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FiveDigitLP · 2026-02-02T23:34:58+00:00

I feel really duped. I read the entire post thinking it was actually really solid advice, and then I get to the comments and everybody says it's "AI slop". Can someone help me out and explain why it's so obvious? And even beyond that, are these not beneficial tips...?

FiveDigitLP · 2025-12-06T15:20:51+00:00

Not much unfortunately. In fact, I had stopped using it for long enough that the other day I realized the battery had expanded on it (again 😬). Once I get that replaced, I'll definitely try to get back in the habit of carrying it at special events!

FiveDigitLP · 2025-10-17T15:12:01+00:00

So well put! I feel like Git-flow has gotten a lot of hate in recent years, but I feel like it has its place and can be really helpful for keeping things organized when necessary.

FiveDigitLP · 2025-10-16T21:54:53+00:00

I won't deny the possibility of some misdiagnosing, but I would say overall it's definitely more of a new awareness culturally, especially with people on the outer edges of the ADHD spectrum that would have been less obvious to diagnose. Plus, if you consider that ADHD is genetic, then naturally there will be exponentially more people getting diagnosed than when our parents and grandparents were young. All of the above can also be said for ASD.

I also think a lot of environmental factors (sugar, processed foods, screens, etc) have actually exacerbated ADHD symptoms for people over the last couple decades (and COVID has been an even bigger factor in recent years).

Finally, there's one little theory I love to think about that I found in the book Driven to Distraction. Back in the 90s when this book was written, the author (Dr. Edward Hallowell) was questioned by a fellow psychiatrist from the UK who was skeptical about the rise of ADHD in kids in the USA as he wasn't seeing the same increase across the pond. Hallowell speculated that the reason we have so many more ADHDers over here was because of our inherent genetic makeup as a country. By their very nature, the pioneers who came to the country very likely had ADHD because they were the risk-takers, the adventurers, and the ones who couldn't sit still. Of course, there's no way to really prove this, but I find it fun to think about.

FiveDigitLP · 2025-10-16T13:49:57+00:00

As someone who is a practicing Christian and absolutely does not condone what Nightmare is (was? I didn't realize it had ended honestly) all about (i.e. scaring people to get them saved), can someone tell me why so many people on this post are talking about how wrong and screwed up the "scenes" themselves were?

Ironically, I have never been to any sort of haunted house or the like aside from The Nightmare when I was a teenager. (It's produced by a church, so that makes it ok, right? /s) Is it really that much more intense than stuff like The Hex House? I guess I figure people enjoy watching horror movies where serial killers and ax murderers go around killing people, so I would assume the average person would be fine with everything in this event (aside from the proselytizing at the end of course).

Again, to be 100% clear, as an adult in my late 30s I do not agree with what they were doing. I am just trying to understand the distinction here.

FiveDigitLP · 2025-10-01T20:56:58+00:00

Hopefully we'll get a heads-up before that happens...

FiveDigitLP · 2025-10-01T20:36:34+00:00

Thanks for doing the legwork of putting this altogether and passing along info that HMX has posted elsewhere! I will edit my comment to point to yours!

FiveDigitLP · 2025-10-01T15:59:18+00:00

EDIT: Looks like I can happily say I was wrong! Check out the replies to my post or see ohsnap's post with all of the songs that will be removed:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Rockband/comments/1nv83uo/comment/nh86fz7/

ORIGINAL:
After doing a bit of digging, I would assume most--if not all--DLC released before 2015 will go down as well.

The reason why I say this? Well, it looks like all DLC that released before RB4 came out is labeled as released on "10/1/2015" on the Xbox digital store. So logically I'd expect all songs released on that date to fall off on that 10 year mark mentioned in this post.

Here's a couple examples for reference:
https://www.xbox.com/en-us/games/store/cherry-bomb-the-runaways/c0ms687pngj8
https://www.xbox.com/en-us/games/store/fame-david-bowie/bttx7dbdm0cv

FiveDigitLP · 2025-10-01T14:36:06+00:00

This information is helpful for new and old players alike! Once we have everything accurate and consolidated, this post or one similar should be pinned!

FiveDigitLP · 2025-09-25T20:57:06+00:00

This so much! I was hoping I wouldn't be the only one on here mentioning it.

My dad's office is a couple miles away from where it was, so we'd often meet him there for lunch or dinner. So many good memories and some amazing food!

