Boblogg Ravarge
Refugee
I have ADHD, Type-B Personality Disorder (including but not limited to Borderline Personality Disorder, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, Perverse Narcissistic Personality Disorder (to a lesser degree), numerous autistic traits, etc...), Hyperhidrosis, Depression, Chronic Anxiety and Light Agoraphobia. (In doubt, look them up, they're all pretty damn handicapping, even worse mashed up together, resulting in a completely non-solvable or economically harmful / undesirable employee).
Thus, these conditions, when mixed together result in me, at 35 years old, being told by my family doctor, that I might as well make peace with the very real possibility that I may never be able to keep a steady job, much less a career. They also make it very difficult for me to be in social situations, which generate a high degree of fatigue and stress after a relatively short amount of time.
I'm also recipient of "Social Aid". Which is a form of last resort we have here in Quebec, Canada for unemployed people. I receive money from the government to survive and since I'm medically unfit for work due to a Severe Work Constraint justified by the aforementioned diagnostics and conditions. My financial situation is always precarious at best, even with the Severe Work Constraint added money.
The underlying issue here is, I'm FAR from being the only one in this situation, even those who ARE able to transcend their conditions so that they're more socially functional, can actually work, rebuild their social circles (post-depression or post-COVID), make friends again and work towards keeping and nurturing these friendships.
The financial and administrative necessities alone to be an active and recognized streamer are something must of us could never possibly hope to attain. Being able to maintain a high presence on social media, as well as buy and maintain high quality streaming and gaming equipment and a presentable environment to film / stream in is not something I am physically or mentally capable of doing.
Under these conditions, I believe not having the possibility to access 7 Days to Die 1.0 at the same time as streamers feels like discrimination for people with severe mental health issues, especially those who don't fit into the mold of the current gaming industry's landscape.
We can't be social bees. I simply do not have that emotional and mental resilience or patience. To be frank, most of us play games for either game-play or story and usually dislike multiplayer because we don't like humans in general and literally avoid social contact as a whole. To us, the pleasure of gaming does not reside in competition AT ALL.
It's all about total immersion in our own bubble, or sometimes, and to a very limited degree and in small doses, cooperation with very close friends in multiplayer. (When it doesn't result in fights, arguments, misunderstandings or them playing / building in a way that's incompatible to yours or feels annoying to you).
After 2316,7+ hours played, I reckon I've got something close to a master's degree or doctorate on this game and have EVERY right to play at the same time, if not BEFORE a bunch of strangers who think they're cool because they have the budget for working webcams, donor or dev funded PC builds and a following on Twitch or other social media, and whose opinion aren't interesting to me.
I wish to make my own opinion on whether or not the update is satisfying. I would also very much prefer for those strangers not to spoil me the pleasure or surprise of discovering the changes in 1.0, which I have been actively looking for for the past 12 years.
As a long time (likely ever since Alpha 2 or 3 at the very least) and devoted follower of The Fun Pimps, I believe I have very much earned that right, by seniority of nothing else! XD
Thus, these conditions, when mixed together result in me, at 35 years old, being told by my family doctor, that I might as well make peace with the very real possibility that I may never be able to keep a steady job, much less a career. They also make it very difficult for me to be in social situations, which generate a high degree of fatigue and stress after a relatively short amount of time.
I'm also recipient of "Social Aid". Which is a form of last resort we have here in Quebec, Canada for unemployed people. I receive money from the government to survive and since I'm medically unfit for work due to a Severe Work Constraint justified by the aforementioned diagnostics and conditions. My financial situation is always precarious at best, even with the Severe Work Constraint added money.
The underlying issue here is, I'm FAR from being the only one in this situation, even those who ARE able to transcend their conditions so that they're more socially functional, can actually work, rebuild their social circles (post-depression or post-COVID), make friends again and work towards keeping and nurturing these friendships.
The financial and administrative necessities alone to be an active and recognized streamer are something must of us could never possibly hope to attain. Being able to maintain a high presence on social media, as well as buy and maintain high quality streaming and gaming equipment and a presentable environment to film / stream in is not something I am physically or mentally capable of doing.
Under these conditions, I believe not having the possibility to access 7 Days to Die 1.0 at the same time as streamers feels like discrimination for people with severe mental health issues, especially those who don't fit into the mold of the current gaming industry's landscape.
We can't be social bees. I simply do not have that emotional and mental resilience or patience. To be frank, most of us play games for either game-play or story and usually dislike multiplayer because we don't like humans in general and literally avoid social contact as a whole. To us, the pleasure of gaming does not reside in competition AT ALL.
It's all about total immersion in our own bubble, or sometimes, and to a very limited degree and in small doses, cooperation with very close friends in multiplayer. (When it doesn't result in fights, arguments, misunderstandings or them playing / building in a way that's incompatible to yours or feels annoying to you).
After 2316,7+ hours played, I reckon I've got something close to a master's degree or doctorate on this game and have EVERY right to play at the same time, if not BEFORE a bunch of strangers who think they're cool because they have the budget for working webcams, donor or dev funded PC builds and a following on Twitch or other social media, and whose opinion aren't interesting to me.
I wish to make my own opinion on whether or not the update is satisfying. I would also very much prefer for those strangers not to spoil me the pleasure or surprise of discovering the changes in 1.0, which I have been actively looking for for the past 12 years.
As a long time (likely ever since Alpha 2 or 3 at the very least) and devoted follower of The Fun Pimps, I believe I have very much earned that right, by seniority of nothing else! XD
