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 I only played Minecraft 1.8.9 which was at least 10 versions out of date by that point.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”
not every weird thing is because autism.
Of course not, but “restricted, repetitive patterns of behavior, interests, or activities” is one of the key traits of autism observed by non-autistic folks and one of the major criteria/requirements for diagnosis, and playing a specific video game over and over can certainly line up with part of that
Does this make someone autistic, no, but if that person’s seeing this, pretty heavy social communication differences with others, inflexibility with routine, nonverbal communication differences, atypical sensory sensitivity, and all this has been since an early age, they should probably start considering the possibility
the irony is that you can find this comment under any post about autism, which sure seems like a hyperfixation to me.
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.
But this one is
The ADHD people play good games instead
I developed something like ADHD in adulthood, and the only gaming I do is grinding Assetto Corsa and a couple moto sims. Anything with a story gets forgotten halfway through.
or none at all because i have so many and then get caught up thinking about which ones could get played or my backlog or the emulators or the…
fuck it road rash 64 it is
My dumbass was like “I remember playing road rash and road rash 2 on sega, are there seriously 64 of them now??”
…no. It’s for Nintendo 64, lol. I don’t even think fifa has anywhere close to 64 games.
I play them. Finish? We don’t do that here
I have both and spent a decade playing WOW 🤣
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.