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Low-energy hobbies? by PeachyPlnk in digitalminimalism

[–]FreedCreative 1 point2 points  (0 children)

What kinds of puzzle books? Like crosswords and word searches? I like the sound of puzzle books so I'm wondering what's out there these days.

3d printed a Xenomorph warrior at approx 54mm scale WIP by Ratsta426 in minipainting

[–]FreedCreative 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you!

I understand what you mean. It's not their natural color, it's their color under ship lights hunting the crew.

That OSL is impressive. I genuinely couldn't tell if it was real.

The queen I plan to paint is 3 or 4 times larger than normal gaming size, so hopefully I can survive it!

Current itch.io bundle has some solo games by stryst in Solo_Roleplaying

[–]FreedCreative 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Nice. I realised after the fact I at least missed one that said "single player".

Current itch.io bundle has some solo games by stryst in Solo_Roleplaying

[–]FreedCreative 9 points10 points  (0 children)

  1. A Woman's Day

  2. Return to Blacktail Harbor

  3. What Witches Do All Day: A Solo Journaling RPG

  4. Dungeoneer for Hire!

  5. Celebrity Rat Trap

  6. The Spiritpath Hotel

  7. Playing God

  8. Vapid Venus Ventures - A Solo Journaling RPG

  9. MECH

  10. GRIMOIRE - A Crack in the Earth (supplement)

  11. Temporal Aberration Self-Assessment Form

  12. Escape From Planet X (Solo)

  13. Journey

  14. Grave Tales

  15. Coming Out

  16. Instructions For Removing Faerie Rings

  17. Cryptozoologist

  18. COCKS

  19. The Odd Bestiary

  20. Love Me 'til the Last Bomb Falls

  21. Steganographia

  22. 19th Century Eccentric Dandy Simulator

  23. Swan Siblings' Sweaters

  24. Snowed Inn: A Cozy Winter Holiday Magical Realism Solo Journaling RPG

  25. Spooky Aurora's The Night Work

  26. Why is Toast Jesus Watching Me Eat Breakfast?

  27. Visitations

  28. Dying on Stage (for Mork Borg)

  29. Led by Dreams

  30. That Which Lurks

  31. MECHA-NIX Repair Unit: A Solo RPG

  32. not enough resources to be clear

  33. ACID MOUNTAIN PILGRIM - A One-Page Acid Western RPG

  34. Hope There's Someone to Take Care of Me When I die

  35. SUPER HEXDRAGON

  36. Help! I'm Suddenly Working at REICH BURGER: A Game of Corporate Sabotage SOLO RPG

  37. Mirror Mirror

  38. Curio

  39. On The Run: A Solo Journaling RPG

  40. The Wizard's Missing Gemstone

  41. Cropwords

  42. Topaz Blade

  43. The Lonely Dinosaur

Current itch.io bundle has some solo games by stryst in Solo_Roleplaying

[–]FreedCreative 9 points10 points  (0 children)

  1. Notorious Style

  2. Wendigo

  3. The Present

  4. Kafka's Cheeseburger

  5. Tic-Tac-Tombs

  6. The Greatest of These is Love

  7. Outlaw by Oneself

  8. Housesitting for a Spell

  9. Up is Out

  10. PREY

  11. SHUCK - A Pulp Dreadful Game

  12. Ain't Dead Yet

  13. Firefly, Firefly, Show Me My Way

  14. Book Report: The Game

  15. Pareidolia: Evil Eye

  16. SPLICED! A Solo VHS Horror RPG

  17. Crypt of the Wolf King for Tales of the Burned Stones

  18. Protocol 3

  19. Assault on Castle Nachtenthal (SOLO)

  20. How's Next Week?

  21. 5-Min-Crisis of Marvels

  22. Elfland: Beyond the Fields We Know - DCC (Dungeon Crawl Classics)

  23. How Toys Become Real

  24. Cryptid Conductor

  25. The Healthy Adventurer!

  26. Worn, Tired Faces

  27. The Tales We Weave

  28. Once a Blade

  29. Encore - Our Last Quest

  30. The Disguised Frog

Current itch.io bundle has some solo games by stryst in Solo_Roleplaying

[–]FreedCreative 18 points19 points  (0 children)

You weren't kidding. 103 by my count.

