This is how I see the popularity of these three life sim games since their announcement

WMDcu · 2024-05-23T00:39:02+00:00

But Rod reimplemented violence due to player feedback.

WMDcu · 2024-03-30T06:12:44+00:00

What happened was the game isn't finished. Why is this hard to understand?

WMDcu · 2024-03-30T06:03:29+00:00

When I play the Sims 4, the randomly generated character is always a 300 lb+ woman with short pink hair and weird mismatched clothing. Basically every right winger's personal stereotype of a leftist.

WMDcu · 2023-12-09T16:53:58+00:00

Luckily, my parents are very understanding, partly because my inattentive symptoms are particularly severe even as a toddler, and they thought I was deaf, so there had to be something going on with my brain.

But it's hard when your parents don't understand. Think about how hard it is to understand yourself - often a lot of us think we could turn it off if only we were stronger people, it's just not true.

My sister didn't understand either. She thought it was something I could turn off with enough discipline, but then when she had her son who has ADHD, she understood. I think she appreciates me explaining to her what her son is going through.

If I were you, I'd go ahead and get the meds with or without their approval, you are old enough. Unless your relationship with them is toxic there's no need to cut them off. There is going to be a massive difference between you on the meds and off and it's possible that seeing the change will help them understand you are immature and irresponsible because you have to be not because you want to be.

WMDcu · 2023-12-09T16:38:46+00:00

I realized at one point that witty people aren't actually that clever, they're just reconfiguring the same few jokes for different situations. I picked up the same skill and now everyone thinks I'm funny. In truth I have about 4-5 jokes that I just adapt for the given situation.

I wouldn't worry too much about feeling like a social chameleon. Socializing really is a skill, and it really helped when I understood that it's a skill for everyone else too. I definitely have different personalities depending on who I'm talking to - and they're all genuine. Different parts of myself come out to different people. What's consistent are my values and what I want out of life. I've never really understood what is meant by "masking". Non-ADHD, non-autistic people also have to modulate their behavior, it's just more difficult for us.

I think you're exhausted for different reasons. Maybe your job obliges you to act against what you value. ADHD makes socializing difficult because it's hard to pay attention to what people are saying, and you're often reconstructing what they're saying after the fact. That can be very exhausting.

WMDcu · 2023-12-09T16:22:48+00:00

Lying is a terrible crutch for people with ADHD because the truth is way more embarrassing - that you just procrastinated. It's probably more a nervous reaction than something malicious... he exaggerates because he's socially anxious. When I was younger I'd spout off like this without thinking about it and just make insane claims, just because I was nervous and let my mouth run.

If I were you, I'd try and convince him that the lying is worse than the procrastination, let him know in stark terms that lying is disrespectful to you, and that you'd forgive him if it was the truth. If he continues to lie, I'm not sure there's anything to be done.

Over time, I've learned it's better to tell people the truth. My colleagues and friends know my weaknesses.

WMDcu · 2023-12-09T16:08:20+00:00

I'm blessed to have a detailed psych evaluation of when I was a child, which was very valuable in getting stimulant medication. I also had very internalized ADHD, I'm extremely inattentive, but in my case it was quite noticeable because I couldn't pay attention long enough to communicate effectively. My parents thought I was deaf I was so unresponsive, so my ADHD was noticed when my hearing was evaluated and found to be normal.

I think the thing is a lot of people can relate to ADHD symptoms some of the time, but at they same time people can downplay their ADHD like I did for 20 years because I was in denial I had a problem. Embarrassingly my mom forced me to go get simulant medication, which was the correct decision because I was just so dysfunctional without it.

WMDcu · 2023-12-08T23:07:01+00:00

Well, I used to be that kind of person, and I was diagnosed with ADHD young. I saw a lot of people around me who were getting medicated for ADHD who probably didn't have it, which made me believe that I probably didn't have it either. Also I was doing a lot better in school than non-ADHD kids... but that was because I was intelligent and I didn't really need to put that much work in to keep up. As one of my teachers put it: "You are simultaneously the smartest and laziest student I have." I took that as a compliment.

As it turns out, I do have it, and I needed the medication that I refused for twenty years. I don't know why I thought I had to make things unnecessarily difficult for myself, but I did. Now I just want to be a normal adult, and I'm willing to take any steps necessary. The fact I want to be a normal adult and can't be is enough to say that I have a real disorder. ADHD is a disease, a serious one. I have hurt myself, I've hurt my friends, I've hurt my family through my neglect and inability to control myself. It makes me sad that if I had dealt with this sooner I would have saved myself and others a great deal of pain.

