L'engle
yeah that's one thing that's not often spoken of about the cognitive problems:
it's hard and PAINFUL to learn new things!
every time I learned a new art program for example, it literally hurt, gave bad headaches
once upon a time I was extremely intelligent and best thing that gives is the ability to quickly learn and remember things
Intelligence is just a tool, always what you
do with it that counts, but it makes an enormous difference in how
quickly you can learn a new skill set
I really notice this with my computer art programs as I've get rusty as "bad" periods would prevent me doing art for a while, or new version would come out and I'd have to learn it
now health's s bad I cannot do art and that really, really upsets me :/
I learned so many things back in the day, dearly wish we had Youtube back then
I loved reading old encyclopaedias, reading dictionaries to find new words, even taught myself how to make medieval armour, etc etc.
I found the world endlessly fascinating
hence being forced into being a sick hermit is *INTOLERABLE* and only games, books and my dog make it otherwise.
I used to have a 3/4 day exercise system (this is way back been doing that from I was 15 to around 24 years old)
day 1 legs
day 2 stomach chest back
day 3 arms
day 4 rest
and you use light or medium weights, smoothly no jerking, for a LOT of repetitions, to build fitness and strength of your joints and tendons (which is more crucial than muscle strength and takes a lot longer to build)
correct form and smooth actions are vital for both actually doing it right and getting best effect, and not injuring yourself
Really angry at morons who told my cousin and his pal they had to "train with heaviest weights they could use to start with!" so of course they could only do couple of reps and got hurt, duh!
really should start with an empty bar or just lightest weight on each end for first week or two
and I'd walk my dogs couple of miles a day AND go shopping for family sometimes three times a day, on foot (didn't own a car and saw no reason to not ENJOY walking), hence I rarely had a pair of boots last longer than 3 months before I wore them out
So, to conflate this illness with "laziness", which they HAVE done is more of their deliberate, wicked evil
same with Eugenics SAME thing: conflate the bullshit made up concept with useless, lazy, troublesome people you want fools to think are "better off not living"
Grrrrr!
Civilization 6 is out in a moth or so, the graphics look to cartoony/simple compared to the gorgeous visuals of #5 though
but be less eye/brain strain
(Some) computer games are very beautiful art to my tastes
as a kid who loved scifi, seeing things like the amazing giant space station and the "Suicide Mission Run" into the Galactic centre, full of black holes, in Mass Effect 2 were absolutely outstanding!
*SPOILER* for end of Mass Effect 2 one of the BEST pieces of story/art, ever, IMHO