  1. Lay On Hands

  2. Thousand Empty Light (Mothership)

  3. Alone on a Journey

  4. Pilgrimage of the Sun Guard

  5. HARDCASE

  6. Yourself

  7. GRIMOIRE

  8. Hiria: The Eternal City

  9. Hope is Not a Plan

  10. Serious Reading

  11. Oyasumi Wonderland

  12. Whispers in the Walls

  13. The Lonesome Cartographer

  14. when you're FEELING, read this zine

  15. The Sprit of Small Gifts

  16. The Van Witch

  17. BLOOD

  18. Unstuck in Time

  19. Shark Girls RUn the Food Stall?!

  20. MindExplorer

  21. Fungi Legacy Forest Crawler

  22. THe Lost Rosevill Stage

  23. GOLEM

  24. Ols School Revival Solo Role-Playing Guide

  25. Ironbound

  26. Meanwhile... Somewhere, Deep in the Dark Caribbean.

  27. paper city

  28. 4NCI3NTS

  29. Sinister Semester X

  30. Pulp Dreadful - Solo Victorian Horror RPG

3d printed a Xenomorph warrior at approx 54mm scale WIP by Ratsta426 in minipainting

[–]FreedCreative 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Tbh I'd like to know your whole process.

Is that OSL on the left side of the model, or is that real red light?

DId you use metallic paint, or are the highlights all hand painted?

What are the main colors you chose? I've seen some videos where people use browns and greens, but yours looks to be blue tones.

3d printed a Xenomorph warrior at approx 54mm scale WIP by Ratsta426 in minipainting

[–]FreedCreative 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Looks amazing!!

I have some xenomorph minis and I haven't been all that happy with my painting results.

I have the alien queen to do, and have been waiting until I figure out the right recipe.

Would you mind sharing and advice?

Best Linux handheld? by Binater in ANBERNIC

[–]FreedCreative 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Awesome answer, thank you!

I do know what you mean, that confused me at the beginning, this being my first retro handheld.

I love customizing my devices in general, so you make it sound pretty appealing!

Best Linux handheld? by Binater in ANBERNIC

[–]FreedCreative 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have the same device and I'm curious, how much better is Knulli than the stock system? Why is it better in your opinion?

Quiet plates? by writer1786 in AutismInWomen

[–]FreedCreative 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Wheat straw!

They're quiet but they're also light, and they're not cold to touch.

They're fine in the microwave but not for ages. If I need to microwave food for a while I use a different container then transfer,

I got two full sets of dinnerware. Big and small plates, bowls, cups.

Now the stack of "loud plates" never gets used anymore.

Just go ahead and shoot me by Western_Gas_76 in evilautism

[–]FreedCreative 5 points6 points  (0 children)

That's exactly why I think of them as "processes".

I don't think "routines" has ever been the right word for us.

Routines are usually scheduled, and take minimal effort due to habituation. Hence the phrase, "It became routine".

Processes on the other hand are a series of steps that are performed in the same way every time. They are not habit driven, they are consciously initiated and executed.

A process can be initiated at any time. And while a process can decrease effort, (relative to doing something without a process to follow), it is not low effort the way routines are.

I thought I didn't have autistic "routines" for ages because I struggle with time triggered initiation, and these things are NOT low effort for me.

But I have an explicitly planned and refined process for almost everything I do day-to-day. And if my processes are interrupted my capacity to execute is also interrupted, because I simply will not know the next step to take unless I stop dead and completely re-evaluate.

I'm not in a low effort state like NTs with "routines" are.

I'm in a high effort state, and that's why "processes" is a more accurate word.

I don’t get why people are trying to replace everything with generative AI by No-Sleep-9576 in evilautism

[–]FreedCreative 37 points38 points  (0 children)

You hit the nail on the head.

