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 I only played Minecraft 1.8.9 which was at least 10 versions out of date by that point.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”

  • NotAnOtter@lemmus.orgEnglish
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    2 days ago
    • 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.

    • kindnesskills@literature.cafeEnglish
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      2 days ago

      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).