#and the facts it's four of like. not smaller hermits but not the usual suspects ppl new to the fandom now

[justletmeplayminecraft]

I also love the mumbo lag jokes, but it also makes me think in sense of worldbuilding, like theres afking and logging out and theyre voluntary but wouldnt crashing/lagging be so painful? Your stuck unmoving while the world pushes in on you, you cannot withstand the force of the worlds pressure so u cave in and involuntarily disappear from the world for a moment (also I think the fact mumbo could crash a server is so fun lore wise as well) // sorry to ramble lol hope ur doing well :)

I always think it's curious: where does a player go when they crash? I imagine the logical answer is back to a 'safe' world. Maybe their creative test world, a survival world, maybe even another server. Disorientated, probably still a bit hazy. Before realising what's happened and groaning.

If they're stuck in lagged chunks for too long, do they experience phantom lag for a while? Like how after going on a ride, sometimes you'll sit down afterwards and feel the motions in your head... It still feels like every movement is a fight against nothing, anticipating resistance and accidentally overshooting actions.

And lag clearly is a problem, considering many of the sub-admins' main jobs is to kick AFK players causing it. You have to wonder how Boatem experience it, when their area constantly has slight stutters. Probably get a headache if you're not careful, though I imagine they're used to it, in the strange way Boatem tends to be.

And especially with the new rendering mechanics, TPS now effects how the very world loads around the hermits.

But! The idea of lag and 'forgotten hermit moments' does lead me on one hell of a tangent I shall put under the cut. We set our scene in S6, when the hermits decided to fight 100 Withers. At once.

X's episode is named 'An Epic Failure' which about sums up the events. They'd previously fought 64 Withers in Season 3, so what's 100?

Joe, Cub, X and False were fully geared up. Doc was streaming at the time and (wisely) didn't get involved. But what they didn't anticipate was the amount of lag. The frames were so low the hermits could barely get hits off, let alone move effectively. Emergency 'save frames' measures were taken (lower render distance, low particles.) I wonder how they'd translate over, too.

X guessed that the lag was caused by the number of items left on the ground. Joe was the only person who ended up actually dying. X tried writing a command to show how many withers were left and even that took forever to do. Combat, even outside the main lag zone, was difficult. Arrows weren't firing correctly. Eating food took ages. If you want an exploration on the effects of lag: this is an episode to watch.

They got a few withers, but the Wither tornado remained in unloaded chunks throughout the season, with people occasionally dropping in to pick some off.

And you can only imagine how oppressive the lag must have felt. It was inhibiting. Moving was a struggle, eating, firing a bow. Typing commands. The entire world is stuttering, or maybe you are. There's consideration into whether the server needs rolling back. Those chunks become quarantined to keep the mass of entities causing the lag at bay.

(And because I love my Legacy lore, Pearl's reaction upon finding that one out after dealing with the catastrophic effects of the Withering Energy on Legacy.)

Anyway yes. Lag is one hell of a beast and I would love to see more world building around it.

[aceofaces20]

What would be a valid thing to submit as evidence for adhd? I feel like my teachers never noticed anything, all it ever says on my report is 'quiet', and im in the uk and you need school reports for diagnosis, and i feel like i wont be taken seriously cos they dont say 'bouncing off the walls' or something

I feel you, nonny. I wasn’t diagnosed until college because I was just “quiet.”

Odds are, if a lot of the symptoms add up enough to make you SUSPECT you have ADHD, you probably have it. But more research is always good!

So like many things, ADHD is a spectrum. The two ends of it are Inattentive to Hyperactive- and then you have people like me, in the middle, with the Combined version. Some people have more Inattentive than Hyperactive, some have more Hyperactive than Inattentive. Everyone who has ADHD experiences the symptoms a little differently.

You can find about six thousand symptoms lists online, but here I’ll tell you things that usually don’t end up on those lists that my therapist told me a lot of her patients ended up experiencing aside from listed symptoms.

(Note: Initially I tried to keep these short. Yeah, that didn’t work. I bolded the important parts.)

