• Jarix@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      1 天前

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

  • Phoenicianpirate@lemm.eeEnglish
    4·
    1 天前

    This is why MAME emulation and classic arcade games are so addictive. They were no bullshit. They got you started right away.

  • u/lukmly013 💾 (lemmy.sdf.org)@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
    7·
    1 天前

    YES!

    I finished downloading almost 40GB of Call of Duty Mobile over mobile data on February 21st. I still haven’t played it, and now it needs updates installed for sure.
    Yeah, quite a big phone game.

  • gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    4·
    1 天前

    If a game takes 2 minutes to come to the menu, yes then i do lose interest in the game, not because of ADHD, but because i recognize it’s inefficiently coded and probably will hang and lag like crazy later on.

  • Eugene V. Debs' Ghost@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    2·
    1 天前

    Too god damn true. Some games back on the last two generations took so god damn long to load. GTA V took I believe like 4 minutes to load from cold boot? So I’d be lost in thought, and the bored by the time the game loaded up.

  • Marzanna@scribe.disroot.orgEnglish
    12·
    2 天前

    I don’t have ADHD but it happens to me sometimes. Because all of these lengthy updates, shader caching, loading of game loader, loading of game, etc. By the time a game fully loads I need to go to bed.

    • Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      11·
      2 天前

      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 :-)

    • Madzielle@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      5·
      2 天前

      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.

    • orbitz@lemmy.caEnglish
      5·
      2 天前

      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.

      • ZorsithEnglish
        3·
        2 天前

        Okay so its not just me that sits on the last mission of games for no real reason?

    • DogWater@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      1 天前

      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.

    • flicker@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      5·
      2 天前

      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.

    • db0@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPMEnglish
      2·
      2 天前

      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.

      • Madzielle@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        1·
        14 小时前

        I ask because my son, near 12 years of age, has ADHD and ODD. Videogames have historically been a massive issue with him, and today doesn’t play them. He does however love board games. However being he is a only child, he will play Chess/Clue/Yahtzee against himself often. I play when I can but I’m not always able to. He doesn’t like drawing, painting or writing, so I lean into board games.

        I’ve found a few solo board games, but nothing good

        Was hoping to hear what else might be out there that people find enjoyable, as his birthday is soon.

        I’ll look up what Slay the Spire is

        • db0@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPMEnglish
          1·
          10 小时前

          Also monster train 2,just came out.

          For solo boardgames, it really depends on its age, but if old enough to play complex ones, there’s some ones with almost infinite replayability. Spirit island, Dune Imperium, mage Knight, voidfall.

  • potatobroEnglish
    17·
    2 天前

    Game: optimizing shaders, please wait

    Me: looks at phone

    Game: loads into main menu

    Me: jams to the main menu music while scrolling for 45 mins

    Me: Nah I don’t wanna play anymore

  • regdog@lemmy.worldEnglish
    8·
    2 天前

    That is why the first thing I do with ANY new PC game is to disable all those company logos and legal bumpers that are played before you even get to the main menu.

    In most cases it is as easy as opening the game’s files in explorer and deleting a few files, like “nvidia_logo.bik” or “legal.bik”.

  • Matty_r@programming.devEnglish
    7·
    2 天前

    Get a Steam Deck, and you can press the power button whenever you want to stop playing and it puts the system on standby. Press it again and it powers on in a couple seconds right where you left it.

  • Ech@lemm.eeEnglish
    12·
    2 天前

    Or you’re trying to mod skyrim for the first time in 10+ years and hyper focus on troubleshooting crash after crash for 36-ish hours.

    Just a theoretical scenario…

    • LucidNightmare@lemm.eeEnglish
      2·
      2 天前

      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! :)

      • Ech@lemm.eeEnglish
        2·
        2 天前

        I did find my way to the nexus’ collections (though thank you for the tip), which would’ve gone smoothly if I hadn’t fumbled a fresh install beforehand with an issue I already addressed in the first install.

        Not a great feeling when you realize the last 10 hours of frustration are entirely self inflicted XD

        • LucidNightmare@lemm.eeEnglish
          2·
          2 天前

          Awh, trust me, I totally understand! I can also recommend downloading the game fresh, zipping it up afterwards, and then start tinkering. That way if you mess something up, you can delete the entire folder contents and unzip the files back into the folder for a “fresh” install!

          You may know this too, but in case anyone else comes across our conversation! :)

    • SynopsisTantilize@lemm.eeEnglish
      7·
      2 天前

      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?

  • throwawayacc0430@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    7·
    2 天前

    Curious, how are people with adhd supposed to read a book?

    I’m not sure if I have adhd, but I sure do have trouble even trying to read a book.

    A quick skim of a wikipedia page or news article is the best I can do.

    • kattfisk@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      2·
      1 天前

      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).

    • db0@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPMEnglish
      10·
      2 天前

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

    • Nelots@lemm.eeEnglish
      6·
      2 天前

      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.

    • Madzielle@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      4·
      2 天前

      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.

    • flughoernchen@feddit.orgEnglish
      9·
      2 天前

      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.