Questions from Patreon Part 73 - Big Cities, Social Media Addiction, FOMO Game Mechanics
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Tying up the MULEs will only temporarily disable their camps, they will eventually get free. To get rid of them permanently you have to actually kill them, which is where those incinerators come into play. Fully agree with you about that FOMO BS. I already hated it in multiplayer and pseudo-multiplayer games, but I especially hate it now that it's infected singleplayer games. That always-online stuff and servers going offline and features of existing products being disabled... oof. It's such a scary thing, not just that it's happening at all but that people are just letting it happen. I don't understand why people aren't more upset about it. It's terrifying to see so many people just... accepting it. Guess it explains the current political situation though :x The creepiest thing about the whole "likes" mechanic in Death Stranding is that they want this to be a whole new genre that people will build games around. It literally says this on the box.
Toksyuryel
2020-02-05 06:33:32 +0000 UTCFor anyone reading this. Don't worry about ADHD unless you got concentration issues, at times selective memmory, irregular sleep, a temprament that can go unstable as well as hyper/hypo mode. These things are things you need to have had signs of since childhood and still have as an adult. One of my unwind methods used is actually gaming as it allow me to disconnect my brain from something that went on causing me stress and let me refocus it on something else for an hour or two. That is most likley one of the influences to why my profile on any game store is focused around rpg, strategy, city skylines aka simulators and indies. It is also probably one of the reasons why I don't mind jrpg and find them relaxing as it is easy to just have the goal that session to get through that one dungeon or kill that bonus boss without it feeling grindy. I am saying this as a person who is actually diagnosed with it, the problem touched upon in this patreon video though with FOMO and social media as well as ALL other sources that trigger a positive feedback loop ( yes this include physical training at the gym etc ) is making people showcase symptoms that normally classifies under addiction or syndroms if they is locked out from the activity. Unlike someone like me who have to deal with these kind of issues on a weekly basis and as such have to have working methods to deal with it these "normal with control" never bother and look at general peoples mental health these days^^.
Solus
2020-02-02 11:10:05 +0000 UTC