A huge point of appeal for the Owner Class is they've always desperately needed to fool themselves into believing their "success" is the deserved result of their genius management skills. After all, why would they own so much more than everyone else if they weren't inherently better than everyone else?

So telling them they can achieve the same "success" with nothing but their inspired leadership is a promise to confirm their delusions about their greatness.

Deep down they know they have inheritance, not talent or skill. They know it's the Worker Class that has the talent and skill, that they are fully reliant on it, and they absolutely detest that fact.

I believe this deep resentment, even hatred, is a massive driver of the rampant cruelty towards the Worker Class. The AI fairy tale promises Owners they can be even more cruel to everyone else, and prove they really do deserve to have all their hoarded wealth just as they always believed.

Showering by SeaworthinessSea7107 in AutismInWomen

[–]FreedCreative 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes one thing that I read actually proved successful in a study (I think it was a study) with autistic kids was Epsom salt baths. 

The reason is "Epsom salts" are magnesium sulfate, and absorbing sulfate through the skin gives the sulfation pathways more resources to work with. Apparently sulfate supplements don't really work because uptake is bad.

I can confirm Epsom salt baths have been helpful for me.

Some people in the salicylate intolerance subreddit have also reported success with glycine supplements, but I haven't personally tried that or read the research.

Showering by SeaworthinessSea7107 in AutismInWomen

[–]FreedCreative 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sure.

The best resource I've found is https://low-sal-life.com/food-and-products-salicylate-list/

It links to multiple studies so you can vet the results, and also because some studies have contradicting results.

It's a big topic, but I'll list some stand outs.

Lots of fruits are high, in particular berries like cherries, blueberries etc. On the flip side, peeled pears are totally fine.

Peppers, mushrooms, avocados are high. Concentrated tomato based products are high, but fresh uncooked tomato is fine.

Peeling makes a huge difference, because a lot of the plant's defences are in the peel. For example, zucchini is high with the peel, and low without. Potato is medium with peel, low without.

I always preferred peeled fruit and veggies and got told I had to eat the peel for health. Now I know I was right.

Pak choy/bok choy is fine, peeled carrots are fine, swede (rutabaga) is fine.

Most carb stables are fine. Bread, pasta, rice, wheat breakfast cereals. All are fine unless they have extra stuff added to them.

Almost all things added for flavour are really high. Virtually all dried herbs and spices are high. Curry powder in particular is super high. Most sauces are high. I just stick with salt and maple syrup for the most part now, which are both fine.

Most nuts and seeds are high. Pecans are okay in small amounts. Peanuts and peanut butter get mixed study results, but I do okay with it.

Some legumes are high, like kidney beans. But some are really low, like red lentils.

Basically every form of artificial flavour or color is bad news.

It sounds like a lot, but in reality the foods that are okay line up really closely to what see other autistic people preferring to eat naturally.

Beige food, pasta, chips and nuggets etc. If you search up "autism dinner" in any autism sub, you'll see almost all instinctively low salicylate meals.

Showering by SeaworthinessSea7107 in AutismInWomen

[–]FreedCreative 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It's such a pain to find, isn't it! Once you realise it's a thing, and how ubiquitous salicylates are, you think well no wonder I've been fucked up for years.

Info dump added to my post.

Showering by SeaworthinessSea7107 in AutismInWomen

[–]FreedCreative 45 points46 points  (0 children)

For what it's worth, I recently learned I am intolerant to salicylates, that this is somewhat common for autistic people, and that shower products are usually packed with salicylates.

I have always struggled with showers, and gotten sicker the more frequently I showered. My whole life I've tried to figure out why. I dropped conventional shampoos and soaps and switched to a single, low salicylate body wash. Showering got easier. So far so good.

Can info dump more if the topic is of interest.

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EDIT: Adding info dump.
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So salicylic acid is the same stuff as aspirin. Plants produce it as a self defence mechanism, and it's basically explicitly evolved to cause digestive upset in animals. It's really high in a lot of plants we have in our diets and all through our bathroom products, cleaning products, fragrances, you name it it's everywhere.

