what are your special interests/what are you currently obsessed with? feel free to ramble in the thread :]
My current hyperfixation is Final Fantasy XIV!! I am in love with the characters, the story, the comradery. I started my own Free Company (guild) with my friend and partner, and it’s been a really fun experience leading my own little group! I also love getting invested in good stories while having down time to do pointless tasks like make a bunch of crafted items or fish away the day without a care in the world. And learning about pc building, since I want to learn all about building them. My graphics card fan went kaput, so I can’t play XIV right now, and there’s so much I need to learn before I really know what I’m doing! I’ve always loved computers since I was young, and as of late I’ve taken a shine to programming and how software works. It’s all so fascinating!
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Okay so for games this one is currently really into From the Depths, a game about building big boats, airships, planes, tanks, spaceships, satellites, or anything else you can imagine, then adding guns, an AI and blowing everything else up.
It’ll start off with the building.
The building system is Very complex. It’s so complex in fact, that it makes people quit before even finishing the first tutorial (~3 minutes). The most common achievement, completing the first tutorial, has just under a 40% achievement rate. Once you get past that though, you’ll realise the skill curve is a skill wall and you either need autism or have engineering degree to play it (have the first and am hoping to get the latter for the bonus proficiency). Once you get past that though, it provides incredible depth and complexity, will over 1000 unique building pieces! It might only take an hour or so to build something, maybe a few for something big, but what takes the most time is the fine tuning. How to get the best efficiency out of your steam engine? How to optimise the shell on this cannon? And of course, the AI. In this game, the AI takes the longest to fine tune, especially on planes and spacecraft. The AI controls how it manoeuvres to and engaged enemies, balancing the craft, aiming the weapons and evading the enemy’s. One of the great things about all this complexity is that it opens up so many different ways to play.
Want to make a satellite that eviscerates things from orbit with the world’s biggest laser? Sure! Want to make a jet specifically for flying into the enemy vehicle and drilling into it? Absolutely! Want to make a hydrofoil (Very cool by the way, check them out) that takes chunks out of the enemy with massive plasma cannons? Go ahead! Someone made a flying RTX 3090 which shoots missiles! Although it’s quite old, so it still working properly isn’t a guarantee. The possibilities here are endless!
The game main game is set on a planet called Neter, largely covered in water. There are various factions all competing for the limited resources. This one’s favourite is either the Onyx Watch, for their tanky builds focusing on an aesthetic or floating castles with massive cannons, or the Steel Striders, who have a more grounded aesthetic, copying elements of future tech, like railguns and advanced stealth tech. The Scarlet Dawn are also a very cool factions it thinks, being a race that left Neter hundreds of years ago for space, leaving the others to fight amongst themselves, but had to return because their planet was picked clean of useable material by their relentless industry. They mainly utilize spacecraft with heavy laser weapons or particle cannons and sometimes even warp drives!
There is also a mode called Ashes of the Empire, which is set on a large piece of land on Neter, around 10 years before the main game. In AotE, there are few fewer factions, as the Scarlet Dawn have not yet invaded, bringing themselves and the Twin Guard along, and the great Steel Empire has not yet fractured into the Steel Striders and various other factions. Either setting can usually be used for each gameplay mode, Speaking of which:
There are many things to do the game but I’ll start with the 4 main things.
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Designer Mode
In this mode, you can simply build craft, with no limits on cost or volume, but you can always challenge yourself with those. This mode is the calmest, as there are no threats unless you spawn them to test against, and even if you do take damage, you can simply repair for free. -
Campaign Mode
The main way to play the game, outside of designing craft. In this mode you spawn in craft that you’ve made earlier and either try to compete with red tape and rules and negotiations, to win via politics, which is super boring, Or, you could make alliances with other factions, and take on the others, fighting to destroy them! This mode plays almost like an RTS game. For extra challenge you can take the extra risk of building craft as you play, leaving yourself vulnerable while you have no craft ready, or even declare all out war and battle against every faction at once, pushing through the struggle to conquer them all and rule unchallenged over the land. -
Adventure Mode
This one’s favourite mode!
In this mode, you are left in a flat, empty place with nothing more than your boat. You slowly build up a craft with the materials you gather from the scrap of enemies you fight along the way, in order to complete with the slowly rising difficulty of said enemies. By the end of this mode you could have a hyper-manouverable jet fighter launching hundreds of missiles each pass, using it’s fast speed and rapid turn rate to evade the enemy shots, instead of armour. You could also have a massive battleship, covered in hundreds of guns, able to bombard anything and everything with enough projectiles that it’ll break no matter what it is, but all you start with is a little tiny raft, barely able to float. -
Multiplayer Battles
What building game that has weapons is complete without being able to battle other players? In this mode, you have a set amount of resources to use, and whoever comes out on top is the winner. There are often tournaments held with restrictions on volume, certain weapon types, or requiring a certain movement type or limiting armour.
TLDR: Epic vehicle builder designed for autistic people and engineers, with massive scale and massive skill wall.
