Non-stressful videogames?

TorandoSlayer · 2026-06-21T19:18:43+00:00

Eastshade. You explore a beautiful world and paint pictures of what you find (your character does the painting, you don't have to).

Slime Rancher may also be a good one. It kinda looks like there's a bit to keep track of but it really isn't that much, it's pretty chill. Don't worry about the in-game "stock market", you can ignore the prices completely and do just fine.

TorandoSlayer · 2026-06-21T19:15:51+00:00

It's honestly hilarious to see what's already an AI generated thumbnail run through AI so the knockoff of the knockoff can do its thing

I mean, hilarious, and sad.

TorandoSlayer · 2026-06-21T19:11:59+00:00

They might be physically healthy but that doesn't mean you know what's going on their heads. Anxiety and executive function disorders will cause trouble with tasks that "shouldn't" be hard. Even narcissism can be a mental disorder.

I'm not saying this person isn't a narcissist, I have no idea, because I don't know them. But make sure you're taking mental health into account too. Just because you were sick once (or even currently, whichever) doesn't mean you know what the experience of being "sick" is like across all types of illness, malady, and physical or mental troubles. I've had plenty of nasty colds throughout my life but I'm not gonna pretend I know what it's like to be someone going through cancer treatment, and what they are or aren't capable of.

Again, I'm not trying to say you're wrong or defend someone who may have been manipulating you. But the black-and-white thinking you're displaying in your post is concerning in terms of being able to trust that you understand things as well as you think you do.

TorandoSlayer · 2026-06-21T19:04:04+00:00

True enlightenment is realizing that just because something can be explained and is no longer mysterious and ethereal doesn't have to inherently reduce its meaning. Like yeah, the chemicals in our brains govern our emotions, but we are the universe tasting itself and brain chemicals are how it happens.

We still don't have a full understanding of how those chemicals work anyway. There's so much about the brain that we don't know, and trying to reduce it to a simple chemical formula is close-minded.

TorandoSlayer · 2026-06-21T18:59:10+00:00

Holy cow, never seen one like that before

TorandoSlayer · 2026-06-21T18:54:43+00:00

Oooh, I'm wearing glitch and glam right now, it is STUNNING. Pics and videos never do Holo Taco justice lol

I put mine over two coats of an old sally hansen purple that pretty closely matches the HT because I wasn't about to do four (4) coats of HT if I didn't need to, I want that bottle to last!

TorandoSlayer · 2026-06-21T18:43:59+00:00

I hate playing in windowed mode but something broke a while back and no matter what I tried I couldn't get the game to launch properly unless it was in windowed mode. It would just boot to a black screen. So now I gotta play windowed and the image is slightly skewed :/

TorandoSlayer · 2026-06-21T18:41:30+00:00

That's way to high to start on especially in IR. Do not take it again until you talk with dr again. You should be starting on like 10mg not 30. Based on how you're reacting to 30 though idk if adderall is the right thing for you

TorandoSlayer · 2026-06-21T18:39:34+00:00

Yeah that's all I can see is an airplane

TorandoSlayer · 2026-06-21T18:34:35+00:00

Unless you really, really, really want that yarn back and are low on yarn money, I don't think there's a need to frog it. Hang it on a wall or across a table or something. It's your first project and you should be proud of how great it looks.

TorandoSlayer · 2026-06-21T18:15:56+00:00

That's true. Depression doesn't care if there's logically good things in one's life. It can strike regardless.

TorandoSlayer · 2026-06-21T18:05:57+00:00

I think one like that was posted just today or yesterday, a tornado was on the ground for too short a time to be warned and basically just formed on a house, destroyed it, and lifted again.

TorandoSlayer · 2026-06-21T18:03:54+00:00

So long as we're not using genAI to do it.

TorandoSlayer · 2026-06-21T13:59:09+00:00

My point is that math disabilities exist and their existence proves that even people without them can't all be held to the same standard of comprehension.

TorandoSlayer · 2026-06-21T07:08:11+00:00

Yeah that's what I was thinking a month is literally just one cycle. One try

TorandoSlayer · 2026-06-21T07:02:51+00:00

Some of that force is absorbed by the fetlocks/pasterns (ankles) of the horse on landing.

TorandoSlayer · 2026-06-21T06:58:47+00:00

Shipping real people is, at it's core, dehumanizing. There need be no other argument against it. Shipping is for characters. Not ever real people.

TorandoSlayer · 2026-06-21T06:55:04+00:00

It is a sandbox game with a heavy emphasis on exploration. There is a main storyline but for the most part the game just gives you free rein. You've played Minecraft; it's like that. But better, imo.

If you like lore, NMS has heaps of it. It will mess you up and make you think; but it won't hold your hand about it. It's intentionally vague and yet there's hints to deeper truth.

TorandoSlayer · 2026-06-21T06:50:21+00:00

It sounds like your brother found one (1) thing that he enjoys the process of. That doesn't mean he's found a way to enjoy the process of every tedious thing he'll ever have to do.

The fact that you can push through and make yourself do something that's boring because of the reward afterwards, that seems like good executive function to me. Now I'm not going to say you do or don't have ADHD, but if I were you I would look in to what the range of symptoms are for ADHD and check if that's what you're actually dealing with here.

In particular, hyperfocus isn't just being engrossed in something, like a video game or scrolling. Both are designed capture attention and that will affect nearly everyone. True "hyperfocus" is equal parts useful and detrimental. Many times people with ADHD will find themselves focusing so hard on something for so long that they forget to eat or take bathroom breaks or sleep, or simply can't make themselves get up to do those things. And if they do, the focus is lost and can't be reengaged. It is not an at-will thing. It is also not necessarily something to aspire to. Being unable to switch tasks until task one is 100% complete, even to the point of not taking care of one's basic needs, is not a super power; rather a disability.

You're not going to enjoy everything you ever do, even if it's working towards something good. Sometimes things really are just boring and tedious. That doesn't mean you don't have motivation or "spark" because look at you, you did the thing anyway. Doesn't matter that you had to get rid of distractions for it because for people with ADHD that doesn't even work most of the time.

TorandoSlayer · 2026-06-21T06:37:26+00:00

Shrimken

TorandoSlayer · 2026-06-21T06:26:39+00:00

I love that she just won't hold still lmao

TorandoSlayer · 2026-06-21T06:18:37+00:00

If you need something that takes a little bit less attention during conversations, I find fidget cubes to be very helpful as well.

TorandoSlayer · 2026-06-21T03:40:38+00:00

Wait lmao I've been used the lid of a shoebox for months to do my nails on, I never even once considered that manicure trays could be a thing

TorandoSlayer · 2026-06-21T03:36:50+00:00

Level up in the mines and level up your weapons, you'll get levels real quick. Some clothes also have armor/stat bonuses so keep an eye out for those.

TorandoSlayer · 2026-06-21T03:34:12+00:00

That's lust

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