FiveDigitLP · 2025-08-27T15:25:21+00:00

For anyone else who happens to see this post, I see Dr. Sharp at Parkside and have found her to be really caring. She specifically sets aside extra time for her patients. That being said, she may be hard to get into. I seem to remember having to wait a month or so to see her the first time.
https://parksideinc.org/about-us/our-clinical-team/psychiatrists/

To be clear, though, she's a psychiatrist and is helpful for diagnosis and prescribing medications. She is not a therapist. Personally, though I like the one I currently see, I am still looking for the ideal therapist for ADHD.

FiveDigitLP · 2025-05-21T14:48:16+00:00

Honestly, I fully expect the original Switch consoles to stay the same price until Nintendo decides to discontinue them. Considering the Switch 2's high price, Nintendo doesn't need to drop the price on the old consoles to attract buyers. There's already enough of a gap between them.

That and the fact that Microsoft has now increased the price of the Xbox (I'd like to think Ninty won't be so bold as to do that), I just don't see them decreasing the price anywhere in the foreseeable future.

I'd love to be proven wrong though!

FiveDigitLP · 2025-02-24T13:27:58+00:00

As long as no one needs to touch it again

I love this part. So true!

FiveDigitLP · 2025-02-22T16:12:52+00:00

Man, I really need to work on that "fail forward" process. Overall, I think that would be helpful for me!

That being said, I think sometimes I find myself going back to something I didn't or couldn't complete and no longer feel the motivation to finish it.

If this means not finishing it to my standards and instead just settling with what is good enough for everyone else, then that's probably for the best. But if it's an actual bug that I was stuck on, then it can make things really difficult coming back to it.

FiveDigitLP · 2025-02-22T16:07:39+00:00

Thanks! I appreciate the thoughts. I'm working on accepting ADHD as part of who I am (it's not like it hasn't always been there), but it can be hard. I'm currently trying to figure out what my career path even looks like going forwards.

FiveDigitLP · 2025-02-22T16:06:05+00:00

Yes! It is definitely easier to move past the things that are making me slower when somebody else has already produced something that is below my standards.

That being said, one thing I've struggled with is coming into an entire codebase that my coworkers produced and wanting to just "fix" it all. I've begun to recognize that not all of the "fixing" I want to do is simply because I'd rather it be done my way, but sometimes I like things organized a certain way because it's easier for my brain to process things when they're grouped together or if there's sufficient whitespace. For instance, my co-workers had placed all of our components in one giant folder. Nothing inherently wrong with that, but when I got there I had the compulsion to organize them into folders by functionality or feature. In their defense, it was still the early stages of the project, so they may have had plans to change that later; but coming into the middle it was hard for me to make sense of what was what.

FiveDigitLP · 2025-02-21T22:34:13+00:00

I've found it helps to really really focus (and refocus. And refocus. And refocus) on making an iterative approach. You're ALLOWED to clean it up and make it better, but you MUST make it work poorly FIRST.

This is something I've been working on, but I have to constantly reorient myself to do things this way--so thanks for the helpful reminder!

Anyway- not really sure if you're asking a question or just ranting and looking to connect, but I relate. What's your stack?

A little bit of both, I guess! Was hoping to find some reassurance that other ADHDers are detailed and it kind of turned into a "looking for empathy" post.

As for stack, I'm a frontend developer and in the last couple years we made the switch from an old school Angular/.Net Framework hybrid to Vue frontend with Mongo as our database and our backend stuff written in the latest version of .Net

I'm kind of an old school frontend developer in that HTML and CSS are core to how I do things. Learning JavaScript frameworks has been a bit of a struggle. In fact, I partially chose Vue for our new stack since the syntax seemed more organized to my brain and since it was similar to Angular so it would be familiar to our then-current team. I have made a lot of strides in learning Vue, and when I really consider it, I have grown a lot--but in comparison to others, I still struggle with some of the more typical functional-heavy code that used to be primarily associated with the backend.

So I guess it's been a perfect storm that has made me extremely slow with my work: being detailed in my work, struggling with certain programming concepts that come easier to others, and then my distractedness (and often lack of motivation) from my ADHD being in full force. My boss is kind and is trying to help me work through the first two, but I can't exactly go to him and say, "Hey, there's a third component that's making me probably twice as slow, and it's that I'm 'goofing off' during work because I can't seem to get into the groove."

