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How do you scratch your itch? (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 10 months ago by to c/adhd@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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ADHD sucks. Probably not news to anyone who has to live with it. But, I've found that sometimes I can do relatively benign things that let me get some fun out of my little defective brain.

For instance, today the wife and kids are gone for a couple hours and I have the house all to myself. In these rare situations, I like to put an AC/DC record on and turn the stereo up nice and loud. The effect is hard to describe but it feels like scratching an itch in my brain. Hence the post title.

Thinking about this got me curious. What do you all do to get your dopamine fix?

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[–] 9 points 10 months ago (4 children)

For me its often a few dozen laps on a racimg sim, or playing guitar and singing loudly. It can vary, though.

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    I used to be absolutely obsessed with sim racing. Nowadays, I still enjoy it, but I often get overwhelmed with the range of choice (even when I pick a sim to play, I still have to pick an activity, car, track, opponents, etc), so I often just don't start.

    What's your sim of choice? Do you mainly do hotlaps?

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  • [–] 5 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    For a long time, I only played Project Cars 2. I've got like 2,500 hours in it on playstation lol.

    I like hotlapping to relax, but much prefer a nice clean circuit race with other drivers.

    I don't play on playstation any more and have been trying to find my new game, but not so successfully. I like Automobilista 2 because it reminds me a lot of PCars2, but I've also been playing a bit of RaceRoom and Dirt Rally 2.0.

    What is your preferred game / race format?

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  • [–] 4 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    I go from sim to sim, but at the moment I'm playing mostly AMS2 and LMU. A year or two ago, I was playing nothing but ACC, and I've also spent a fair bit of time in raceroom, dabbled in AC, F1 games, iRacing, etc

    As for preferred race format, I prefer to race against AI, if possible, 30-60 mins, sometimes shorter if I have less time and/or energy. Depends how familiar I am with the car/track as well. Recently I've just been lapping in different cars, trying out all the new content that has come out since I last played (like the 2005 GT1 cars in AMS2 - very nice)

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago

    If the AI is good, I can get behind that. But then, I say the same for people. I just don't like noob lobbies where passing someone means dodging them trying to ram you off of the track.

    Feel free to DM me if you want to play some AMS2 or Raceroom on steam at some point! Idt i have ams downloaded at teh moment, but was considering making space for it anyway. I'm also open to ACC and (if it works on linux now) LMU, but again, I'd need to DL them again.

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