ADHD gaming

Processing any shaders...every load time. I guess the upside of spending too much on hardware it doesn't take as long as it could. I definitely ignored Hogwarts Legacy some game evenings cause it did that every time I played, it went away recently though and oddly I finished after being able to play right away.

One of the one games I've finished in like 3 years, which I assume is also an add thing, I don't finish a lot, just try and get my entertainment value and hope for the best after. Currently not wanting to lock into the last mission of cyberpunk 2077 heh.

Life quality improvement tip: disable that from steam download settings.

Yes

This is the ADHD memes community.

It gets very frustrating when people comment on every meme suggesting that this feeling might be caused by something else. ADHD unfortunately has to fight pretty powerfully to occupy a space for just ADHD.

Hey that's my line D:

Well both for some of us, but it's probably also the fact that you have no energy in your reserves to do your hobbies when everything is so fucking shite everywhere. Can't pay bills, tons of stress, videogames are now revenue generating devices instead of genuine entertainment, and social media on your phone delivers the same dopamine hits with much less effort. Your brain knows this so it makes it harder to work to play if that makes sense.

Are not supposed to just highly optimize our games for 3 hours and then shut the computer off when you get the golden 60-120fps?

Hey there! In case you weren't aware, Nexus Mods has something like Wabbajack, that they call Collections. Literally click and install, and start playing! I've tried quite a few this way, and highly recommend it. No longer going through pages and pages of mods to find the "correct" ones that work with the version you are on! :)

I played Roller Coaster Tycoon from 1999 recently. That was the exact opposite, and so refreshing. Its an efficient game, which I think it had to be to run well back then with the simulation of 1000 individual guests and the whole park on a Pentium 90 with 16 MB of RAM.

I don't remember how it was back then, but now playing it on a modern computer, it just loads instantly. When I noticed how truly instant it was, I was so surprised that I just switched back and forth between loading two saves for a bit :-)

I quit playing the Sims 4, I am simply, a builder. I would go on a month binge, then not play for 6months. Sometimes I'd play once a month-

But having to fix my mods every single time I booted was so much. I never had issue finding what was broken, it was just so time consuming. Then after two hours the game would be ready to play, and .. I would be instantly bored, forgot my house plan to the mind vortex, all energy spent, ugh. That game is seriously dead.

I was beyond excited to move from xbox to pc with that game. amazing how it took no time at all for me to hate it.

I also play PvE Rust, it takes like a half hour to load in, and i get a whopping 33FPS. Love that game so much, 20-30mins loading time is fine if I dont have to fix mods like a sleuth every fuckin time I want to play. Just walk slowly so the graphics can load in lmao

I still load into Rust and immediately just, log off often. Hyperfocus just isnt there sometimes. Thats when I load N (it's free and fun!) and play short levels.

Im interested in knowing what solo boardgames you like?

I can never play solo boardgames tbh. If I am going to play something solo, I can play something more complex on the PC. In fact, many of the most popular BGs have very good apps for themselves too. And if one wants to play something specifically boardgamey, things like Slay the Spire exist.

happened to me 3 times in a row two days ago

...it didn't used to be. It used to be fun. Can I please have that back? Please...? Please...

Find a book that really grabs you. When this happens, I usually don't know how to stop reading it.

Depends. If it's a book I'm not interested in or that I need to read for some reason: hell no. Just repeating the same few sentences over and over until I give up. If it's something I want to read though, and I'm hooked by the plot and curious what happens next, it's another timehole where 5 minutes of reading suddenly last at least an hour.

Often, I will reread the same paragraph a dozen times because I either fail to comprehend it, or because I can't help my mind from wandering. Sometimes my mind will wander to thinking about what might happen next, instead of just reading it.

If its a book or subject I'm really enjoying, this is a process I don't mind and even like doing. It's okay to just let your imagination run sometimes. But if it's a boring book, or it's something I'm totally uninterested in like required reading back in school, it's miserable and I've never been able to do it.

Unfortunately this means I'm terrible at research unless it's something I'm super interested in at the moment.

The best time to read books for me, was when I was paid to do it.

I worked the ticket booth at a state park. We had a lake, so we'd stay open even if it was raining. We'd have four or five boats come in the morning, I'd take their fees. The rest of the day I would sit in that booth making minimum wage, sitting in a small shelter from the rain, while being in the woods, and I'd read the whole time. I read 6 books that summer just from down time sitting in the booth

Read on my own time? I can't remember to bring the book with me. I really just need to put one in my purse.. oh look, I forgot to do that .. again.

If it's something dry, like a textbook, same. I can devour books like The Hobbit in a couple hours.

Here's a trick that works for me (who mainly have trouble getting started with things).

Decide that you only need to do the thing for 10 minutes. Set a timer for 10 minutes and get started. Then when the timer rings you've gotten going and will likely want to continue (forever).

Mine loads fast too. Doesn't mean I don't lose interest, just means I lose interest faster. More efficient that way.

I don't know about AAA games, but I play mostly indies and I never have this issue.

This has been the opposite of my experience. I played Bloodborne on a friend's PS4 and the load times were atrocious, sometimes over a minute to wrap between areas. I played it on my PC and all loading is 5 seconds or less

I was wondering why you posted it in general gaming and not here :)

It's not a big deal to crosspost immediately. It's not like I don't know you're a meme addict :D

Prince of Persia on 2x 5.25 floppies needed about 8 floppy changes to load