It's different. It's going to bug anyone if their build doesn't look exactly like they want it to. Some people with serious cases of OCD feel like their rituals are actually preventing a horrible event. They may think if they don't do these things they will die, or their family will die, or possibly the world may end. It can become a very serious mental delusion that simply cannot be compared to, "Oh no, my windows are off center! I have to fix them or else it will irk me!"
lol didn't know that. I'm not much of an OCD expert.
My OCD? I hate it when my inventory is unequal. I make sure my swords first, then bow, then other tools, than food, than building materials. The rest I don't really care about.
All chests need to be organized. Unless it's a newly built house. Patterns must be compatible colors and/or blocks. Torches need to be symmetrical as well as windows and doors. Every one of my house has paintings. I hate flat plain walls. Beds need to be in the middle of a wall, if it's uneven no double bed. All gravel/cobble paths need to be the same size. I panic when I get down to 64 diamonds for some reason.. I have like 8 stacks of iron, but I hate when it gets down to like 6. All doors in my town have to be closed. It seriously bugs me when my inventory is full of crap. Finally, I always have to follow around new people in my world. I follow them for a good 20 minutes even if they're in my party. Just to make sure they don't do anything.
Actually I have a weird OCD thing going on! I have to keep my pick axe first slot sword second torches third hatchet 4th shovel 5th whatever in the others but the last slot will be map and left to that will be a building block (cobblestone)! Nice post man!
I wouldn't say i have OCD, but one thing that annoys the hell out of me is when people use a pickaxe to kill a mob or to dig up dirt or something like that. SERIOUSLY USE THE RIGHT TOOL FOR WHATEVER YOUR TRYING TO DO.
I wouldn't say i have OCD, but one thing that annoys the hell out of me is when people use a pickaxe to kill a mob or to dig up dirt or something like that. SERIOUSLY USE THE RIGHT TOOL FOR WHATEVER YOUR TRYING TO DO.
Digging dirt with a pick is just wasteful. But, if I don't have a weapon, I'm going to use a pick/axe/shovel/whatever. It takes way too long to kill things by hand.
I wouldn't say i have OCD, but one thing that annoys the hell out of me is when people use a pickaxe to kill a mob or to dig up dirt or something like that. SERIOUSLY USE THE RIGHT TOOL FOR WHATEVER YOUR TRYING TO DO.
True OCD is really NOT about what other people do that irks you. It's about what you feel that you must do... that you can't stop yourself from doing even when all logic and common sense is telling you that you should stop doing it. Do you allow yourself to die at the hands of a mob just because your sword breaks? Me, I'd trying beating a monster off with a sapling if that's all I had on me at the time.
However, I'm pretty OCD about clearing away all the leaves when I cut down trees. Even though I know that 9.9 times out of 10, the leaves will degrade and disappear on their own, I seem to obsess about that odd time when there is a leftover hunk of wood hiding in the upper reaches of the tree or snowy pine leaves just not disappearing like they should. I'll stand there clearing away the leaves completely oblivious of whatever mobs are sneaking up on me. I'm also pretty adamant about fixing the water currents whenever I mine blocks from underneath the water. I've walked back to my home base from 1/2 the map away just to get a bucket.
Most of these sound closer to OCPD, not OCD. One is even a pet peeve, which when compared to both OCPD and OCD is almost trivial.
As for being OCD in minecraft... I HAVE to open and close the in-game door exactly five times before going to sleep.
Every time I make a redstone contraption that involves pistons. Yup, I have to activate each and every piston five times before I continue on.
Just as a reference for this side discussion about what is OCD, here is one link to one of several websites that describe the criteria for a diagnosis based on the Diagnostic and Statistics Manual (which is commonly used in the US): http://www.biologica...com/DSM-OCD.htm
Exact numerical rituals are indeed part of the disorder, but it is possible to not have them and still have other traits of OCD and it is possible to have excessive rituals and not be OCD (e.g. autism diagnoses also sometime involves complex ritual behaviors). Casual references made to OCD often refer to lesser impulsions people often have - like in being a "neat freak" (which, if you saw my bedroom, you would know that I am definitely NOT a neat freak).
I agree that OCD can result in siginificant impediments to quality of life and really shouldn't be made lightly of; but I think the OP was really just asking for a list of the various little things we do inside the game that don't always make complete logical sense.
I have both types of Minecraft OCD, everything has to be nice and organized, and my house needs to be even, if its not,i might to crazy, i have OCD in real life too so that doesnt help
I'm starting to break my OCD habits with symmetrical building in favor of trying to get down styles of building that look more whimsical, but there's one habit I just can't break. If I'm digging to get dirt or sand out of the landscape, I always have to get it in a way that still leaves the land looking naturally generated. Even if I wander over to an unused corner of the map. I hate landscape that isn't built on or part of a town that doesn't look natural.
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Retired StaffDigging dirt with a pick is just wasteful. But, if I don't have a weapon, I'm going to use a pick/axe/shovel/whatever. It takes way too long to kill things by hand.
True OCD is really NOT about what other people do that irks you. It's about what you feel that you must do... that you can't stop yourself from doing even when all logic and common sense is telling you that you should stop doing it. Do you allow yourself to die at the hands of a mob just because your sword breaks? Me, I'd trying beating a monster off with a sapling if that's all I had on me at the time.
However, I'm pretty OCD about clearing away all the leaves when I cut down trees. Even though I know that 9.9 times out of 10, the leaves will degrade and disappear on their own, I seem to obsess about that odd time when there is a leftover hunk of wood hiding in the upper reaches of the tree or snowy pine leaves just not disappearing like they should. I'll stand there clearing away the leaves completely oblivious of whatever mobs are sneaking up on me. I'm also pretty adamant about fixing the water currents whenever I mine blocks from underneath the water. I've walked back to my home base from 1/2 the map away just to get a bucket.
As for being OCD in minecraft... I HAVE to open and close the in-game door exactly five times before going to sleep.
Every time I make a redstone contraption that involves pistons. Yup, I have to activate each and every piston five times before I continue on.
I'm sorry, I just wanted an opportunity to use that.
Just as a reference for this side discussion about what is OCD, here is one link to one of several websites that describe the criteria for a diagnosis based on the Diagnostic and Statistics Manual (which is commonly used in the US): http://www.biologica...com/DSM-OCD.htm
... and this is the same site's list for OCPD: http://www.biologica...om/DSM-OCPD.htm
Exact numerical rituals are indeed part of the disorder, but it is possible to not have them and still have other traits of OCD and it is possible to have excessive rituals and not be OCD (e.g. autism diagnoses also sometime involves complex ritual behaviors). Casual references made to OCD often refer to lesser impulsions people often have - like in being a "neat freak" (which, if you saw my bedroom, you would know that I am definitely NOT a neat freak).
I agree that OCD can result in siginificant impediments to quality of life and really shouldn't be made lightly of; but I think the OP was really just asking for a list of the various little things we do inside the game that don't always make complete logical sense.
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