adhd status: might end up diving deeper into talking about 'good distractions' in the update with a focus on rain sounds and why - for me at least - it has such a good batting average in keeping the brain busy while you work
there's a lot of stuff in the adhd twine i'm proud of but i think "good distractions" is one of the best succinct ways i've come across for the ways my brain works around things. there are distractions that help you work, and distractions that derail work
w/r/t my adhd it's like
rain noises, tv show you've watched a million times so you don't have to think about it, song on a loop: good distraction
instant feedback stuff that requires active focus and input, like twitter, gacha games, etc: bad distraction
you want your brain to be occupied *just enough*. too much and it slips from 'passive occupation' to 'active occupation'
i legit don't play gacha games and it's not because of gambling worries: it's because 'the numbers keep going up' factor occupies my focus too much. it's instant feedback in a way that is a bullseye for my adhd and is hard to pull away from
when you think of your adhd and think of things that do manage to grab your focus and *hold it*, and wonder why that is, i say look for the 'instant feedback' factor. do your actions have a direct, even immediate, result, shown back to you as soon as you engage?
if what you're doing has a result very, very quickly after putting in your input, that can hook the focus of people with adhd fast. you can even use this knowledge for positive ends, and to also be aware of when it'll negatively impact you.
so things like numbers going up, bars filling up, quantified and visible data directly and quickly reacting to our actions, that tends to put whatever is trying to grab our focus and give it a turbo boost.
but, again - this can actually be used positively!
for the twine update i'm adding a section about writing with adhd and what tools i use and a big thing here is employing this knowledge positively. i really started honing into it when i found scrivener's project target tool, which changes how wordcounts can be displayed.
when, instead of checking wordcount obsessively and going 'how much did i write since last time', and being pleased or more frequently disappointed with the answer, the project target tool makes it into a bar that fills as i write, so i get the 'instant feedback' focus boost.
this helps turn a lot of the work of writing from something more ethereal and hard to gauge progress and achievement in to something that makes me feel like i'm really moving ahead and amplifies focus because "the numbers keep going up".
while not as potent as the scrivener tool in my experience, using 'show wordcount as you write' in google docs can produce a similar effect.
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hey if you're planning to do spooky projects for halloween - stories, games, comics, albums, w/e - and want/need some photos for inspiration, reference, direct use, i got your back on the cheap cheap cheap
the photos have been used in 2mello's Atmospheric Horror Music volume 2, the IF game SNACK RUN BLOWOUT, j. kyle pittman's The Dearheart EP and more, if you're looking for practical examples of the photos (and great shit to listen to and read)
why do the richest people in the world think $1400 is a significant amount of money. i do not get it
like it's one thing that they don't know how much a box of hot pockets costs, but it's $1400 dollars. they know their wealth. they know how little $1400 is. why do they act like it's a big gift
rules to think about how much senior democratic leadership definitely cares about fighting back against restrictions on abortion and will for sure make this a priority
part of it is of course their obsession with picking up suburban well to do 'moderates' but i think a lot of dem elected disconnect on this issue is bc whatever happens, if someone in their family needs an abortion, they have the money+connections to circumvent restrictions
whatever the law is for you is not the law for them, so it's a big 'fuck it'. plus they can use this as part of another big fundraising drive and sending you a million emails begging for money while not doing anything
also, while mostly just relevant to the field of comics and how comics as an industry and group of people don't really give a shit about islamophobia, holy terror
holy terror sticks with me for lots of reasons, not least of which is because comics has tried to use it as an example of them doing good ("see, we didn't let frank publish it at dc") while still letting miller back for more high profile projects...
seeing more replies to my climate thread that blew up and consistently getting struck by
1. people having no theory of power and
2. a weird kind of unspoken american exceptionalism that believes in this country we can solve everything The Right And Polite Way, unlike others
people suggesting nuclear and carbon taxes and all sorts of things and missing the point that comes before that: how the fuck do you get power to actually listen to and follow through on those ideas. like let's say you've got the Perfect Idea.
so what?
there's nothing that says people of power - billionaires, politicians - have to listen to. like nuclear - putting aside all debates on whether nuclear is safe and all that aside, let's say we discover a Completely Safe Nuclear. okay. now how do you get politicians to care?
me: someday i think i'd wanna do a streaming thing to raise money for people but also i don't know what games could get me through the anxiety i'd have over such a thing
brain: marathon of rpgmaker titles all using stock resources
me: [standing up so fast i get lightheaded]
tbf tho there are also a lot of rpg maker games of various quality without stock resources i'd wanna go through. like Sweet Lily Dreams, which has an 00s passion project fantasy webcomic vibe to it that i genuinely love
there's also a bunch of "does not have and will probably never get an english release" ones i'm curious about. Tian Hong Bookstore, Yokai Mask, パトルの軍事博物館3 超絶無敵究極兵器, and The Prototype, for example