I finally found my favorite song.
They Say by Common , beat by Ye.
That beat is too good, as someone who makes beats, I aspire to make one that smooth. The lyrics themselves are like instruments too, which adds to it for me. People don’t rap like them anymore.
This has a clinical name. Revenge bedtime procrastination. And the ADHD version runs on a completely different mechanism than the neurotypical one.
A neurotypical person stays up late because they want more leisure time. The ADHD brain stays up because it spent every drop of dopamine it had on executive function during the day. Sitting in meetings, managing transitions, filtering impulses, remembering the thing you were supposed to remember. That burns through dopamine the way sprinting burns through glycogen. By 10pm the tank is empty.
But here's where it gets counterintuitive. The exhaustion is physical. The dopamine deficit is neurological. Those are two separate systems. Your muscles want sleep. Your prefrontal cortex is starving for the stimulation it was denied all day because it spent 14 hours on task-switching and impulse control instead of anything that actually felt rewarding.
The phone at midnight is the brain trying to collect what it's owed. Low-effort, high-stimulation content. Scrolling, short videos, rabbit holes. The exact profile of activity that delivers dopamine without requiring the executive function you already depleted.
The sleep researchers call this a "self-regulation failure." It's closer to a debt collection. You borrowed against your own reward system to function all day. The bill comes due at midnight. And the brain will not let you sleep until it gets paid.
A psychiatrist named Jan Fawcett tracked 954 depressed patients. He found that one symptom predicted who would die by suicide within a year, no matter how bad their depression was otherwise: losing interest in everything. Doctors call it anhedonia.
It shows up on brain scans. A small region deep in the brain called the reward center quietly stops working, and the brain releases less dopamine, the chemical that makes things feel good. Around 70 percent of people diagnosed with major depression report this loss of interest. A 2024 review in the International Journal of Neuropsychopharmacology found that patients with anhedonia are much more likely to end up with depression that doesn't respond to medication.
The most prescribed antidepressants often fall short on anhedonia. SSRIs like Prozac, Zoloft, and Lexapro mainly raise serotonin, but anhedonia is mostly a dopamine problem, so the standard prescription is aimed at the wrong chemical.
Four treatments have actual evidence. Ketamine, and a nasal spray version called esketamine approved for stubborn depression, can lift anhedonia in hours. Standard antidepressants take weeks. A 2025 paper in the journal Neuron traced this to specific changes inside the brain's reward center. Behavioral activation therapy, where patients schedule small pleasurable activities and force themselves to do them even when they don't feel like it, slowly teaches the reward center to fire again. Exercise releases a brain-repair protein called BDNF that helps rebuild dopamine pathways over weeks. And a treatment called TMS, which uses magnetic pulses on the front of the brain, has shown strong results in recent trials for anhedonia specifically.
There is also a newer research area called digital anhedonia. Brain scans of heavy social media users show the reward center lights up strongly for notifications and feeds but stays quiet for ordinary pleasures like food, conversations, and walks. The reward bar gets reset so high that normal life cannot reach it.
The brain heals. With proper treatment, many people improve within weeks, and the reward system can rebuild over months. So losing interest in everything is treatable. And the first medication doctors usually prescribe is rarely the one that fixes it.
"as pessoas só estão vendo 24 horas de Nürburgring pra torcer pro Verstappen"
Eu na sala de casa vendo o Dacia Logan voltando pra pista com os mecânicos tendo que fazer ele pegar no tranco:
You aren’t going to be able to maintain long term relationships, platonic or romantic if you aren’t prepared to talk about what’s bothering you and give people a chance to address and fix it. Nor give them the chance to tell you when you do something to them.
in order to become a better person, you must first realize how horrible you really are. not in the dramatic sense, but in the quiet ways you sabotage yourself, repeat unhealthy patterns, hurt people who care about you, or tolerate what wounds you. you cannot grow if you keep pretending you're innocent in the story you created.
@PauseMidnight@Executor250624 Exactly. A jump. Through air. An air assassination. If you want a better one please actually go play the game and do it yourself instead of being ignorant and saying it wasn’t in the first one when I’ve provided two examples of it as is after waking up from a nap.
@PauseMidnight@Executor250624 Clip of me pulling it off while fighting a group of enemies after unlocking Damascus. You have no argument. I’m not even used to these controls due to spending a lot more time playing AC4 lately than any others and I still did it.
@PauseMidnight@Executor250624 Clip 2 of me doing it in the same fight. Plus the intro literally shows him do it twice as well. 4 examples, will you still be wilfully ignorant to it?
@PauseMidnight@Executor250624 Clip of me pulling it off while fighting a group of enemies after unlocking Damascus. You have no argument. I’m not even used to these controls due to spending a lot more time playing AC4 lately than any others and I still did it.
@SFrank97044@czaroffujinisle@Freddy0@MandyKnowsDC@boldmango As someone who’s driven a Silverado for work, you literally can’t see them at a light you have to stop either with guessing or just at a point far away where you can see them, which usually leaves a massive gap in between you and the car. They dont need to be so big.
@mrbvdon@wakeupsavv@Raindropsmedia1 Dude you’ve never been in one your argument is invalid. I’ve been in one, even with an empty trailer they have massive brake distances due to their size and weight. Let’s not sit and act like she could have done much better with a fully loaded trailer. She did everything right.
Isn't it funny how paid trained "professionals" are allowed to be completely unhinged but innocent civilians are expected to be calm and follow orders of someone threatening to murder them for no reason?
@PauseMidnight@Executor250624 What medium are they falling through. Air yes? Air assassination. They introduced air assassination in AC1, it simply was not as exaggerated as later AC games. You literally watched a former dev talk about it and refuse to accept they had it in the first game due to…feelings?