Novamdomum

These days it's so hard to sort the marketing from the reality isn't it?

My brain squirrels cannot sit still long enough to focus on an ordinary news/current affairs website. It's all so painfully slow and boring. There was (a long time ago) a java script wall of news from all over the world that updated in real time. It closed years ago and I never found anything similar. It was just a wonderful mosaic of headlines and stories that didn't sit still. The mosaic felt alive and if something caught your attention you better click on it before it turns into something else! You kind of see things like this in some movies, where they look at a wall of info on a big screen and everything is moving and updating. It's not waiting for clicks. You have to chase it! Is there anything like that or maybe a site that lets you construct a bunch of real time feeds that update constantly?

p.s. I realise that to many what I'm describing probably sounds like hell on earth but to my brain squirrels it would be heaven 🤣

(Update the first: Looks like the Feedbro Add-on in Firefox is the closest I'm going to get at the moment)

(Update the second: Thanks so much to geekwithsoul for finding that old javascript site I was talking about. I never thought I'd see it again. I've added a pic of what it looks like on my wide screen. Now that's what I call a wall of information ❤️)

These are the games I've been obsessing over (includes medieval themed ones):

Super Mini Mart - https://store.steampowered.com/app/1914060/Super_Mini_Mart/

Winkeltje: The Little Shop - https://store.steampowered.com/app/949290/Winkeltje_The_Little_Shop/

inKONBINI: One Store. Many Stories - https://store.steampowered.com/app/2723430/inKONBINI_One_Store_Many_Stories/

Cozy Keep: Farm, Craft, Manage - https://store.steampowered.com/app/2261350/Cozy_Keep_Farm_Craft_Manage/

Super Mini Mart is my favourite at the moment. It's not perfect, but it's a really chill experience. Staff are pretty useless, as they cost a lot and get in everyone's way. It's more fun to do everything myself anyway. It's just a really satisfying game loop and I hope, as it develops, we get qol improvements like auto stock buying for essentials and auto stacking of goods by sell by date. That last one is important because I always end up waiting till all the stuff in the shop is gone before ordering more. That's so that customers aren't given so much choice that they never get around to buying stuff before it goes out of date. It gets 5 stars from me though, cos it's really fun 🙂

Winkeltje was the game that got me into the whole shop running experience. The top down view is kind of restrictive though and it's not nearly as fun as Super Mini Mart. I'd still give it a solid 3 stars. I love the screenshots of peoples fully developed shops but it feels like it would be such a huge amount of work to get there 😥.

inKonbini is just a demo at the moment, but it's so atmospheric and lovely. I can't wait to play the full game. It really leans into the fascinating culture of the Konbini store and the people who run them, as well as their relationships with their customers. It's a deliberately slow paced, thoughtful game, and it's really interesting that in the discussion groups, when someone recently asked for the devs to speed the main characters movement up, a ton of other players shouted all together to please NOT do that. It's just a demo but I'd still give it 5 stars 😁.

Cozy Keep is basically Winkeltje in first person, as far as I'm concerned. I'm classing it as a supermarket sim because most of the same mechanics apply. You buy stock, including all the standard groceries, put it on display and sell it. Then you develop the shop, increase it's appeal through decorations and reputation and sell more and more until you're successful and the shop is thriving. It's really fun, but maybe a little less accessible than Super Mini Mart. There's kind of an overwhelming amount of different things to do as well, which I'm finding a little off-putting. Still giving it a good 3 stars though 😎.

I've seen that there are several other shop/supermarket type games out there, but I haven't tried any so far. Do you know of any good ones? and are there any that have really cracked the hiring staff thing yet?

You fell in love with a game and it's characters, sunk hundreds, maybe even thousands of hours into it. It became a comforting, immensely satisfying part of your daily life. Then you heard a sequel was coming and got really hyped but when it came out it was utter rubbish...

Which game(s) was that for you?

It happened to me this morning. I was feeling like everyone hated me and I was completely useless and a failure at everything and then I suddenly thought... "What would Worf do?" and things actually started to feel better 🤣 What's your strategy?

This was my first ever experience of a dungeon crawler and I was completely hooked and somehow managed to finish it.

I've always wondered what the closest modern successor to it might be. I just loved the first person feeling of solitude down there and the layers of dungeon getting more and more dangerous as you explored them. I also loved that there were factions that could be friendly in there and that you could trade with. Does anyone know what the nearest equivalent to this masterpiece might be?

I still have my 20 year old Yamaha Tyros 2 and I love it. It somehow still works too! I loved it though because it was such an all in one solution for writing, recording and performing music and vocals. By today's standards though it does feel like operating a telephone exchange in a world full of smartphones (and you have to constantly dodge super cringe music styles - OberPolka2 or LimboRock anyone?) .

My question is what do you young'uns use these days that could give me that same all in one feel with lots of auto accompaniment support? Also, I'd love to be able to sample my vocals and layer them within the one unit. Is there anything like that around? I mean I assume there must be given 20 years of technological evolution since the Tyros 2 came out 😄

I discovered I had ADHD about 18 months ago and since then I've noticed my personality has changed quite a bit. Just knowing the reason why the world always seemed such a confusing place and realising how much masking I did all my life, I've noticed the pendulum seems to be swinging in the other way now. I'm never masking again and if that means I seem strange to neurotypicals then so be it.

Have any of you who also discovered your neurospicyness in the last few years experienced anything like this as well? I'm just done pretending and I know it's probably making me more of a challenge to be around.

I wonder if this is normal and if the pendulum will swing back eventually to a more harmonious place.

Also when did it become ok for dentists to tell you off for not brushing up to their standards. I just noticed how they routinely use shaming as a form of control.

The things that get in the way for me are: getting instantly bored with any weight loss strategy, an inability to do things if I'm told I have to, forgetting that I need to lose weight, needing the sensory input of food, inability to recognise when I'm full, hyper-focusing on weight loss for a month and losing a ton of weight and then putting it all back on the next month because I celebrated the weight loss with cake...

I just wonder if there are any ADHD behaviour hacks where I could use my neurospicyness to actually help me lose weight consistently.

I am a reddit refugee from the mod wars. I love it here. I originally made an mbin account but then 9 months ago mbin seemed to die so I made a new fedia.io account and things have been going swimmingly so far.

A few days ago I noticed that fedia.io pages have been loading increasingly slowly. All I am wondering is where the best magazine/online place/other forum I can check is to see if there are any issues happening on fedia.io or anything that might be responsible for the slowed performance.

I can't just search "Is fedia.io down" like I would with other online resources. Any help or steer towards more appropriate places for me to ask this question would be much appreciated.

The only group that's ever accepted me and has welcomed me without doing that so far has been my local drama group (and, of course, this place :) ). There, it seems my "Golden retriever" energy is always welcomed and in fact valued. What's been your experience?