1. Insomnia, or at least a super screwy sleep schedule. No joke, this can be super detrimental and will only serve to exacerbate your symptoms. “Just set a sleep schedule!! You’ll feel better!” they all say- Thanks Barbara if I had any control over when my brain chooses to sleep at all I wouldn’t have this issue, ok?

-a solution to this is to, in all actuality, condition yourself. Start ONLY using your bed for sleep. Get a little chair or something in your room if you’re also a hermit like I was growing up (mushroom chairs are gr9) and once you get out of bed, don’t let yourself get back on it for more than a few minutes unless you’re going to sleep.

Some nights it’s not enough, but in general for me personally this has been an actual lifesaver- I can go from being not tired to exhausted at the drop of a hat in normal life anyway (another symptom they don’t usually tell you about) so it’s nice to be able to make it work for me for once- I get into bed, maybe spend 30 minutes restless and then I’m out.

2. On the subject of sleep. You kids ever heard of the sleep of the dead? Because guess what, I have ignored literal fire alarms in dorms because of it. About 1-2 hours into my sleep I enter a state akin to a bear hibernating. I have slept through wake-up alarms, slept through emergency alerts, slept through FIRE alarms, slept though friends and family attempting to wake me… you get the picture.

3. On the note of the hibernating bear. You constantly wake up angry (or at least disgruntled) at the universe and take a really, really long time to power on. No, I’m not talking “a case of the mornings.” I’m talking it takes me until noon some days to actually feel somewhat alert. I’m talking feeling nothing but seething rage at anyone who tries to engage you in higher brain function before you’re fully awake.-the seething rage is more personal to me, but, every single last one of my friends who’s ADHD has issues getting up in the morning. There’s hating mornings, and then there’s hating mornings.

4. About mornings. You’re constantly late to anything in the morning because you just couldn’t “get going.” i.e., you knew and 100% wanted to get up and get moving but your brain said “nah, let’s just sit here on tumblr mobile for a while k?”-it’s very difficult to describe this part of executive dysfunction with words, because it comes off as laziness to a lot of neurotypicals. It’s not laziness. It’s having the motivation and and will and the drive to do something and not forgetting about it and it still doesn’t get done.

“Why didn’t you do x?” they’ll ask. And you just sit there thinking shit, you meant to, really, honest to god meant to, it was on your brain to do and yet all you could actually do that day was sit around and watch terrible TV. And then you feel terrible because YOU think you’re lazy.It’s not laziness. It’s executive dysfunction.

5. Another not so well known EXDYF fact: Mental math or memorization for you will always be the literal bane of your existence. Teachers always told me I was a “smart kid” in school (I am, but not the point) and then they’d wonder why I couldn’t memorize a five line poem.

Or I’d start off with a 60 on a math test, until my teacher would comb through my work by hand (only useful math teacher I ever had in high school tbh) and I’d end up with a 92 because nearly all of my mistakes involved basic arithmetic errors. Even though I was able to use a calculator on the test.

(One time I decided 21-19=14. To this day 8 years later I still do not know from what abyss my brain pulled that info from.)

“You’re smart! Just focus!” I can’t choose what my brain decides to focus on that easily, Sharon, not without a lot of crying and panicking.

6. But wait! You say. I have really obscure information from a fandom that I can infodump on someone at a moment’s notice! Surely that means I’m just Lazy and Unmotivated, right? I guess I just can’t be bothered to memorize the important stuff.

*Loud buzzer noise* Stop right there. Do not pass go. Do not collect $200.

I will take you by the shoulders and look deep into your eyes and make you realize that guess what? If you have an ADHD brain, you have NO control over telling your brain what is important and what is not. Zero. Zip. Zilch. Nada. Your brain decides, and you usually get no say in the matter.

This sounds bad, I know. And in terms of school, birthdays, appointments, it’s terrible. But you’re not helpless. It sounds trite, but, get a good goddamn calendar app on your phone and use the hell out of it for appointments and birthdays. And for school? Find those fandoms and use mnemonics. No, seriously.

7. Also on school: You procrastinate the hell out of everything. And I’m not talking normal “haha I’ll do it later!” procrastination. I’m talking serious, problematic, REPEATED “why the fuck can’t I just do it on time like a normal person” procrastination where you start blaming yourself for not doing it sooner like a neurotypical.

