Thanks

Well, looks like 4A is prepping to announce Metro 4.

Is there anyway you can prove you are in NK?

Why are you doing an AMA?

How did you find lemmy? and why lemmy? Why not reddit?

Wait, isn’t that the word for liking the wrong kind of Germans?

True.

What helped me is doing it in small sessions. Like only for 5 minutes or just 2-3 minutes or just doing breathing exercises and not doing the mindful part.

Before sleep worked best when I was super tired, sometimes I just fell asleep while meditating and that was really sweet. You can do it lying down as well.

But yeah, not going to lie, it’s difficult to get that “mindful” state.

Ah, lol, meant it as a joke. I apologise if it seemed “just get a planner, duh!”

I have ADHD(enough to disrupt life quite a bit), and you are right, it is very difficult to just concentrate. I hate concentrating, it’s frustrating and I lose every time.

But for me, none of the medicines available to me work or help any of the problems with ADHD and I don’t have money for it. So I’ve been deciding to raw dog life and instead meditation in part has helped me with handling some things.

I’ve been meditating for past 6 months straight now (not very successfully). But I continue to do it because of the discipline’s gentle nature. There are no hard and fast rules. I can be meditating and it won’t be what most people call meditating but it helps me calm down and I like that. Brief moments/seconds of calmness are worth it for me.

And over time, while reading up more about meditating, I’ve learnt that it’s also very very normal for the mind to wander, that’s like the default mode for it. More so for people with ADHD. I think you aren’t supposed to be perfectly focused (at least for most people). All you are supposed to do is to acknowledge what you feel and try and move on and feel what you are feeling in the moment without any judgement. It’s very difficult and not being able to do it is fine. Over time, you get a little better at it while you incur other benefits of Meditation.

It’s more than just trying to attain peace, it’s about learning to be gentle with yourself, giving yourself time for yourself, living in the moment and enjoying what little time you have.

Meditation can mean to be different things for different people.

I was lucky or call it unlucky to have had found the time to add meditation into my daily routine(life reasons). And even now it’s difficult to do every day, with what the ADHD not rewarding me to do it. For this, the work around is to do it as much as you can but consistently and being okay with missing out on days. (It’s not do or die, it’s the cumulative effort). Do it for 5 minutes or three minutes, not more. Forget about doing it for hours or something, consistency matters more than the time you put in.

There’s also different methods to choose from, some are easier for folks like us. I haven’t gotten into any of those, but I see people discussing it often to know. I would highly recommend the free app - medito. It has a lot of different options, courses to follow and is very beginner friendly. There’s no shady backdoor, you won’t be pushed into buying anything. Though It’s run by an NGO and they will ask for donations time to time.

If you have a quiet and calm place to do it, I’d highly recommend that. It really helps when the environment isn’t fighting you. I forget example recently did it twice in the forest and It was beautiful.

Also this is just my experience, try and see what works for you.

Meditation helps with this. Well at least it’s better than nothing. Well at least you can feel superior over others because you meditate.

Yup, that’s a major reason why people didn’t want to leave twitter. They’d built a following that they didn’t want to rebuilt.

I know people who hated elon Musk and had accounts on other microblogging platforms, but continued to post on twitter because that’s where they got their fill of engagement.

Shifting away from reddit to lemmy is fundamentally easier than it is from Twitter to mastadon. I think it’s part in due to the nature of the type of social media platforms they are.

And billionaires, especially the Nazis variety.

I quite enjoyed Elon getting bullied over POE2 stream.

No, please don’t sign if you are American. That can harm the petition with false signatures.

This is strictly ONLY for European union citizens!

Don’t worry, you can still help by spreading the message among your EU friends or family members(You don’t have to be a gamer to care about this or vote in this!). A lot of the exposure to this initiative is lacking when it comes to non-english speaking EU citizens. You can help there.

Hijacking.

Are you European Union Citizen? Do you like games?

Do you want to own games again? and not just “License” them? Then please join the Stop destroying Videogames Initiative.

Initiative - https://citizens-initiative.europa.eu/initiatives/details/2024/000007_en

(Only sign if you are a EU citizen!)

It’s an initiative to get the European parliament to discuss the matter all together, and Iirc, it already has some members that support it. (So It’s not just any ordinary petition that will go nowhere.)

We have already collected 42% of the 1 million signatures from European citizens required. But the deadline is June 2025 and if we don’t get enough signatures by then, it won’t be looked at by the European commission. So to at least get the matter to be discussed, please sign!

(ONLY FOR European Union citizens! No one else! Please do not sign if you aren’t an EU citizen. Also No Brits! there’s another initiative for the UK.)

Short video explainer about the initiative - https://youtu.be/mkMe9MxxZiI

For more info visit https://www.stopkillinggames.com/

You can also view the petitions for other countries - (Australia, Canada, UK, Brazil… and more)

Same. It was my games festival. Though it was too corporatey, it was the one delightful part of the year where I could get excited about the most insignificant and significant announcements. And how could you forget the vague, CGI trailers that always overpromised.

The hype was real.

Why don’t gamescon or gamesaward feel this way?

Basic history told me that?

Here, check under modern - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medicine

It’s not some fucking witch hunt. He’s a pretentious asshole, who thinks he is better than everyone else.

And yes people can have their own opinions, but he misrepresented the goals of the petition on purpose. Then he refused to debate it with someone (who knows what the petition was actually about) on live when called out.

On top of that he deleted ross’s comment, rebuking his shit opinions. How much more of dickhead can you get?

https://www.reddit.com/r/accursedfarms/s/q2GfDobrPh

He is just a nepo libertarian shill who has no real balls or mana.

Yes, true that.

I’ll even concede that you can find some common ground with them short term.

Sure, harm reduction is good. That’s what’s been happening for the past century.

But you give the liberals an inch and they’ll take a mile. They’re only “liberals” as long as they’re making money of others, as soon as something goes wrong they’re first in line asking for government handouts. That’s why the liberals will always prefer fascist over left wing idealists, because they’re opportunists more than anything else. They’ll backstab you and vote in fascists if they think they can make more money with them. That’s exactly what’s happening in the US.

We need new politics where hating on the LGBTQ+, immigrants, women, and putting money over the lives of few isn’t considered a political leaning.

Fuck pirate software. He derailed the conversation on stopkillinggames with his disingenuous straw man arguments.

He’s one of the most pretentious fucks I’ve seen.

“$80 games are bad for the games industry!”

There, I didn’t have to be a shill to say this.

We also didn’t have modern medicine for 99.9% of human existence. Want to return to that?

Look at what you made me do!

I wouldn’t have considered genocide, if you weren’t so idealistic!!

If you had only partnered up with the people who only care about money, we could have returned to the status quo.

Mate, the goal is to be idealistic. No one is perfect, but we want to strive for what’s the best and hope we reach there some day.