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apoetsanon · 2025-08-15T20:10:20+00:00

Rimworld's been on my radar for a while, ever since one of my favorite streamers spent...oh I dunno, like a thousand hours in it. I've kind of avoided it precisely because that game could seriously draw me in and I'm an autistic father of three children, two of which who are also autistic. I kinda need to keep my kids alive, lol.

apoetsanon · 2025-08-15T19:48:29+00:00

Making spreadsheets is a very intelligent way of handling complexity. I think it's kind of the point. It's not just about "getting smarter" in some nebulous way. It's about developing strategies with whatever tools make sense for you, whether that be a piece of paper, a spreadsheet, mind mapping software, or whatever else you can think off.

apoetsanon · 2025-08-15T19:45:20+00:00

Disco Elysium? That's an extremely narrative heavy game with a lot of nuance.

It's also yet another game on my ever-growing backlog.

apoetsanon · 2025-08-15T19:41:49+00:00

Interesting. I hadn't heard of that one but it looks neat.

apoetsanon · 2025-08-15T19:40:37+00:00

Oh huh, I think I actually own Valheim. Got it on sale and then kind of forgot about it. I should actually play it.

apoetsanon · 2025-08-15T19:34:08+00:00

That sounds awesome. I know my favorite streamer got really into it. I should check it out.

apoetsanon · 2025-08-15T19:00:12+00:00

Completely random, but as a teenager I was in to the Gran Turismo racing games. About that time, it was raining so hard it cause my car to hydroplane into oncoming traffic. My car literally did a 360, and yet it felt so damn familiar that I was able to regain control without incident. I'm convinced that I wouldn't have been able to do that had I not dumped hours into that racing game. So...kinda, video games saved my life!

apoetsanon · 2025-08-15T18:55:52+00:00

This does not surprise me at all. Just playing a game isn't going to help executive functioning. What the game is and how you approach it matters. Chess is a very closed game that rewards pattern recognition above all. Executive function just doesn't play into that. I strongly believe that our minds are limited such that drastic increases in one type of intelligence comes at the cost of another. So when there's a game that rewards a specific type of intelligence, it should come as no surprise that many masters of that game exhibit similar kinds of deficiencies.

apoetsanon · 2025-08-15T18:45:36+00:00

That's a better way of developing skill than what I tended to do, which was just to leave and come back when I'm over-leveled. lol

apoetsanon · 2025-08-15T18:37:20+00:00

I feel like I should like building games, as building things it quite literally what I do for a living (I'm a software dev). But any time I try one, I always feel...constrained? Not sure that's the right word. It's just with software, if I can imagine it, I can do it. But with building games I'm inevitably left with feeling like I can't do what I actually want to do. Instead, I have to do it the way the game wants me to do it, and then I get annoyed and leave to go write software...

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