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  • isosphere@beehaw.orgtoNeurodivergence@beehaw.orgAbsolutely
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    1 month ago

    My mom threw a massive tantrum at my school when they suggested I might benefit from medication. To be fair, it was a bad school and their specific recommendations were dubious, but something was certainly “up”. My sibling learned they were diagnosed with ADHD in childhood about a year ago, and they’re in their forties now.

    Mental health stigma is really damaging.



  • I’m playing World of Goo, a physics game from 2008 that I bought in a Humble Bundle forever ago.

    I tried it again on a lark and it holds up, I got sucked in. Classic physics game. One level takes me less than 15 minutes to complete, but it varies significantly.

    There are interesting conflicting pressures in the game: you want to build with as little as possible, because the building material are your little dudes you’re trying to get to safety. Gravity exists, and weight distribution matters: sometimes you must harness this fact to win.

    Some levels are about building methodically, carefully choosing where to use the corpse of a sacrificed little dudes, because it is an immutable choice.

    Other levels are about dynamics and timing, and you can get tantalizingly close to saving your entire team in these levels.

    Its old, its cheap, it should run on most things1. Strong recommend.

    1: not android: NetFlix did one of their closed market acquisitions making “free” games here



  • i’ve been too plugged-in to trump news. i’ve banned myself from my primary source of that unhappy chaos, and will get it from a news outlet instead which is much slower and less ragey

    i’ve gotten into audiobooks again, and that has done a lot to lift my spirits. i’ve plowed through the lord of the rings and am now listening to the silmarillion. i’ve found the silmarillion difficult to read, but much more accessible as an audiobook - and it’s giving me a deeper appreciation of the lord of the rings

    eucatastrophe, where art thou?










  • I’m too early in the game to know this well, but I feel the lack of mod support. This feels like a game that would really thrive with community support, but they have no plans on supporting mods or open sourcing it. They are currently working on a new project that they haven’t elaborated on yet.

    Still, I got this game for $14 and if I can find some people to play with I’m absolutely going to get my money’s worth - this kind of game just doesn’t exist with this level of depth. I love the technical detail of how the ship works on and how the systems interact with each other.