when I was in middle school I racked up over half a YEAR playtime in Minecraft and gave myself carpel tunnel. I only played Minecraft 1.8.9 which was at least 10 versions out of date by that point. I never even made anything I just played on Hypixel.
I did get full superior dragon armor in Hypixel Skyblock by spotting that you could buy a fish for 2 coins but sell it for like 20 coins if you craft it into bait because people are lazy. So I bought and sold millions of fish 2,500 at a time.
I later found that you could just craft dragon armor using shards and sell them on the auction house for about 100k profit and made BANK before other people caught on.
I loved finding those little market loopholes. Sad that nerds eventually caught on and made websites to automate it, and that the game went pay to win. Those were some good times though.
also hot take but dwarvern mines ruined the game. It’s “SKYblock” not “infinite land block”
please play dwarf fortress.
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Man, all y’all playing games people have heard of. Filthy casuals with your “Warframe”, “Runescape”, “Minecraft”, “TF2” and “Diablo”.
I, a true connoisseur, personally spent my childhood sinking over 2000 hours into Final Fantasy Tactics Advance (not to be confused with the far more popular and lauded Final Fantasy Tactics). It’s the only Final Fantasy game I know of that has never been rereleased. The other game of my childhood was over 200 hours in The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap. The first video game I can remember playing was Final Fantasy II.
I llke how you make fun of people for liking mainstream games, and then proceed to list off some of the most mainstream games ever that you so happen to like.
Okay but The Minish Cap is a straight up banger so I’d say it balances out
Oh, absolutely, it’s just generally regarded as among the lower-tiers of the franchise. Those reviewers clearly lack refined taste.
Another third of life goes into the worst sleep too 😅
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But they need to know where the highest point in each level of Bubsy 3D is!
not every weird thing is because autism.
It’s almost like autism is a set of traits that everyone has to a small degree they are simply stronger and highly amplified in people with autism to the point of it greatly affecting their daily lives.
Everyone can spend too much time on a video game, autistic people who have a special interest in video games are way more likely to spend insane hours on the the games they fixate on.
- Not every weird interest is autism
- Not every habit that disrupts your productivity is ADHD
- Wanting things to be tidy / clean / organized is not always OCD
In 2000, mental orders were under discussed. In 2015+, people are obsessed with labeling themselves as some sorta broken.
Statistically most of you guys are just slightly nerdy, lazy, and picky. Not autistic / adhd / OCD.
That’s like going to a UFC match and telling the audience that statistically 51% of them are female. Might be true on a global scale, but where you collect your sample matters.
I bet the demographic on lemmy skew much higher for neurodivergent people than in general population (kind of like how UFC fans skew more male than in general population), and even more so on lemmy.blahaj.zone (you know, because of the statistics on blahajs selected demographic).
Coincidentally, I’m getting way more replies on Lemmy from people who don’t get sarcasm, than on Reddit.
I think you would really thrive in EVE Online, if you’re looking for a different sandbox to pull off this kind of crap in. Your autist and autist-tolerant community awaits.
The game is so complex and nuanced that the learning curve is nigh impossible to overcome by yourself but it also means that the game is full of fun little interactions and opportunities for people to discover and exploit.
A lot of early game poverty, sprawling decision fatigue, and impenetrable mechanical complexity can be mitigated by knowing people, so if you do give it a try, DM me and I can infodump all about my special interest.
LOL I hoped that I would find Eve Online mentioned in the comments.
Hey EYE Devine Cybermancy isn’t just the worst, it’s also the best.
My legs are okay!
Mine was Wurm Online. Loved my community of weirdos there, even the drama.
Me and Fractal Block World for a while. Might get back into it again.
This was me with the Minions game on the Casual Collective. It was basically a flash MOBA game that no one knew about. At least people knew about RuneScape which I admittedly almost got back into last year.
Now that makes me feel old. I played a bunch of minecraft, but abruptly stopped and never went back. When i played the beat gear you could have was diamond armor and diamond sword. The other day i randomly watched. a minecraft video and was like: what’s all this?
I mean… Diamond is still the 2nd best and the newat teir is still fairly new.
Majority of the new stuff they’ve added is just new blocks to build with.
But ypu can enchant stuff? And tgere is a boss at the end.
Oh shit okay yeah if you stopped play waaaaay back before then end was added then I can def see the confusion.
Enchanting and the ender dragon have been in the game for so long that even they are considered fairly ancient features.
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get into dwarf fortress if you can stomach the learning curve. it’s like leaving Plato’s cave, rimworld is the shadows on a wall
They’re both good but the difference is scope, df has a deeper simulation and much bigger scale but rimworld has a lot more character driven stuff.
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I’ve got 8000 hours in rimworld and 11000 in dwarf fortress, and a permanent stream at https://watch.unhelpful.observer/
i love both games to death. i keep both running on my idle machines, I’m breeding thrumbo great grandparents and i don’t use mods I LOVE rimworld and dwarf fortress, and i think that my Plato’s cave comparison holds up better than you think. it’s the use of layers of abstraction that allows rimworld to be more than dwarf fortress and to feel like a real game rather than just a simulation, and it’s the dedication to reality that allows dwarf fortress to go DEEP DEEP DEEP into specificity, get 30 years in on a second fortress and you have 100% chance encountered a crazy situation that nobody can replicate without cheating
it is almost an insult to call these video games, they are so much more important to me than just games, they are more like independent hobbies
my favorite thing about both games is endgame simulation content. when you’ve played 200 years and all that’s left are great-grandchildren/goblins/elves/archotech elites, and rimworld ideoligions allowing you to create entirely untouched sustainable communities that you can just run forever like an ant farm, to me, this is the definitive simulation experience!
I wish I had the time and patience to dedicate myself to a game like that. I’m too easily bored and distracted.
I desperately want to get good at a game called Devil Daggers or it’s sequel Hyper Demon because the WR runs look insane! (links are videos)
I always play for 5 minutes, get frustrated (or confused in Hyper Demon) and give up
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