Listen, buddy ol’ pal (or however that goes), you’re not neurotypical. But listen- there’s actually a medical reason why you do this.

So everyone’s brains have reward systems, right? Your brain gives you the feel good when you do something you think you should. And later, a brain remembers that it got the feel good for doing the thingy thing.

In a brain with ADHD, that reward system malfunctions. Sometimes critically. Your brain chucks so much stuff it deems “unnecessary” out the window it chucked out that feel good you got when you turned in that homework on time, or cleaned out your car, or did some pilates for 30 minutes.

8. You want to know what doesn’t help with number 7 there? Another thing that won’t show up on symptom lists but that virtually everyone I know with ADHD (quite a few, actually. Turns out we hang out in packs because we’re usually the only people who can understand each other) about ADHD is how daunting large tasks or projects seem to an ADHDer.

So listen, more medical talk here. Remember that EXDYF thing? Yeah, this is part of that.

EXDYF makes it very, very hard (almost impossible, sometimes) to break down large tasks into smaller, more feasible tasks. You get nervous the longer you put off that paper (“this isn’t something you can spit out overnight!”) You’ve been sitting in front of your computer for hours, and the only word you have written down is “The”.

Honestly, I’m not sure why it’s actually super hard to break down large undertakings into smaller tasks for the ADHD brain. But! Solution.

-if you’re having a problem breaking down ANY sort of task, I promise there’s someone else who’s done it online.

Need to write a paper? Use a template. Need to clean out your car? Find a checklist, or have a friend make you one (cause Lord knows I can’t make one on my own). Need to make a presentation? Find a sample one online. Hell, this even works for taxes. (Gasp!)

Do NOT be afraid to ask for help with even personal large undertakings. If your friends are actually your friends, then they’ll relish the chance. Especially when you can turn around and blaze through a quarter of the important project you two (or however many) have due next week in four hours because of hyperfocus.

9. So, your focus. Totally trash, right? That is, until you hyperfocus.

Hyperfocus, to a neurotypical, probably sounds great. Tune out all distractions and get shit done, right?

Sure, Linda, if you can call being able to ignore things like the need to sleep, eat, and use the bathroom “tuning out distractions.” Time becomes a literal illusion. And damn do you pay for it later by your brain not wanting to do anything at all.

On the flip side, this is why ADHD people make fantastic emergency workers like EMTs and firepeople. If you learn what to do with adrenaline when you start feeling it, you feel like you could punch Satan himself when you’re riding an adrenaline+hyperfocus high. Combine that with the fast-paced, unexpected nature of such jobs and and you have a happy ADHD brain because it’s never bored.

10. Because boredom feels like death. No, Cheryl, I’m not being overdramatic. Yes, Becky, I recognize everyone has to deal with boredom.

A neurotypical’s boredom and an ADHDer’s boredom are two very different levels of boredom. Ever heard the phrase “bored to tears”? Now imagine every time you get even a little bored, it’s like this.

And of course, the ADHD hell brain remembers the bad feels of being bored but can’t recall how nice it was to remember all of the answers on a quiz that one time you paid attention in class.This is why I have the worst problems doing homework and housework, or in general anything with serious repetition (exercise, cooking, driving, tidying up etc.). I can do it for maybe 10-15 minutes, and then my brain’s like “k I’m good. Next source of input please?” like, brain, I’m only like 3 feet into washing the kitchen floor. P l s.

11. Speaking of tears. Has rejection by someone you value ever felt like you wanted to quit existing on the spot, or at the very least wanted to move to an ice cave in Greenland and cry for the rest of your life? Even if the rejection was just perceived rejection and your friend was just expressing grumpiness at something else?

Even if your logic says “they didn’t reject you calm down you’re overreacting?”

Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria. It’s a newer term, but honestly, once I found out about my own ADHD and this bitch of a symptom a loooooooot of my weird habits started making a lot of sense in my head.

It doesn’t have to be actual “rejection”. It can get set off from stuff like awkwardness (hence my personal resistance to making Adult Phone Calls) to disbelief (a huge, huge reason so many people go undiagnosed), to personal judgment and/or criticisms (oh, ok… I guess I’ll never mention my love for X ever again) to even just indifference (no one noticed I mopped all the floors in the house… guess I’ll just go die!).

