(As a note, I do have APD)

For me it’s too much sound input makes everything resemble the Peanuts adults talking.

One person talking is ok, two people talking is harder, three is pure white noise.

Drop music or environmental sounds on top of it and I can’t understand a damned thing.

I’d prefer text over audio, so long as I can skip the text when I am done reading. (Grr argh to the games that have both, but won’t let me skip because the NPC isn’t done speaking.)

Being able to choose either as the primary information delivery would be fantastic.

I’m a muted game player as well. Music is the first thing I turn down to negligible, followed environmental sounds. If I can’t control those, buhbye all sounds.

In the murder hobo games, I don’t really need to listen to that anyways.

Launching a new game shouldn’t shake the house. I shudder to think how loud it would be if my system volume was above 30%. I made the mistake of having a headset on when launching a new game, and the headset learned to fly.

A couple games are still loud even after setting game volume to less than 10%… They get the full mute treatment, I no longer care of they have the most amazing soundtrack, I value my ability to hear.

In a similar vein, games that have sounds for everything. I have to play with sounds off in games I enjoy, and some sounds are used to foreshadow dangers that I end up unaware of because I can’t deal with the sound of crickets or bees or a random humming that are always present. (Shout out to Satisfactory for the incredibly granular sound control, overwhelming at first, but once it was set up it is great.)

Remapping keys. I have function (and not always voluntary) but no feeling in part of my left hand, and an essential tremor that appears randomly. I need to disable some keys because I will find my character suddenly crouching/running/attacking or whatever at really inconvenient times, and with some games the controls are so touchy that I can’t aim or move in a straight line.

Not colorblind, but some games have some very headache inducing colour choices, I have sympathy for those who can’t see colour A font on Colour B background.

I don’t give a flying fuck how they try to explain it. I don’t want AI driven anything.

Let people opt in to that crap. They have an app store, out it’s there.

The first comment in this chain is a (paraphrased) Barenaked Ladies quote from three song “If I had a million dollars”

Which fits this thread far better than a lecture on healthy eating.

Turning the Stream shader feature of was the only way I could get Dune to run without a shader error crash. Good Enough is always problematic.

I was in danger of having sympathy for a lawyer, then this brought me back.

Way to take a serious matter and make it comical.

Fair enough. The creative modes are definitely worth considering, you can set build cost to zero, eliminating the waiting and farming. Survival aspects can also be tuned, so you can stand in storms and feel like a god.

Why not?

(It’s not really something I’ve ever thought about since I started using the term. It kinda just is.)

My bar is empty. Oh well.

I prefer Neo-Luddite. There’s a few aspects of modern tech I eschew - AI/LLM bring one of them.

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Awww, poor baby has had his fee fees hurt.

Caring face not found.

Sam and Dean using Holy Church flavoured Gatorade to defeat evil, then drinking the rest to recover their lost electrolytes…

Where I am, they won’t give you the vaccine until 50, unless there are good reasons for it.

Having shingles at 37 wasn’t a good enough reason, and now (over 50) I have to argue with my GP that I am since I am immune compromised don’t want it a second time.

Freelancer, PC

I would certainly check one out. Federated instances are a good start, being able to curate my own feeds and interests (tags being hijacked is a PITA) but I hold concern of the eventual crap creep.

I think I am in my Old Person Yells At Internet era.