A daily microdose of magic mushrooms and a hit of pot every now and then. Sleep deprivation and breaking your cycle can cause an altered state of consciousness. You can achieve similar feelings through prolonged meditation too but pot and mushrooms cab force the brain of even the most depressed negative sad sap to feel the positivity emminating from of the universe.
I took the steps to pry myself away from google. Turned off all that stuff, nuked my yt channel history, all that. Exporting sub’s into RSS feeds and invidious. Freetube is an awesome desktop app for watching yt. The only thing I miss is interacting in the comment section but also at same time a blessing since I am the kind of person to accidentally write a 5 paragraph essay noons would ever read, no yt comments means less chance if wasting my time.
Also as I got older my taste and willingness to sit in front of YouTube all day has changed When I was a teen I spend hours and hours watching gaming content. As an adult I have better shit to do and would rather actually play games myself. I my sub’s list has whittled down from 200 > 100 > 50 and I only get a few new vids in my feed a day if that.
A artist/creator putting a price tag on their creative work is monetization.
A big pharma insulin maker charging diabetics 5x what they should because they know there’s high demand and people will literally die if they don’t fork up the cash is exploitation.
Monetization is assigning economic value to an physical asset.
Exploitation is artificially inflating the economic value of a resource necessary for survival and forcing a population of people into a position where they must give all of their generated value just to live. People need food, water, shelter, and sometimes life sustaining medicine. Most other things are nice convinences but entirely optional. Putting a million dollar price tag on an art piece isn’t exploitation, putting a 100$ price tag on a gallon of water would be.
Depends on the game and the extent of mod.
For doom its important to understand the difference between port and mod. Doom has 3 components, the physics engine that is the backbone skeleton of all the games internal code for movement bullet firing and all the functionality. ‘Assets’ which are the skin of the game, sprite artwork for enemies, walls, skyboxes, entities, pickups, GUI, sound and music. Maps are the flesh and blood, and using a map maker like SLADE can let you make your own a ‘mod’ can be as simple as a retextured sprite or as extensive as a full asset flip with new sounds and everything. Or a new set of maps.
Most mods don’t touch the physics engine though unless its an entirely new game built off dooms engine such as heretic.
Dooms physics game engine was open sourced a very long time ago meaning that the skeleton is free and open source. someone can make a 1 to 1 functional clone of doom if you make your own assets and maps (that’s the basis of the Freedoom IWAD project).
Ports are rewrites of the physics game engine either from its original source or completely new. Either to get the game on a console or new computer architecture. The original doom was for DOS, and when everyone moved to windows 95 native DOS comparability was lost and fans had to use inefficent emulation through Dosbox. Thats why source ports exist so that the game engine can run on newer computer hardware natively.Blood is a infamous case where the source code of the original game was lost, the new remaster of it uses a completely different engine and thus its gameplay cannot be 1 to 1 faithful.
Some games are made with modding in mind. Minetest comes to mind as its both a game engine and a playable game meant for users to build their own games. Surge the Rabbit is in the same vein being a 2d sonic clone/platformer engine meant to me nodded.
Some games are a nightmare to mod, Minecraft java edition for instance. Minecraft mods require mod loaders which inefficently tear apart the games code and patch in the mod content in a Frankensteins monster of a game code. Microjang at one point point promised modders an official supported game API but gave them the finger after they realized bedrock edition was where the money is.
Difficulty ranges on a scale then I guess. Easiest are very old games with open source ports that just require some basic image sprite and midi changes. Usually map making is very easy too. The medium is modern open source game engines that are intended for modding in mind. The hardest are locked down AAA games where the devs either ignore the modding community or even actively harm it.
No I don’t think so. Its definitely more of an enviromental upbringinf and personality predisposition thing. Some people just simply aren’t heavy thinkers or curious about anything. They live their life one day at a time in the moment without really contemplating anything. Its not genetic inheritances, its just how they choose to be/are.
I have a lot of experience with weight loss through strict dieting and generally my ‘thinness’ has always been tied with the scale number. Was never much of an excersise person besides basic walking routine always prefered just not eating. My diet does consist of a lot of protein too, though I do try to stay more on the fruits, veggie, and nuts side of it. So its a little jarring for me to be getting thinner while not loosing any total mass since ive never ‘bulked’ before. I really appreciate everyones input on this its good to know im not going crazy lol
Thank you for taking the time to reply. I apologize for assuming your situation. I definitely understand everyone’s life circumstances are different. I hope that you can still find ways to improve the quality of your life despite your daily challenges and perhaps find a few new hobbies to enjoy.
3000$ on a gaming PC is still a bit overkill IMO but if you truly feel that you want it in your heart of hearts go for it. You are the only one who knows what’s best for you. I would heavily recommend you look into the Steam Deck first, like seriously consider it. Its the biggest technological innovation gaming PCs have made to date, again in my opinion.
If you can still use your hands to a normal capacity a way to make extra money would be consider learning to crochet, sew, or knit with hemp yarn and cloth. Hemp made items are making a huge comeback here in the US right now and people are willing to pay good $ for any quality hemp item. If you can manage to learn tailoring/clothes making you can make big bucks and you can do it from home through etsy.
Very often I will be baited into arguing with a stranger on Lemmy here. Whenever someone gets under my skin I do my best to ignore them and step away from the PC and phone for a few hours and go smoke some pot. I have wasted enough time in my life arguing with strangers over differences in opinion. Too many trolls, mentally unwell people, and political extremist, all of which love to argue and are not interested in a meaningful exchange of ideas. At best they want to be ‘right’ and argue till their blue in the face, at worst they just want to waste my time and fuck with me.
Now I just let them say their piece and be done with it, to get along with my day in a positive way. And starves them of the interaction they want.