Posts made by Atomic

@SilentHills said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

@Atomic My condolensces about the Midwest. I'm sure you're probably not a cunt though.

No, but I have goals.

@insomniac7809 Hah! I was lent a copy of "How to speak Minnesotan".

I did make the mistake of saying on a date, of her outfit, "Interesting". Little did I know...

@SilentHills That may explain some of the difficulty I have had fitting in since I moved...

@Rinel said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

@Ganymede

I track you now. I was presuming you were using the meat industry breakdown as presaging a larger breakdown.

Frankly I'm all for a collapse of the meat market. We should be eating less as it is.

You can. I can't. I kind of need it.

The wretched bullshit happening in the US right now is a pretty clear example of how brutally corrupt and artificially fragile the economic and supply system is. Gany says it prettier.

I just now discovered Boston Legal. I never watched it when it was being made. I have to admit it has my attention, both for casting and the knife-sharp dialogue.

I'll have to get back to the premium shows at some point, but I needed a diversion and I remember my late father speaking fondly of the series.

@Auspice said in General Video Game Thread:

@Pandora said in General Video Game Thread:

Work from home they say, the day before Animal Crossing comes to Switch & the Final Fantasy 7 remake comes to PS4. Sure, I'll "work" from home.

I am so upset I don't have money for Animal Crossing. Want it so bad. I the franchise.

So...

..what's Animal Crossing?

My brother turned me on to Those Who Can't. I went in with a very jaundiced eye, since I hate that saying and rather like teachers, but the show isn't really about bagging on teachers, it's about the staff at a Colorado school, teachers included. It's crude and starts a little rough until they find their stride in the first season(like many shows). It's also becoming as quotable as Parks and Rec, which my brother also turned me on to, and which I also recommend.

All I want is the ability to repeat entered text by keying in the up arrow.

@Ganymede said in Good Music:

There was this.

Then this one.

And I sort of fell in love with mashups over time.

Your favorite?

Does the video have to be included? I first heard these audio-only, so seeing a video is weird to me. I think I have two:

This one sucked me into the form.

This one tickles my music pickle.. err, brain.

I don't think I have any visualization/auditory issues, save that I might be on the other side of that spectrum. My brain will construct images, not out of whole cloth, but basically... quilting it from the things I see around me. I have to squint sometimes to make sure I'm seeing what I think I'm seeing, and sometimes it's definitely not what was really there.

I also get full blown auditory hallucinations when I go to sleep, but they have been mostly limited to music. Not music I have heard before, but stuff my brain creates, in this case out of whole cloth. I have only managed to get one of them to stick long enough to really remember more than snatches of it.

Or maybe I just totally hallucinate.

@Gingerlily said in The ADD/ADHD Thread (cont'd from Peeves):

@Atomic said in The ADD/ADHD Thread (cont'd from Peeves):

My brother broached the idea to me that I should get .. I dunno, tested? Examined? However folks put a pin in figuring out how one isn't textbook neurotypical? He thinks I'm in the AD* zone, somewhere. A lot of reading later I'm inclined to take his advice. I guess the question is, outside of the possibility of a diagnosis, does it actually help getting it identified?

100% yes, at least if it is impacting your daily life in negative ways. Lots of adults who make it to adulthood without diagnosis have already developed effective strategies for mitigating the impact of ADD in order to get there. But if you feel like it does have a negative impact on life, whether its work or with interpersonal stuff or whatever else, its definitely worth getting the diagnosis. There are lots of new medications, they no longer just toss ritalin at the problem and hope it works, and there are also strategies and skills to learn whether you want to go the meds route or not. I'd go to a neurologist for testing rather than a GP if you have the option.

I'm feeling that way now. A few years back I had to quit caffeine and chocolate(really, all stims and one dopamine-affecting drug) due to an arrhythmia, and since then I'd swear I had a brain tumor with all my memory and concentration failures. I usually just try to deal, but it feels like this is something I can't reach this time.

@Ganymede

I read that "as dirty as possible".

I don't want to correct myself.

@Wretched said in The ADD/ADHD Thread (cont'd from Peeves):

@Atomic I would say it can definitely help. Even if it just helps you identify when your brain is being bullshit at you.

https://www.additudemag.com/ is a good resource. A few 'self tests' on there. But ADHD definitely has a bit of a spectrum, so a professional is usually the better bet.

Yeah, according to my brother, I should probably expect something something executive function.I guess I'll find out.

Learn this technology.

Okay!

Learn this technology.

Okay!

Work on these two long term projects.

Okay!

Identify the problems in this process.

Okay!

We have to have a talk about the KPIs I never told you about. Why aren't you doing anything?

....

My brother broached the idea to me that I should get .. I dunno, tested? Examined? However folks put a pin in figuring out how one isn't textbook neurotypical? He thinks I'm in the AD* zone, somewhere. A lot of reading later I'm inclined to take his advice. I guess the question is, outside of the possibility of a diagnosis, does it actually help getting it identified?

@Auspice said in Health and Wealth and GrownUp Stuff:

@Atomic said in Health and Wealth and GrownUp Stuff:

Gastroparesis

No, but it manifests similarly.

Due to a birth defect, I have a twist in my lower intestine. Sometimes (stress, something aggravating it, being sick, etc etc) it gets worse.

Ileus, I think? Or is that just the paralytic kind?

@Auspice said in Health and Wealth and GrownUp Stuff:

@silverfox said in Health and Wealth and GrownUp Stuff:

I known isn't the intention when people make these comments, but my brain always twists these kinds of suggestions (x worked for y, why don't you do it?) to this:

"I am now judging you for not doing <thing they suggested> to help with <symptom, disease, complaints>. You must not actually be hurting all that bad if you aren't going to try this."

Well, I've had people actually say things like that.

Mostly after making assumptions because fuck you I shouldn't have to justify my health conditions constantly.

'You were eating fries the other day and those are so unhealthy for you. If you only ate better you'd be fine.'
^ this is in the same lines as 'If you'd just diet you'd lose weight.' (And we know that's not the case; my thyroid and PCOS ladies TOTALLY know).

Guess what, sometimes my stomach is in such bad shape all I can eat is potato-based products, bread, rice, and baked chicken. The latter three can be bland af so lemme have my damn fried potatoes.

But seriously, those comments fall into the same lines as the people who make shitty comments about weight loss. You don't know me. You don't know my particular health issues. You don't know what I have tried.

Gastroparesis?

@Wretched said in Health and Wealth and GrownUp Stuff:

@JinShei You should also try cheering up. Maybe smile more? Cant you just get over it? It's all in your head after all. Just eat less.

You forgot somethingsomething gluten and weed is the new Jesus.

I tried it once, long ago. I remember they didn't want to allow a character made by the chargen rules they had in place at the time for being too competent.

I always thought that was weird. If you weren't good at something, you would both not get work in the shadows and not live very long in them either.