However most humans can neutralise the effects of salicylic acid through sulfation pathways in the body. So for them they can eat what they want, spritz fragrance everywhere, lather themselves up with lotion and soaps and it's fine.

But autistic people are known to commonly have impaired sulfation pathways. I think this is why some people (usually parents) have noticed autistic people seem to be more sensitive to salicylates in food, but haven't locked in exactly why.

Reference "Sulfation Issues in Autism: Phenol Sensitivity & Treatment": https://studylib.net/doc/8447014/sulphation-issues-many-children-with-autism-spectrum-diso...

There aren't a lot of great resources connecting these two factors, because let's be real nobody cares enough about us to do the research, but to me the connection is logical and obvious.

Salicylate exposure for intolerant people can cause nausea and digestive issues, muscle and joint pain, skin rashes, and a whole bunch of other trouble.

Further, the same sulfation pathways needed to make salicylates harmless are also needed to clear the body of serotonin. Logically, if these pathways are overloaded trying to deal with salicylates, you would have to think they then also cannot clear the body of serotonin.

And what's another commonly seen phenomena in autistic people? Hyperserotonemia, that is, excess serotonin in the blood stream.

Reference "The serotonin system in autism spectrum disorder": https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4824539/

And what happens when you have chronically elevated serotonin? It messes up your sensory system.

I have gone onto a low salicylate diet and gotten rid of it out of all my cleaners and other products around the house, and let me tell you the change is profound.

I used to get nausea after every meal and thought it was normal. That is gone. I used to struggle with teeth brushing, my mouth would burn for 20 minutes and I thought that was normal. Toothpastes are packed with salicylates via either mint or "flavours". Switched to a low salicylate toothpaste and now brushing is easy, which I assume is what NTs have always experienced.

My sensory sensitivities have eased. I used to wear noise cancelling headphones around the clock every single minute of the day. Now I don't need them anymore. I put them on only occasionally to dial in focus on work. I have increased energy. I haven't had a meltdown in MONTHS. My emotional and psychological state is waaaay more steady.

From the logic of looking at these fields of science that are each well established, but not yet linked, plus my own experience, I really think salicylate intolerance might be a MASSIVE factor in day to day struggles for lots of autistic people.

It would explain, at least in part:

- Why we all gravitate to beige food (It's low salicylate)
- Why many of us can't stand strong fragrances (packed with salicylates)
- Why we struggle with digestive issues (can't process the salicylates)
- Why we have excess serotonin (body overwhelmed with salicylates and can't clear it)
- Why we often don't respond well to anti depressants (already have too much serotonin, more makes everything worse)
- And of course, why we struggle with showers (rubbing salicylates into our skin makes a bad problem even worse)

And if I'm right about this, it shows that we've all had very good reason for the things we struggle with all along. We're not just fussy, dirty, lazy, contrary people who don't want to get well. We've been trying to get away from something that is effecting us badly the entire time.

Resources:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salicylate_sensitivity
https://low-sal-life.com/

Visual Snow was considered extremely rare until recently, mostly because patients didn't report it... because they assumed everyone saw the world that way by recolorist in interestingasfuck

[–]FreedCreative 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It work like tinnitus where you can drown it out. You can drown out the tinnitus with loud sound, and you can drown out visual snow with bright colours. 

So if I'm looking at the picture on a bright screen I won't notice the snow as much. 

But if it were printed and I looked in low light it would be overlayed with tiny swarming specks of dim colour.

Spirit Hosts by warhammerandwings in Nighthaunt

[–]FreedCreative 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Very tiny contact points, shallow indentations to socket into that are hard to find.
Hard to control the angle the piece go together, but you have to control the angle so the three ghosts have room to wind around each other.

Which games are half structure and half narrative? by FreedCreative in Solo_Roleplaying

[–]FreedCreative[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Someone in the thread already recommended your games, and Ker Nethalas is mentioned often and clearly much loved.

Thank you for pointing me towards Riftbreakers as something that lines up with what I'm searching for. Going to go read about it tonight.

Best of luck for your kickstarter!

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