You could get into Dragon Quest games, if you want old school JRPGs. Complexity might be a bit lacking given the era, but doing the old NES ones without a guide is excruciatingly difficult and you can lump on RetroAchevements to add more pain. RA generally adds additional challenges to any older game so you have to play a little min maxing to accomplish them.

I mostly thought of it since RA is beta testing multi sets with DQ9 and getting every accolade might be one of the most insane things I could ever suggest.

Well, I’ll settle for basic computer literacy as I still run into college students without a working knowledge of file systems… buuuut one would argue it’s worth covering the basic building blocks of how all this works.

I’ve heard similar arguments for teaching people the fundamentals of how data works too, as we have data harvested from us at alarming rates and knowledge is power.

Ugh.

At least Arial exists. And Helvetica. But Times New Roman? What is this, English class in the early aughts? 12pt font, double spaced with one inch margins?

Hell, if you want wanna make America great again make it Courier; tech bros’ll think you’re coding but we know you really just want to take us back to late 1800s when typewriters and bad economic policy were in. Or maybe something appropriate for this administration, like Wingdings.

Last three were Star Ocean (the first one), Radiata Stories, and Skies of Arcadia.

Currently playing Alundra because a friend grew up with it and wanted me to play it. Honestly it’s not great but RetroAchevements made the bosses extraordinarily painful to master, which is uh … fun. Yes. Fun, let’s go with that.

Oh and ps these commenters all have fantastic tastes.

I mean, sure. Fuck malthusians.

Social dilemma theories (e.g. totc, prisoners dilemma, etc) are kind of neutral, though, and it’s one of the easiest ways to argue in favor of climate change regulation. As in, people make choices between selfish and cooperative choices. Some are more inclined for one or the other, but regulation can help curb the selfish oriented people.

In my social psych class I get to share research that literally says conservatives and people who prefer authoritarianism prefer competitive choices (as well as other factors). It’s basically a field devoted to figuring out what causes people who ruin everything for everyone else, lol.

Mods make it easy, mods make it hard.

I personally am the over prepared type but that’s why I get mods that extend the end game and put me through my own optimization and automation personal hell that causes everyone around me to question why I’ve never seen a therapist for my clearly neurodivergent behavior.

Y’know, expert Minecraft mods.

Hell yeah.

Oh, I was so into UT but not for the reason everyone else was in middle school. I loved level editing and I made stages for friends. UT editor was subtractive and it was more intuitive, plus I had oodles of graph paper to plan out levels during class time when I was supposed to be paying attention.

Just work the mines a few more hours and earn those 15 minute time credits. Ain’t my fault Elonotron and his sex bots run on coal power.

Actually, even if you go national, very few people like our system (something like 20% iirc?). And in NY? Fat chance.

You’ve got Citizens United, so both parties are pretty much in the pockets of insurance. They’ll just ignore that desire until more Luigis show up.

You telling me those images of Trump swimming through flood waters to save people in a hurricane haven’t already swayed voters? Lol

Sure enough the vast majority are Republican shithole states, although Virginia and Arizona are a surprise.

It’s not that it’s immortal to want IDs for porn (although GOP generally is immortal), it’s just so… technologically stupid. The red states are stupid states.

Was thinking of trying Cachy cause of Lemmy talking about it, glad you see it higher than what I previously used (Manjaro).

I knew a guy who made his company team building event paintball, which I think is kinda cool if they were sensitive about it, except he was one of those “alpha male” types which inherently made it uncool.

I think my step dad had it sweet though, way back when, their team building was FPS lan parties during work hours. Totally permitted, stuff like Unreal Tournament and the like, but probably not mandatory though everyone participated including people on the spectrum (though unsure if they were formally diagnosed back then).

I recently did Samurai Warriors with a friend and that was a blast. Kind of a golden era for musou games. SW2 and Dynasty Warriors 5 and 6 all solid.

I also enjoyed Gauntlet and the Metal Slug ports. I think that was PS2, at least.

Of these I only really played D as a preteen (when it hit 3DO) and that was creepy enough for me although my neighbor/crush liked to come to my place to play it so that’s mostly how I got to know it.

I was more into RTS and RPGs at that age, though, and frankly I found games like Eye of the Beholder 2 scary enough (plus I learned to never trust blue eyed blonde folk; they’ll fucking kill you).

I was checking this year and most of the things I want from a few years ago are still at 50%. But I don’t have enough time to play everything so I won’t likely pirate new stuff even though I very much know how to do so safely.

Hell, new games aren’t even competing with just each other- I’ve had a blast playing a lot of PS2 and PSP this year. When you don’t give in to hype and peer pressure, you’ve got near limitless options for entertainment.

I’m so glad my mobo died last year so I got new one with new DDR5 ram before this happened. It’s like a good example for bad things not always being so bad after all.

Fuckin’ rad.

I was just a tiny bit too young to get into it properly, as my brother and I would turn off enemies and just explore the world in that game (I loved vents and secret door). Instead, I got heavily into its level maker.

I was 9. Lol

Nice, earlier this year I wanted to to likewise but with Professor Oak challenges, which is get every Pokemon as early in progression we possible. I did it on Blue but it was quite miserable grinding lvl 36 Blastoise fighting only lvl 6 stuff prior to the first badge.

Suffice to say I took a break after that, but I’ll hit Silver next. Fast forward on emulation was a godsend, as well as achievement tracking for keeping track of how many more I had to grab before the next badge (it got really weird because you can skip Lt Surge and just keep going without the HM lol)

I’m… I’m not sure that’s really ADHD’s fault lol. I don’t think anyone can or should be able to remember more than 10 contestants on any reality show, really. They aren’t that important or memorable, lol