Basically, if you perceive that someone you care about has dismissed you in some fashion, you literally just want to quit existing. On the spot. Because the feeling of it makes you feel sick, your chest gets tight, you can feel it in your hands, and it makes the rest of your day miserable.This variant is more likely with people you care about, but can definitely 100% happen with strangers too.

Another variant is this: if you perceive that someone (whether you care about them or not) has dismissed you in some fashion, your first instinct is to attempt to disregard and discard them completely. It usually doesn’t work like you want it to.

I’m pretty sure this is another reason why ADHD people hang out in packs. We always have a line in our head we’re terrified to cross with our friends. It makes us seem like we’re emotionally unavailable- but in reality we’re just terrified of being dismissed by our friends for showing our true geeky, infodumping, hyperfixating selves.

(Listen. If a friend mocks you for your true self they weren’t your friend in the first place.)

12. But in terms of crossing that line… Social cues? What are social cues?

Normal people can infer a lot from body language. With a lot of ADHD people, we tend not to notice. Or we notice too much and overanalyze. There’s no in between.

On a side note, your best bet for flirting successfully with an ADHDer is to just come out and say it. (Talk like an elcor. “Flirtatiously: I want to hear more.” or whatever innocent phrase it is you’re using to flirt. If they’re into Mass Effect, this will make them laugh, which means bonus points for you in their eyes.)But seriously, unless you’re making obviously romantic overtures we’re usually pretty sure you’re just being nice.

Back on topic: lack of social ability is a massive, massive reason people with ADHD are usually bullied growing up. If there aren’t any other ADHD people around, it usually feels like no one “gets” you. I was bullied horribly enough during junior high and high school to the point where I still have to repress the urge to automatically assume someone being nice to me means they’re plotting something behind my back. (Didn’t help that my hs was basically the Korriban Sith academy without most of the death. Culty, religious, nepotism ran rampant.)

13. Woe betide thee who angers the ADHD. It's not a problem with everyone, but... We’re like volcanoes. Awe-inspiring to watch in action, but God help you if we explode in your direction. And if it’s righteous anger there is almost literally no stopping us.

Anger has its uses. Our problem is that, like a volcano, we always have a lot simmering under the surface. We tend to hold onto it for ridiculous amounts of time until one day, boom. Yeah, I know, Kathy, that happens with everyone. Delayed gratification and all. The difference with ADHDers is that we usually don’t wait.

ADHDers’ anger will come out initially, because we can’t suppress it. We’re impulsive as fuck. We don’t think before we leap (our brains probably wouldn’t let us anyway). And it will seem like we are flying off the handle for no reason whatsoever. But we also have a tendency to unhealthily hold onto it afterwards even once the initial burst has happened. It’s like a (bad!) positive feedback loop.

14. Gotta bounce the leg. Gotta rock. Gotta fidget. Shit, I’m sorry, were you talking?

So one time I made it through 40 minutes of a math class actively suppressing the urge to bounce my leg… and then my leg twitched of its own accord. Freaky as shit, 0/10 recommend.

Sitting still is physically impossible for me, and for a lot of ADHDers. Lack of impulse control + lack of social cue knowledge + lack of ability to decide what’s important to our brains = Fidget fidget. Fidget fidget. Twitch. Fiddle with paper. Hey, my backpack has a fun texture by the zipper. Oh my God, that lady on the TV is wearing the best shade of blue ever! I wonder where she got it. Shit, I need to go shopping. Wait, why did I need to go shopping again?

“Hey I asked you what you got for number 7.”

Fuck.

15. Depressive episodes. For me, these usually happen after a major hyperfocus where I taxed my brain for all it was worth, especially for long periods of time.

If it lasts for a long time or starts seriously affecting your life, get it checked out. If your doctor gives a damn they’ll be happy you came in to get it checked, even if it was the wrong diagnosis, because if it had been then at least they were there to help you. And they’ll always be happy to sit down and figure out what’s wrong. I know they have to watch out for hypochondriacs and whatnot. But if a doctor really cares about helping people they’ll listen when you say something’s wrong, because they know that you’re the one in your skin, not them. Which means if you really think something might be wrong, something probably is.

