Of computer games, meta verses etc, I really don't get it, can anyone explain it to me, please?
What do you get out of it?
I keep seeing all this stuff advertised and I hit a big concrete wall in my head and think, ouch and eh?
Of computer games, meta verses etc, I really don't get it, can anyone explain it to me, please?
What do you get out of it?
I keep seeing all this stuff advertised and I hit a big concrete wall in my head and think, ouch and eh?
Anywhere else and you'd have been called a troll by now!
What I mostly get out of gaming is that I quickly become hyperfocused. Whether it's digging for gold (not a euphemism) in Minecraft, or shooting random evil dudes in Destiny 2, dropping blocks in Tetris, or solving endless Sudoku puzzles, my brain just engages 100%; everything else fades away. And that always present inner critic just shuts the heck up for a while. Ah, bliss.
Of course, this is followed by me wondering why I've been wasting my life for the past eight hours "doing nothing" (the critic is back), but I do feel more relaxed and recharged.
Gaming may be about as productive as staring at the flames in a fire, or watching the eddies in a flowing stream, or counting the bees and flowers in a spring meadow, but what's wrong with doing any of these things? It's all the same, really: just chillaxing.
Why would I be called a troll?
You're in an online forum with a bunch of adults. The demographic is going to include an unusually high proportion of people who are really, REALLY into gaming. You post, "I really don't get it". What happens next?
NT gamers would probably have gone apoplectic with rage and foamed at the mouth at the mere idea that you think that they are losers (because they're good at reading minds and subtexts like that). NT's would think that obviously you're just a troll (someone who posts just to start an argument) because they couldn't possibly be wrong about games being awesome for everyone!!!! (#NotAllNeurotypicals)
Here, however, the nice ND gamers, who are probably even more passionate about their gaming, just take your question at face value and gently and lovingly try to explain what gaming means to them. If it still means nothing to you, well then, that's just OK, too. (#NeurodivergentsAreLovely)
Does that answer your question?
You're in an online forum with a bunch of adults. The demographic is going to include an unusually high proportion of people who are really, REALLY into gaming. You post, "I really don't get it". What happens next?
NT gamers would probably have gone apoplectic with rage and foamed at the mouth at the mere idea that you think that they are losers (because they're good at reading minds and subtexts like that). NT's would think that obviously you're just a troll (someone who posts just to start an argument) because they couldn't possibly be wrong about games being awesome for everyone!!!! (#NotAllNeurotypicals)
Here, however, the nice ND gamers, who are probably even more passionate about their gaming, just take your question at face value and gently and lovingly try to explain what gaming means to them. If it still means nothing to you, well then, that's just OK, too. (#NeurodivergentsAreLovely)
Does that answer your question?
I look at all this social media stuff and ask 'what's in for me?' and I can't find a lot, just more of what the late Robert Anton Wilson called 'Assholes looking for a human being to attach themselves too'.
Do you think I'm a troll?
Nope. Let's call it a healthy scepticism for modern technology. We need more of you. Look at the state of the world!
I don't have a FaceBook/Twitter/Instagram/Snapchat/MySpace account. I never saw the point. "Hey! Look at the wonderful time I'm pretending to have!" Meantime Zuckerberg is hoovering up all my details to sell me stuff I don't want or telling me that I should be hating on immigrants like everyone else in my "friend" group. No thanks, Mark. I don't want to be told what to think or what to be interested in. Maybe that's a PDA thing. PDA has its benefits, I suppose.
I've met a few ND's who go apoplectic at my inability to use technology well, I lost one previously good friend because he decided he was only going to communicate using FB, hardly anyone was using it then, so I think he lost touch with quite a few people.
Nearly everyone I've met who is ND is really into tech and can't understand my difficulties, think I'm stupid and don't deserve to have a computer as I won't sue it "properly". There are a few NT's who agree with them too.
Do you think I'm a troll?
For me they're to bright and fast
I think it's different if you're playing them, rather than looking at them being played. When you're playing, you're in control. You never hear an Autistic person complain about the sound of their own chewing, if you know what I mean.
I don't think they're losers
I know. They would be imagining it.
I don't think they're losers, as others like ArchaeC have given good answers, I supose those who would think me a troll wouldn't understand why I like cooking so much, but they'd probably be quite happy to eat what I cook, lol.
For me they're to bright and fast, I don't feel the emotional connection that others do, its like modern cartoons they're all brght and jaggy, sharp lines and bright colours.
I'm a bit curious, others who often say they feel overwhelmed by the world and have sensory issues with bright colours and thingsd being to fast seem to love them.
It's also a bit of an autistic trope, that if you're autistic then you must be really into games and all things digital, I'm not at all competitive which is probably another reason I'm confused and bemused by others being so into them, but then I'm not into board games eithers. People seem to take games so seriously and get so het up about wining and losing. I seem to be a bit of an outlier that I don't understand all this digital stuff. But then I'm also just to old to have grown up with it, things like pacman and that ping pong video game were just coming along when I was a teenager and I was probably off doing teenage things.