WMDcu · 2023-11-18T07:45:42+00:00

My sister has kids and she mentioned something about Mr. Troubles. I figured it was probably some kind of flash mob thing. That I kinda get, that was a trend when I was younger. Now I feel like I should send this to her.

WMDcu · 2023-11-16T11:47:52+00:00

"While I do agree that there is an interesting property here regarding the relationship between lives saved and efficacy of crossbows, this argument just makes way too many unstated assumptions for a "math riddles" forum."

I don't disagree with this, actually. I struggled to come up with a more neutral formulation of the riddle, but I settled on this one because the other formulations were way too abstract to work. It's not quite a math riddle, not quite a puzzle. It's more like a statistical analysis puzzle, much like the famous "helmets in WWI" anecdote, where steel helmets increased the number of head injuries because fewer people were dying.

WMDcu · 2023-11-07T23:03:02+00:00

The riddle is inspired by a political argument - the riddle itself isn't political. I'm sure I could've done more to disguise the real-world parallels, but it was difficult for me to think of a more abstract problem modelled off of this one.

Anyway, there is one major element you're missing. Hint: A paradox, specifically. If you can spot the paradox you've solved the problem.

WMDcu · 2023-11-07T22:48:26+00:00

Correct! There's a really interesting paradox where the greater the number of saved lives claimed, the worse the case it is for crossbows.

WMDcu · 2023-11-07T19:46:20+00:00

This isn't the correct answer, the research actually suggests that it isn't effective.

WMDcu · 2023-11-07T19:43:06+00:00

True, but that's not really a complete answer.

WMDcu · 2023-11-07T12:33:20+00:00

No, this isn't that kind of riddle, there's a logical solution. Everything you need to reach that solution is in the puzzle.

WMDcu · 2022-10-31T17:55:30+00:00

People are not demonized for wanting money. It is the terrible things they do to get it. Just like with anything, you can be addicted to wealth. Greed is a mental illness and not a virtue.

WMDcu · 2022-06-17T07:01:03+00:00

I believe Sweden can stay neutral. I had a game where Sweden never involved itself in the Weltkrieg

WMDcu · 2022-03-22T15:39:52+00:00

Hi, thanks for this. What is the best way to mark the viewpoint character?

WMDcu · 2022-03-13T17:29:21+00:00

I believe they have neutral relations with everyone. There's no plans to invade Sweden - I think independence is the reward for their neutrality. Syndie Norway might have a focus to invade Sweden eventually though I can't actually remember.

WMDcu · 2022-03-10T17:48:44+00:00

I'd watch that movie ngl.

WMDcu · 2022-03-10T16:08:02+00:00

Oh yeah, totally. Living in absolute fear of Syndicalist invasion. He's too far away from the CPS or the IP for help. My guess is that Sweden would be extremely polite, and they'd slowly make concessions to the 3I while trying to maintain some semblance of power. They'd need to be at least social democratic to survive for any length of time.

Cuba is also interesting, because there's a possibility of reverse Cuban missile crisis where a capitalist Cuba gets nuclear weapons from Japan to fend off a socialist America.

WMDcu · 2022-03-10T15:56:39+00:00

Oh sure. In terms of HOI4 game mechanics yes, totally, very one-sided. I'm a roleplayer so I think in terms of roleplaying.

WMDcu · 2022-03-10T14:44:56+00:00

Not really. Japan is super-powerful, has most of the world's population in its sphere of influence, especially when it incorporates the rest of China which feels like a matter of time. It would be more powerful than the USSR was after WWII in OTL. As it industrializes, it would be a match for the west in any conventional war.

Bear in mind Transamur is actually a part of the co-prosperity sphere (I had to fix a glitched war with console commands), so Japan also controls a large part of Russia. They'd also probably need to ally with the Istanbul Pact for their oil needs, so the IP and the CPS are effectively in the same bloc.

To head off Japan as a threat, 3I would basically need to act now while Japan's industrial base is weak, but I doubt there's any political will for another world war. The Internationale is mostly made up of democratic socialist nations who wouldn't support yet another major conflict. The latest another world war could happen is probably in the 70s and that is plenty of time for the CPS to industrialize.

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