The lighter side of ADHD
I recently finished mapping over 500 individual parking spaces of a parking lot on openstreetmaps, including every disabled space, 99 numbered reserved spaces, curb cuts, pedestrian access aisles, fire hydrants, grassy medians, trees, flowerbeds, and light poles.
It's actually been really good to get out of the house because I needed to check the numberings and exact placements of various things, to the determent of my wfh day job.
People like you are why we have good things.
Maaaaaate, this is awesome! The disabled spaces and curb cuts in particular is on my to-do list, because I am excited about how powerful openstreetmaps can be for disabled people if there is enough data there.
You are a fuckinf HERO! I moved to a rural place and there's a lot that could be done better on the maps. I've been thinking seriously about starting to do the same.
It gets really addicting, and it's definitely easy to get carried away micromapping areas you know well. I try to keep in mind that lots of micromapping doesn't really help the average user (aside from sidewalks and kerb cuts, lots of stuff I mapped like light poles just don't show up in most maps anyway), and probably the best way to get the biggest impact with the least amount of work is by plotting the locations of shops and adding details like websites and opening hours since most people use maps for navigating to POIs. Even if you can't add any details, just plotting a pin with the shop name and type still helps a lot as people using streetcomplete will be asked about further details when they are in the area where they can pop into the shop and check those things. It's a really cool way to have a symbiotic community of people plotting stuff from home using satellite imagery and people on the ground surveying and filling in more details.
Ynk, someday a midnight murder might be solved (or even prevented!) by your mapping of the streetlights, or a wheelchair user might realize the base of the light pole is going to block too much of the sidewalk and cross to the other side at the previous corner.
Wheeldestrians appreciate you!
We do things. Not because they are easy, but because we thought that they would be.
I do things bcz it turns out to be interesting, and also bcz it was a small very unnecessary and super not noticeable by any user. So, naturally, I spent 3 days working on it and perfecting it.
Every now and then I pull up a game I might want to play. Mod the hell out of it, sometimes even fixing old broken mods or writing my own. I spend ages learning all the details of how it all works and engage in the community, etc.
I never actually end up playing the game.
Do you have fun with the tinkering?
I do this with almost everything. Work hours building a spare pc with linux and make it do some cool stuff, never touch it again. Build a music studio and hardly ever record music because now I feel like there's no point xD
Tbf the old game in question takes 30 minutes to load and crashes every hour.
That's me every time I try and open FalloutNV: "I don't like this minor thing" spends two months making a mod then puts the game down again for a year or two
I spent two weeks straight preparing a Travellwe campaign, populating the sector with 46 planets with distinct cultures and questlines. I did this with no breaks so the campaign could start early, but was so burnt out after that the campaign ended up being delayed by another two weeks
Yeah, and? Your point...? So I have a debilitating habit. So, what, my boss hasn't notice yet. In fact, it probably helps me at my job, maybe, kinda, actually no. Fuck you, I don't like this. Get out of my house!
Are you willing to share the rest? There's someone I know who watched the whole series and I'd love to casually start using more and more in conversation.
In particular, any referencing the ending?
This is my Tenor account. All Blacklist Gifs are there. First three episodes have been turned into GIFs. Or, at least, GIFs that I think that I can use. Working on some more episodes now as well as episodes of other shows. I'm just going episode by episode so far.
Awesome. Perfect
Wow these are awesome!
My brother was diagnosed with ADHD when he was a kid and I wasn't because when I was young we moved constantly and it was never noticed that I exhibited the same behaviours as his by teachers since I changed schools every 5 months or so.
As an adult he's medicated and functions well and I'm not and function well too, the key difference is I function amazingly if I have his tablets.
My biggest issue which is also a bonus is there are many days when im at work that I won't stop to eat or drink. Just work flat out on whatever I'm doing ( Crane technician) people think I'm super dedicated to my job, but unfortunately I just forgot to go to the bathroom or drink water and get myself all kinds of fucked up
You see, there are risks of going on a tangent on every action, that's why it's so risky to accept "small" tasks. Who tells me I'm not going to start small and end on the 2nd case?
Me: " This game is too hard "
Also me, after failing to find mods: "guess I'll just spend a shitload of time manually editing python files or the like until I inevitably break something and then start over"
But to be fair they are spectacular.