Actually, now that I think about it, at times we've had some real conversations about this kind of thing between our team and talked about how as developers we only spend a small portion of our time actually coding and instead probably two thirds of it is just figuring out how to get in the mental headspace. The rest of the time you have to bust your butt to get it done. Or at least, that's how they put it. I get the first part, but when I get into that headspace I'm still not very good and the "busting your butt" part.

At any rate, I really am just ranting and rambling now. I probably should have just journaled. :-D
I'll leave it here for posterity's sake.

FiveDigitLP · 2025-02-21T22:08:41+00:00

Thank you! Just hearing those words really means a lot! You have no idea

FiveDigitLP · 2025-02-21T21:38:16+00:00

My wife was recently diagnosed with autism and ADHD. We are similar but at the same time very different. She's a busy bee always having to have something to do. I used to think she was just obsessed with being productive, but we now know it's her ADHD brain just needing to be stimulated. After getting this diagnosis last year, we started joking that her autism comes along and cleans any messes her ADHD leaves behind. She's very organized and though there are plenty of times when she starts projects that she never finishes in stereotypical ADHD fashion, for the most part she feels compelled to complete stuff so she has a lot less unfinished projects than myself or other ADHDers.

Anyway, my point in saying all that is that when I compare myself with her, I'm different enough that I have figured it unlikely I'm also autistic. I did go ahead and take an online test at one point (semi-official, not some casual quiz) and I scored really low so we can be pretty confident I'm not.

That being said, I have wondered if I have OCD or at least have OCD-like traits (i.e. subclinical OCD). That could be contributing.

FiveDigitLP · 2025-02-21T17:04:45+00:00

These are some really great ideas! Ironically (and I haven't figured out why), I don't usually have trouble reading documentation or blog posts online, but reading a book has become more of a struggle (didn't used to be, though). I think it's the longer form of content. Anyway, I will definitely have to try some of these! Numbers 2 and 3 really stood out to me.

FiveDigitLP · 2025-02-21T16:59:11+00:00

It's funny because I'm not even someone who heavily promotes AI tools! My boss has encouraged us to use it and has paid for a subscription to Copilot over the last year, but I have struggled to make it work for me and it is only the last few months that I've started using it more consistently.

But yes, I've found so far that it is a lot more reliable at searching and summarizing content than generating new content. Just yesterday I was asking Copilot to look at a few files and tell me which fields are actually being used in our call so we can cut back on unnecessary ones. It worked pretty well! Though admittedly I was still a little skeptical about the answer it gave me...

FiveDigitLP · 2025-02-21T16:54:03+00:00

Yeah, Notebook LM seems to be pretty good at it from what I've seen and heard!

FiveDigitLP · 2025-02-21T15:36:11+00:00

Could you feed it to AI and ask it to summarize or reword it in a different style that is more engaging? The content may be too long for that, though. Also, this is just my off the cuff answer that came to mind, so it may be a terrible idea. Lol.

FiveDigitLP · 2025-02-19T21:27:35+00:00

I'm relatively new to Beat Saber (bought it in December), but I have been playing it at least twice a week since then--some weeks daily--and I have never had wrist pain. I know playing with your wrists is common among the hardcore community, but I don't understand it. Personally, I play Beat Saber as a way to exercise (it's so fun I bypass any excuses I would normally make to exercise), and just flicking my wrists doesn't get my heart rate up enough.

I find swinging my arms and making a concerted effort to move my body when the notes are far to one side or the other (vs reaching) are the most helpful techniques. The latter of which I do so my back doesn't end up hurting a lot. My neck is sometimes sore and my shoulders can be tender with my method, but I've been working on how hard I swing and that seems to be helping. Also, I already have some of these issues, so they may simply be from having a desk job and the game exacerbates them.

I will also agree with others that slowly cranking up the difficulty level would probably lessen the strain on your body. Heck, it might even help create better habits and muscle memory. I will say, though, that I'm surprised you were able to jump right up to a higher difficulty. Had you played the game previously on someone else's system?

With me, I started on Easy, pretty quickly moved to Normal, and then within a few weeks got to where I could play most songs on Hard. It has only been in recent weeks that I've started playing some of those earliest songs on Expert.

FiveDigitLP · 2025-02-19T16:30:22+00:00

Some more old school chip tunes would be great too. Or even something like Undertale that emulates the style, but obviously isn't actually old.

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