Yeah indies usually have pretty decent demos! I actually haven’t even looked at the switch store lately but I don’t remember the bigger titles having demos?
And idk where everyone else is but the big games here (Australia) are still what I consider expensive (USD$45 minimum without a sale). Typical price is around USD$60. Even on sale they don’t get much below that for the big stuff - zelda, pokemon, Mario, animal crossing, etc. Curious how comparable that is to elsewhere.
True. Just depends on device and how committed people are to doing that lol. As a casual gamer (PC barely ever anymore and Nintendo switch, then I have emulators with a bunch of Nintendo classics) I wouldn’t bother. I don’t even know how to do that for a Nintendo switch.
So yeah it’s an option but in terms of the discussion about Gen z people not shelling out for video games, I think part of the decline has been from casual users who aren’t either shelling out $ and aren’t interested in enough to pirate 😅 I’m a millennial.
I assume to pirate and transfer to a Nintendo switch (I don’t have 2, just the original) there’s an initial set up cost?
I tend to stick to the emulator my brother got me with all our 90s(ish) childhood games lol. I don’t know if those exist yet for more modern games - or at least not at the cost of the classics!
Yep. I also hate when people say things like “I’ll be there in a afternoon” “at lunchtime” “in the morning”. What TIME? Afternoon? 1-5? Morning 7-12? Lunchtime? 11-2? Give me a one hour timeframe ffs.
And if you invite me to a group thing, please tell me who is going! And if we’re meeting somewhere where exactly are we meeting? The shopping center is big! Which cafe or restaurant? Do I go in or wait outside? Ahhhh! 😅
This is the thing. People have blown inclusiveness and accessibility into such a huge thing (“you can’t expect the world to cater to your every whim” and bullshit) when quite a bit of it is actually pretty minor… unless you’re extremely rigid but hang on, that’s us isn’t it? 😅
Non autistic people are incredibly rigid too imo. Simple changes like text-based communication (never lived in a time when this is SO simple to implement lol) could make all kinds of places from employment to health services and government services more accessible. Or “quiet hour” (do other places do this?) at supermarkets - they lower the lights, turn down the radio and machines, announcements and y’know what? Most people don’t notice until they come back on at full brightness/volume. It doesn’t affect most people but it can be extremely beneficial for some! This could be done so much more widely and make places more accessible.
Both visual and audio information on public transport. Again, this benefits everyone - most people wear earphones on public transport (and other public places) and would benefit from visual signage. This one frustrates me because where I am we do have this but it’s inconsistent. Some busses have the screen showing you where you are for each spot, some don’t, it’s random - that’s not accessible.
These aren’t outrageous asks especially with the technology we have, honestly we’ve had the technology to do these things easily for decades now so it really is a choice that it’s still not done (effectively). When I hear people arc up about these very basic accessibility needs it really just reminds me that the “rigid” trait of autism is not quite accurate. Perhaps we’re just rigid about different things than non autistic people are rigid about? But imo being particularly rigid is not exclusive to autism.
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Especially video games. Honestly as a casual gamer I get it. Games are expensive and they are a gamble. I’ve bought games in the past and played them for half hour and realized I hate it lol. I rarely buy games now, especially if it’s not a franchise I already know and like, because I can’t afford the gamble. If I do I buy a physical copy so I can sell it on.
At least with streaming services you can check and know there’s a few hours of shows you will definitely watch. It’s still tol expensive and I’m cancelling mine but it is less of a gamble than video games.
Yep. I’m a millennial. I was always pirating as a teenager/early 20s. Then I did join streaming, just Netflix and another local one. I’m about to cancel them both again as I rebuild my own library.
I was reworking my budget the other day and accidentally opened my old one from 5 years ago, so depressing 😅 Everything has gone up so much, seeing it all laid out in a spreadsheet was confronting 😭 both streaming services have doubled in price. 2 streaming services costs $500 a year total - as you say, maybe not a big deal if you’re earning 100k but as a low income earner it’s worth cutting. It’s only going to keep up going up! Subscription models suck for other programs and services too, it adds up so quickly 😭
It’s not exclusive to autism and ADHD. It can be due to various things (PTSD is another one) and it can be detrimental to people so if you have the “who cares” kind of over sharing then it’s likely not quite the same thing - or you have some cool people in your life lol.
I agree with you! Obviously it’s a nuanced thing too but it’s being over used as a concept.
I also detest the phrase “trauma dumping”.
I find it really sad that, one on hand, society has kind of but not really, gone from never talk about mental health, trauma, feelings, sweep it all under the rug etc to reach out! Speak up! Tell someone how you’re feeling! Don’t suffer alone, there’s always someone to talk to! But alongside the latter we have coined terms like over sharing and trauma dumping.