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Note: The first half of this post is copied from music recommendations because it was a music recommendation, but then because hyperfixation it ended it and linked here to ramble more.
Today it’s here with some music from a small artist on the edge between several genres It can’t get out its head! Atsuover! Atsuover often uses happy, sparkly music, with dark and/or concerning lyrics. She is an artist most well known for her Friday Night Funkin’ tracks, but this one doesn’t really like any of that, so it’s here to talk about the concerning relatability of the rest of her tracks! Really though, the gender feelings and other relatability sure does with these.
Some of its favourites are
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Good Enough
This one is about, quite obviously, feeling like you aren’t good enough and how if other people are better then maybe she should just disappear. However at the end of the song she realises that even if she is flawed, people still love her. It’s also the first song where she had enough confidence to add vocals! -
Ms. Mediocre
Oh boy the depressing relatability. This one is essentially Good Enough 2, although there is no official vocal version there is lyrics in the YouTube video and marked on the Spotify page, so you can sing along if you want. As it is almost just Good Enough 2, this song is mainly about feeling like she’s terrible at everything and will always be that way. This one often used to include, and sometimes still, does include the quote “Ms. Mediocre, Hack of all Trades
Master of None Till the end of her days” in this bio. -
Artist Lemonade
This song is about pouring your absolute heart and soul into something, and then the terrible disappointment when other people, or worse, you don’t like it. -
Online Oversight
Oh boy, even more terrible relatability!
This song is about having unrestricted internet access from a young age and being very messed up by it.
Hyperfixation thread additions going forward!
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Past my Prime Time
This song is very relatable for this one. Past my Prime Time is about how it feels like everyone else is so much further ahead, and like you’ll never catch up. It’s also about how if she got the chance, she would go back and start it all over, she absolutely would to try and fix all her mistakes, stopping herself from feeling this way. -
UP TO SNUFF!(I’m on fire)
This song is less relatable, but still somewhat. It’s initially about the “Heck yeah! I’m so productive!” meaning of the phrase “I’m on fire”, but throughout the song shifts to meaning that if she doesn’t stop, she’ll burn out entirely. -
Storm
A very simple, silly little song that Anne made when her WiFi was out, about how she initially doesn’t feel right, but soon grows to enjoy not having any internet, because of the break from all the stress of the internet that provides. Speaking of which:
The not cutting it short end bit: Atsuover is a really darn cool artist who Ace relate to far, far too much.
Gender dysphoria and overwhelming doubt is so cool! /S
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My current hyperfixation that comes and goes every now and then:
Suguri!
a 2005 Bullet hell/shmup with unique dash mechanics and just peak boss design.
not perfect, but I love it! despite how hard it is…
Example: (not my vid)
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i think my special interest is concept of existence, and because of how wide the umbrella is, i think i know my top 3
i always was interested in how and why things are, like why somebody reacted a certain way or why a chemical reacted a certain way, it goes in all directions, and to me, that is really cool knowing what and why into a outcome, and knowing or asking why the universe fell into perfect spots for earth to form life is so important to me
another huge interest of mine is space, i love every single thing about space and ive gone down so many rabbitholes about the existence of earth, blackhole singularities, and whats inside gas and ice giants, space is so beautiful because of its emptiness and violent nature, but inanimate objects dont know that its being violent, and thats beautiful to me because its nature, and without space, we cannot exist
and the last one has to be about myself, more specifically how i wish i could explore earth and the world without any people or animials, just a empty world like how space is, id listen to lofi the entire time and i think exploring empty places would help me understand more about myself
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I think my special interest aside of having more than 10000 hours on gaming and learning 2d and 3d on blender for making anime girls, is comprehending and learning any type of system, object or process, from the mechanical systems that make a engine or a clock move, to the design philosophy and parts of a tank, war or economic concepts, why bike line infrastructure sucks in the US, learning to make music and now learn python for programming, learning to make, use, and understand things by myself without help is my interest, because i always had to learn everything alone, and when i tried to get someone to help me on something they would either deny my request or do it on the most lame way possible, so i ended up becoming obsessed with learning everything possible to be “good enough at it” then either keep increasing my knowledge about it permanently or go to the next one.
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I’ve been obssessed with the Mega Mushroom from the mario bros franchise, my guess might be because of it’s music, it’s short, fun to hum, catchy, and a shepard’s tone (which I love)
I’ve been imagining the mega mushroom being in other games I love and how much of a intimidating presence it would have, like the idea of being a large guy barreling through whatever map you’re on with the music playing, especially with a doppler effect sounds so cool
I’m also really into performing and showing off, not in a braggy way but with a “wow factor” or “glad that wasn’t be she stunted on” (using a mega mushroom to squish a player)
I love performance and the mega mushroom might be like the best possible type of ability in a game i’ve found so far, I’ve also farmed a bunch of mega mushroom clips in mkworld so i think i’m pretty hyper fixated on it
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