More evidence: justexecutivedysfunctionthings here on tumblr. Contains people’s experiences with EXDYF, which is a huge red flag for ADHD.

The Wikipedia article on the subject. There’s a nicely organized chart. (Or at least there was when I looked at it.) Remember, you don’t have to identify with all of the symptoms to be ADHD. Even if you only identify with a few, if they’re significant enough that they are seriously impacting your life and existence, it’s worth getting checked out.

I may add more to this later/change some stuff as my memory allows.

[oojamaflip-whatchamacallit]

#season six withernado my beloved#i see ppl referencing grian spawning withers for games p often but this gets forgotten about#i think cause a lot of ppl new to the fandom only know key events of S6#and the facts it's four of like. not smaller hermits but not the usual suspects ppl new to the fandom now#if you get what i mean#but lag is such an interesting mechanic and id honestly love more world building around it#what happens when it's so laggy you can't properly write commands anymore?#x has the suggestion function#but his spelling is questionable at times#gotta pull out the big boy console#which is an adventure in Itself#i just hhhh#there's so much cool stuff#realised i didn't answer how im doing so. not great! i have no motivation to do anything!#but im like. idk. ill figure things out eventually. ive already managed more today than i have for a while so

I also love the mumbo lag jokes, but it also makes me think in sense of worldbuilding, like theres afking and logging out and theyre voluntary but wouldnt crashing/lagging be so painful? Your stuck unmoving while the world pushes in on you, you cannot withstand the force of the worlds pressure so u cave in and involuntarily disappear from the world for a moment (also I think the fact mumbo could crash a server is so fun lore wise as well) // sorry to ramble lol hope ur doing well :)

I always think it's curious: where does a player go when they crash? I imagine the logical answer is back to a 'safe' world. Maybe their creative test world, a survival world, maybe even another server. Disorientated, probably still a bit hazy. Before realising what's happened and groaning.

If they're stuck in lagged chunks for too long, do they experience phantom lag for a while? Like how after going on a ride, sometimes you'll sit down afterwards and feel the motions in your head... It still feels like every movement is a fight against nothing, anticipating resistance and accidentally overshooting actions.

And lag clearly is a problem, considering many of the sub-admins' main jobs is to kick AFK players causing it. You have to wonder how Boatem experience it, when their area constantly has slight stutters. Probably get a headache if you're not careful, though I imagine they're used to it, in the strange way Boatem tends to be.

And especially with the new rendering mechanics, TPS now effects how the very world loads around the hermits.

But! The idea of lag and 'forgotten hermit moments' does lead me on one hell of a tangent I shall put under the cut. We set our scene in S6.

The hermits, for some reason, decided to fight 100 Withers at once. (X's episode is named 'An Epic Failure' which about sums it up.) They'd previously fought 64 Withers, back in Season 3, so what's 100?

Joe, Cub, X and False were fully geared up. Doc was streaming at the time and (wisely) didn't get involved. But what they didn't anticipate was the amount of lag. The frames were so low the hermits could barely get hits off, let alone move effectively. Emergency 'save frame measures were taken' (lower render distance, low particles.) I wonder how they'd translate over, too.

X guessed that the lag was caused by the number of items left on the ground. Joe was the only person who ended up actually dying. X tried writing a command to show how many withers were left and even that took forever to do. Combat, even outside the main lag zone, was difficult. Arrows weren't firing correctly. Eating food took ages. If you want an exploration on the effects of lag: this is an episode to watch.

They got a few withers, but the Wither tornado remained in unloaded chunks throughout the season, with people occasionally dropping in to pick some off.

And you can only imagine how oppressive the lag must have felt. It was inhibiting. Moving was a struggle, eating, firing a bow. Typing commands. The entire world is stuttering, or maybe you are. There's consideration into whether the server needs rolling back. Those chunks become quarantined to keep the mass of entities causing the lag at bay.

(And because I love my Legacy lore, Pearl's reaction upon finding that one out after dealing with the catastrophic effects of the Withering Energy on Legacy.)

Anyway yes. Lag is one hell of a beast and I would love to see more world building around it.