I don’t know if it’s my autism but I find the co-occuring mental health # movement and the terms of trauma dumping extremely confusing and damaging. It does feel like a correction, because those terms started to emerge years after reach out, speak up so it’s like oh shit, actually we didn’t know what that would look like so can you actually not reach out, speak up aka “over share” “trauma dump”
It’s a very insensitive way to label it I think. It’s nuanced because of course there are situations where it’s not appropriate or someone can’t be the person to hear that stuff and that’s okay but just let that individual know that and not create a whole term for it and complain about how someone “trauma dumped” on you.
It’s essentially “someone reached out to me and I didn’t know what to do or how to help and I have my own stuff going on so I couldn’t help them” - which is fine but now that is “ugh, so and so trauma dumped me today, like leave me alone, they’re so annoying/dramatic/etc”.
Yeahhh I can’t think of much worse than those kinds of team building days or whatever they are.
Is it a big group?
Does your new boss know of your disability? I’d be honest about your recovery time after social events and maybe (if it’s in your capacity) agree to one a year, not quarterly!
I just don’t get those kinds of things, if it’s not vital information and people are performing their jobs without attending these things, they really shouldn’t be mandatory. If some people get something from it then by all means, run them, just don’t make them compulsory and penalize people who a) don’t get anything from it whether disabled or not and b) obviously where it actually has a negative affect, recovery time and so on due to disability.
You’ve been in the job for 5 years so you’re obviously good at your job and I really hope your new boss can see that that’s what matters!
Haha yeah my email at work we can put a flag next to it and set a date and it reminds you to follow up on it in 24 hours, a week, whatever you set it to!
Yep and if I can’t action it immediately (need others input or something) I flag it because otherwise it just… doesn’t exist anymore lol.
Same. If I’m in a slump/depression I can let it crawl up to a few texts/emails but not to those kinds of numbers nope.
Personal email is a joke though because so much junk.
Me raving about why people ask you how are if they don’t want an answer 🙃
Also if I have a cake, I’m going to eat it too. If I can’t have my cake AND eat it too I don’t want a damn cake! 🎂 I always just think of a kid sadly watching their cake knowing they’re not allowed to eat it 😭😭😭😅
People also tend not to be very observant or, especially with parents, they have thrown their head in the sand. “No no you are/were a totally normal child”.
That was my parents. “Weird” or “not normal” was bad so the reassurance was always that I was normal. Meanwhile my sister: yeah but remember how she used to watch that one DVD every single day for a year? And she read the same 5 books over and over while she ate the same breakfast every day even when you bought new books? And how you had to stock pile that cereal because if there wasn’t any, she wouldn’t eat anything because that cereal was breakfast and afternoon tea and sometimes dinner." 😂
My assessment involved a couple of hours of talking to my folks and my dad finally reading the end report just said “how did we miss this” 😢
Haha I did a whole bunch of them in the waiting room before going in and I was getting so frustrated. But yes obviously the reason it’s needed to have not only these kinds of tests as the assessment but to only make up a small part.
Yes and I think non autistic/ADHD people do that like unconsciously, right? Fill in the context?
Whereas a huge part of autism for a lot of us IS “caring about the details” very consciously and needing those details explicitly stated to understand what I think others just understand?
One of the tests I did for my assessment did actually have multiple options like that! “Only when I was a child” “only as an adult” “as a child and an adult”, not exact wording but the answers were to to that effect!
Yes, this! Masking isn’t considered in a lot of these questions. Especially when it’s like “have other people told you that you do this thing”. No they haven’t but yes I do do that thing but I know it’s looked down on so I internalize it and nobody can see I do the thing! Why is this about what others can see?
I hate multiple choice, I always want to scribble “depends on circumstances” answer 😂 am I alone, or with someone I trust, a complete stranger, another country, a medical setting? It all changes the answer!
Tbh, women wouldn’t admit to doing this either - there’s absolutely a shame around women having to make friends with an AI (because we’re meant to be innately social I guess). And I don’t think that other women realize that they are contributing to the issues of women feeling shame using AI by implying it’s a male issue and all about sex and toxic masculinity.
Like as a woman who has used AI, how am I supposed to feel about admitting that I’ve done something that only asshole, horny, incels do (according to a lot of people)?
So the stigma goes all ways and none of it helps anyone. People just need to be more curious than judgemental. Someone does something you don’t understand? That’s okay you don’t understand. Ask them why. Listen. Try to see a different perspective instead of just filling in the gaps with incel, men, sex, ugly, etc. etc.
Ah okay yeah, I barely use steam these days. Can’t remember the last time I bought anything there, I just occasionally play very old games I already have on there haha.
Yeah i love a few Nintendo classic titles but $$$ 😭 kinda a good thing that I don’t like the direction they’re taking pokemon because it removes the temptation to upgrade to the switch 2. Not sure I’ll bother unless I somehow get free money to throw around haha.