshit I’ve been through, but whats the point?
Hermit me is happy me, genuinely.
I’m a simple man at heart.
Very intelligent snd academically gifted, high functioning autistic.
“Hell is other people.”
Socializing often doesnt go well for me because most people are hypocritical bullshitters by default about most things, I call that out instantly and laugh at it, and because most people are so stuck up their own asses, they hate me for that… the few who can laugh at themselves become friends.
But in the end, all I need to be happy is food, water, shelter, a decent bed and chair, some kind of creative input/output screen or otherwise.
I used to play bass, would love to get into that or perhaps another instrument if I can get decent dexterity recovery… but I am now almost at the point where I can actually do a daily walk, and I honestly just love going for nature walks, so that’ll be great.
If I can get a cheap but not immensely shitty apartment somewhere close to Canada, I plan on making a video game … doesn’t have to make me rich, just serves as a creative and techbrained hobby… and, it might actually make some money, who knows.
How am I feeling?
https://youtube.com/watch?v=1jVaKBB0jHU
Like that.
Looks like the downvoters are chasing you again. Must be putting in work, fuckem.
I don’t get the same enjoyment from computer games that I used to. (I played heaviest when in highschool which was miserable and during my first marriage, which was hell) I rarely watch TV when alone. Tend to read or tinker, do some hardware hacking or whittling.
These days it’s a good way to spend time with my girl. Finishing up a Supernatural rewatch currently.
But yeah, it’s weird, I just don’t enjoy it the way I used to. Not that I don’t understand why people enjoy gaming so much. I’ve got a badass computer that I don’t think I’ve installed a game on. It’s built for CAD so it’s real beefy.
That, or I’m just becoming an old fart and casual gaming is more my speed.
My girl is high functioning, I’m crazy AF, but typical. When we were in a triad, that partner was high functioning as well. In the BDSM community, autists are so over represented compared to gen pop it’s wild. I don’t know what causes it, it’s probably a field that needs investigated. I tend to get along with autistic folks, always have, I think it’s a compatible communication style, I tend to over define by typical standards. Also, y’all don’t seem to lie much.
I’m a music lover and had music lessons on guitar and sax as a kid. However, I lack musical talent. I’m missing that spark that lets music flow and I can’t improvise or even come up with an original melody or rhythm. I just wasn’t born with it.
My talents are mechanical and artistic. I’m better at sculpture than drawing or painting.
You don’t have to have a reason to make a video game other than you want to. Maybe it makes money, maybe it doesn’t. Completing something you built, you put art and science into it, that’s a powerful thing. Taking an idea and making it real is an addictive thing. (Probably has a lot to do with why I love machining so much.) You should do it. Don’t wait until you’ve moved, no reason you can’t start.
Laying down and don’t have headphones, I’ll have to listen to it tomorrow.
Hope you have a goodnight.